Tuesday, May 01, 2007

No more updates for this blog

Dear Blog users,

This will be my last update to the Northeast Georgia Hospital Librarian Blog. My last day is today, May 1. I will leave this blog up because most of the people who use this blog use it to gain access to the library resources off of NGHS campus. The links should all be in working order. Unfortunately, the next NGHS Health Sciences Librarian must create his/her own blog because of password issues. I hope that the new librarian can take the information that he/she needs to make another blog.

I have enjoyed working for NGHS.

Thanks,
The Northeast Georgia Hospital Librarian

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

"Turn of Shift" Breakfast at the library

What: "Turn of Shift Breakfast"
Where: NGHS Health Sciences Library, basement of the Ocie Pope Educational Building
When: Wednesday, April 11 6am-10am
Why: In celebration of Medical Information Day!

Come find out about the new library technology, online catalog, and online resources. We will have free food, free books and door prizes.

More New Books

New Books:

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 2004.

JCHAHO: Survey Readiness Handbook, 2006.

The Carrot Principle, 2007.

NGHS Employees and Physicians can check out books for 3 weeks and students and visitors can check out books for 2 weeks.

Friday, March 02, 2007

More Book Additions

The NGHS Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce the addition of the following new books:

Administration:

Doing More with Less: Lean Thinking and Patient Safety in Health Care
Infection Control Manual for Hospitals, 2006

Consumer Health:

Caring for Kids, 2006.
Mayo Clinic: Book of Alternative Medicine, 2007
Mayo Clinic Plan: 10 essential steps to a better body and healthier life, 2006

Spanish Consumer Health:

Bilingual Babycare / Guía bilingue para padres y niñeras, 2004
Coma y Combata la diabetes, 2005
La Receta del Gran Médico para un corazón saludable, 2005

Nursing:
ER Facts: Made Incredibly Quick, 2007
ICU/CCU Facts: Made Incredibly Quick, 2007
Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses, 2007
Loss and Bereavement in Childbearing, 2006
NCLEX-RN Examination Review, 2005
Oxford Handbook of Midwifery. 2006

Oncology:
Exercise Therapy and the Cancer Patient, 2005
Cancer Fitness, 2004

Physician:
The Continuing Professional Development of Physicians, 2003
Pocket Guide to 50 Unusual Symptoms, 2007

Employees and affiliates can check out materials for 3 weeks. Students, Patients, Families, and Visitors can check out materials for 2 weeks.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

More Books Added to the Library

EMT:

EMT Prehospital Care, 2007.

Internal Medicine:

Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review, 2006-2007.

Nursing:

Critical Care Nursing Reference, 2006.
Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice, 2006.

Nutrition:

Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, 2005.

Friday, February 02, 2007

New Books February 2007

The Health Sciences Library is proud to announce its newest arrivals in the below fields (alphabetical). More books will follow...

You will find our books in our online catalog through Health Sciences Library Link or the Northeast Georgia Hospital Librarian Blog. Employees can check them out for 3 weeks. Everyone else can check them out for 2 weeks.

A Selection of New Books for the
Northeast Georgia Health Sciences Library
February 2007

Allergy:

Washingtons Manual for Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, 2003

Cardiovascular:

Critical Pathways in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2007.

EKG Plain and Simple, 2007.

Exercise and the Heart, 2006

Endocrinology:

Atlas of Diabetes, 2006

Evidence-Based Endocrinology, 2007.

The Nurses Guide to Teaching Diabetes and Self-Management, 2007

ICU:

Avoiding Common ICU Errors, 2007.

The ICU Book, 2007.

Medical Coding:

Understanding Medical Coding: A Comprehensive Guide, 2006

Medicine:

The Clinician’s Guide to Medical Writing, 2005.

Nervous System:

Brain Injury Medicine, 2007.

Stroke Treatment and Prevention, 2005.

Nursing:

AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, 2006.

Basic Steps in Planning Nursing Research, 2006.

Best Practices: Evidence Based Nursing Procedures, 2007.

Complementary/ Alternative Therapies in Nursing, 2006.

Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual, 2007.

Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking, 2003.

Maternity, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing, 2007.

Mosby’s Handbook of Patient Education, 2006.

Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation, 2005

Nurses 5 minute Clinical Consult: Treatments, 2007.

Nursing Ethics, 2006.

Professional Issues in Midwifery, 2007.

