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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Tuesday,
January 31, 2012
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1:00pm
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PubMed
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Tompkins-McCaw Library
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Wednesday,
February 8, 2012
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Noon
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Film Screening: Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality
Making Us Sick?: In Sickness and in Wealth
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Hunton Student Center
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Thursday,
February 9, 2012
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10:00am
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Library Orientation
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Tompkins-McCaw Library
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Friday,
February 10, 2012
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3:00pm
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Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty
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Cabell Library
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Tuesday,
February 14, 2012
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Noon
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Community Health Education Center Heart Health
Program
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VCU Medical Center Gateway
Building - Ground Floor
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Thursday,
February 16, 2012
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10:00am
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Complementary & Alternative Medicine
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Online
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Tuesday,
February 21, 2012
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2:00pm
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Finding Health Statistics Online
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Tompkins-McCaw Library
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Wednesday,
February 22, 2012
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10:00am
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PubMed
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Hunton Student Center
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Monday,
February 27, 2012
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Noon
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Library Orientation
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Tompkins-McCaw Library
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Tuesday,
February 28, 2012
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11:00am
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Finding Images
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Online
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Wednesday,
February 29, 2012
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1:00pm
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RefWorks
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Tompkins-McCaw Library
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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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