Well February has arrived and just as things are picking up around campus as the heart of the semester quickly arrives, things at the library are also getting a bit busier as there are all sorts of things going on.  Keep in mind that if you should need any help with research, assignments that myself and the other librarians are here to help.   Some things that have changed or are coming up since my last entry are below. 

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Improvements to the VCU Nursing Research Guide

In an effort to insure that the nursing research guide is as useful as possible, over the break I reviewed the guide and tried to determine how to improve the layout in order to make it more useful and to provide more content/resources that would be useful.   In my efforts to improve the guide I used the ICIRN Essential Nursing Resources, 26th Edition. By using this resource, as well as feedback from users, I hope that you will find the guide to be more useful and utilize it more.   If you ever have any suggestions as to how the guide could be improved or something you need from me in order to help you, please do not hesitate to let me know. 

Some of the Improvements made to the guide include:

Clinical Rotation Resources - on the front page I have included some resources that should help when performing pre-assessments during clinical rotations.   These resources include drug monographs and information on drug interactions. There is also information on interventions, diseases and conditions.

Statistics - there is a new tab at the top of the page that is really a consolidation of the previous two tabs that addressed this topic.  This section should enable you to find statistics on various diseases, their prevalence in the population, as well as other health related data.

Grants - this tab provides information on grant resources that could help fund research projects.   There is also information on VCU resources that are in place to help support research.

Video - this tab now contains links to the New England Journal of Medicine Clinical Videos as well links to Lippincott's Nursing Health Assessment Video Series and Counseling and Therapy in Video, which are two video series that the library has that can be streamed over the internet.  In order to access any of these videos you will have to log in with your eID and password. 

Misc. Tab - this tab is composed of information related to informatics, consumer health information resources, as well as a links to useful blogs/discussion boards that could be useful in keeping up with issues and developments in the field of nursing. 

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"Whetting Your Appetite for Research" - Brown Bag Series   

Managing the Money

Learn how to work with the Office of Special Programs and manage your grant funds.

                     February 23, 2012, 12 - 1pm  Tompkins-McCaw Library, Room 109

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Workshops of interest this Month:

If you or someone you know needs some help with any of these databases, please let them know. All of these take place at TML unless otherwise indicated.

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New Books and other Resources  (Electronic and On the Shelf)

Witches, midwives & nurses: a history of women healers / Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English (Electronic Resource).

Internet Resources R692 .E35 2010eb

Translation of evidence into nursing and health care practice / [edited by] Kathleen M. White, Sharon Dudley-Brown.

Tompkins-McCaw Library RT42 .T73 2012 Normal Loan 

Ross and Wilson anatomy and physiology in health and illness/ Anne Waugh

Tompkins-McCaw Library RT69 .W48 2010 Normal Loan 

Design, evaluation, and translation of nursing interventions / Souraya Sidani, Carrie Jo Braden.

Tompkins-McCaw Library RT81.5 .S56 2011 Normal Loan 

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