Understanding Nursing Research, 2006

Occupational Therapy:

Conceptual Foundations of Occupational Therapy, 2004

Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy, 2003

Oncology:

Oncology: Evidence-based Approach, 2006

Orthopedics, Rehabilitation, and Musculoskeletal System:

American College of Sports Medicine’s Guideline for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 2006

Handbook of Fractures, 2006

Joint Structure and Function, 2005

Physical Rehabilitation, 2007

Rehabilitation Specialists Handbook, 2005

Paramedic:

Mosby’s Paramedic Refresher and Review: A Case Studies Approach, 2007

Patient Education and Consumer Health:


The Practice of Patient Education, 2007

The Stroke Book, 2005

Pediatrics:

Pediatric Obesity, 2007

Pharmacology:

Medication Errors, 2006

Reference:

Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, 2006

Respiratory:

Evidence-Based Respiratory Medicine, 2005

Teaching Atlas of Chest Imaging, 2006

Online Continuing Medical Education/ Continuing Education Links

Please click here to see an online version of CME/ CE Tool Kit

Please click here to see the print version of the CME/ CE Tool Kit

Internet Class for GNA and Continuing Education Credit

For NGHS employees:

When:
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

What:
Surfin’ Smart: Healthcare Resources via the Internet

Objectives:
1. Analyze health resources and research strategies available through the Health Sciences Library and the Internet such as Pubmed, GaIN, CINAHL, and Medlineplus.
2. Practice navigating and searching on the databases.

Time:
11:30am-12:30pm

Who:
Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

Contact:
library *at* nghs =dot= com

Friday, January 05, 2007

CME January 12, 2007

I will be presenting

"Super Searcher: Pubmed for the experts, locating online CME's and quality patient education resources"

on Friday, January 12, 2007 at NGHS. CME credit will be awarded to hospital employees and affiliates. Please contact the library for more information at
library *at* nghs =dot= com

Monday, December 11, 2006

Happy Holidays!

Here are some quality informative websites to help you have a safe and happy holiday season.

Child Safety Tips:
American Academy of Pediatrics

Healthy Holiday Eating Tips and Recipes:

CDC: Holidays the Healthy Way
FDA: Food Safety Holiday Tips
MedlinePlus.gov: Tempting Holiday Treats Can Be Hard to Swallow
University of Michigan: Healthy Eating and Recipes
WebMD: Top 10 Healthy Tips

Healthy Mental Health:

American Psychiatric Association: Healthy Minds
MedlinePlus: Coping with the Holiday Blues

Holiday Exercises:

American Heart Association: Tips for Healthy Heart Holiday Season

Have a safe and happy holiday season!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Need some healthy recipes for your Thanksgiving Dinner?

Check out:

American Diabetes Association

Harvard Health Publication

The Kidney Foundation of Canada

New Books November 2006

The Health Sciences Library is proud to present the New Book Arrivals:

Antibiotic Essentials. Physician's Press. 2002.

BMJ: Clinical Evidence Consise. 2003

Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia, 2006.

Patient Satisfaction. 2006.

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide. 2001.

NGHS employees can check out books for 3 weeks and students and consumers can check out books for 2 weeks.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

October is Medical Librarian's Month

Come Celebrate Medical Librarian's Month at the Library!

When: Thursday, October 26, 2006 from 8am-4:30pm

Where: The NGHS Health Sciences Library located in the basement of the Ocie Pope Educational Building at the Main Campus of the NGHS

Why: Find reliable, up-to-date information, take home Free books from the Free book cart, and enjoy Free food and drinks

For more information, email the library at library *at* nghs =dot= com

New Books October 2006

New Books for October, 2006

BRAND NEW: Consumer Health Collection
American Academy of Pediatrics: New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding. 2006.
American Diabetes Association: Complete Guide to Diabetes. 2003.
American Heart Association: To your Health! 2001.
Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health. 2004.
100 Questions & Answers: About Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects. 2005.
100 Questions & Answers: About Caring for Family of Friends with Cancer. 2005.
Mayo Clinic: Guide to Women's Cancers. 2005.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Boston Women's Health Book Collection. 2005.
Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. 2002.

Health Professionals
Acute & Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts. 2006.
American College of Physicians (ACP) Medicine. 2006.
Breastfeeding Handbook for Physicians. 2006.
Neofax. 2004.
Pediatric Dosage Handbook. 1998-1999.
Pediatric Dosage Handbook. 2002-2003.

Leadership
Team Building Activities for Busy Managers. 2004.
The Big Book of Leadership Games. 2004.
The 8th Habit From Effectiveness to Greatness. 2004.


Tuesday, October 03, 2006

New Books September 2006

Anatomy:
Rohen, Yokochi, and Lütjen-Drecoll. Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body. 2006.

Arthritis and Allied Conditions:
Koopman and Moreland. Arthritis and Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology. 2005.
Alexander and Knight. 100 Questions & Answers About Osteoporosis and Osteopenia. 2006.

Brain:
Siles. Brain, Heal Thyself. 2006.

Cancer and Oncology:
Kirby, Partin, Feneley, and Parsons. Prostate Cancer: Principles and Practice. 2006.
Kochman. The Clinician's Guide to Gastrointestinal Oncology. 2005.

Cardiology:
Beasley and West. Understanding 12-Lead EKGs: A Practical Approach. 2006.
Goldberger. Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach. 2006.

Electronic Health Records:
Gartee. Electronic Health Records: Understanding and Using Computerized Medical Records. 2007.

Ethics:
Harman. Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information. 2006.
Cottone and Tarvydas. Counseling Ethics and Decision Making. 2007.

Gastrointestinal:
Silen. Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. 2005.
Ginsberg, Kochman, Norton, and Gostout. Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2005
.

Laboratory Test and Physical Examination:
Bates. Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. 2007.
Pagana. Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests. 2006.

Nursing:
Fischback. Nurse's Quick Reference to Common Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests. 2006.

Pneumonia:
Fein. Diagnosis and Management of Pneumonia and Other Respiratory Infections. 2006.

Spanish:
Fraser-Molina. ¿Qué le duele? Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals. 2004.
Harvey. Spanish for Health Care Professionals. 2000.
McElroy. Spanish-English English-Spanish Medical Dictionary. 2005.

Monday, July 31, 2006

CINAHL at Northeast Georgia Health Sciences Library

Coming tomorrow, August 1, 2006:

The NGHS Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce an expanded version of CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health), called CINAHL Plus with Full Text. CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. CINAHL with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals and provides full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also

Available on-campus through Health Sciences Library Link or off-campus through http://search.ebscohost.com

PLEASE NOTE ONE USER CAN BE ON CINAHL AT A TIME. If you are rejected with your username and password, please wait 5 minutes and try again. If this persists, please contact the librarian at library *at* nghs =dot= com.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Continuing Education Opportunity

Attention NGHS Nursing and Allied Health Professionals

Come learn about library resources and take:

"Surfin' Smart: Healthcare Resources via the Internet" on Wednesday, August 9 8:30-9:30 am in classroom 1-1. Please register by emailing library *at* nghs =dot= com. 1.2 contact hours will be offered.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Free books, anyone?

The Health Sciences Library at NGHS has Free Books on nursing, medical, pharmacology, and allied health. Please visit the library and help yourself to the free books located on two library carts labeled FREE BOOKS. Enjoy!

Monday, June 19, 2006

Children Health Links Added

Thank you for your suggestions.
Please notice on the right-hand side of the screen (you may have to scroll down), there are now links for children's health.

Monday, June 12, 2006

More Books

Drugs and Pharmacology:

"Physicians' Desk Reference" 2006.

End-of-Life Care:

Kuebler, Kim K.; Patricia H. Berry; Debra E. Heidrich. "End-of-Life Care Clinical Practice Guidelines" 2002.

Heart:

Shivkumar, Kalyanam; James Weis; Greg Fonarow; Jagat Narula. "Atlas of Electrophysiology in Heart Failure" 2005.

More Books

Drugs and Pharmacology:

"Physicians' Desk Reference" 2006.

End-of-Life Care:

Kuebler, Kim K.; Patricia H. Berry; Debra E. Heidrich. "End-of-Life Care Clinical Practice Guidelines" 2002.

Heart:

Shivkumar, Kalyanam; James Weis; Greg Fonarow; Jagat Narula. "Atlas of Electrophysiology in Heart Failure" 2005.

Monday, May 15, 2006

New Books May 2006

Cancer and Oncology:
Abbruzzese, James L.; Douglas B. Evans; Christopher G. Willett; Cecilia Fenoglio-Preiser. "Gastrointestinal Oncology" 2004.

Bland, Kirby I. and Edward M. Copeland. "The Breast" Volumes 1 and 2. 2004.

Harrison, Louis B.; Roy B. Sessions; Waun Ki Hong. "Head and Neck Cancer" 2nd ed. 2004.

Drugs and Pharmacology:
AHFS. "Drug Information Essentials" 2005-2006.

Blumenthal, Mark. "The American Botanical Council Clinical Guide to Herbs" 2003.

Pharmacist's Letters. "Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database" 2006.

End-of-Life Care
Kinzbrunner, Barry; Neal j Weinreb; Joel S. Policzer. "20 Commonn Problems End-of-Life Care" 2002.

Kuebler, Kim K.; Patricia H. Berry; Debra E. Heidrich. "End-of-Life Care Clinical Practice Guidelines. 2002.

Ethics:
Edge, Raymond and John Randall Groves. "Ethics of Health Care" 3rd ed. 2006.

Genetics:
Harper, Peter. "Practical Genetic Counselling" 6th ed. 2004.

Nussbaum, Robert L.; Roderick R McInnes; Huntington F Willard. "Genetics in Medicine" 6th ed. 2004.

Gynecology and Obstetrics:
Gabbe, Steven G.; Jennifer R. Niebyl; Joe Leigh Simpson. "Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies" 4th ed. 2002.

Speroff, Leon and Marc A. Fritz. "Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility" 7th ed. 2005.

Heart:
Baim, Donald S. "Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention" 2006.

Fuster, Valentin; R. Wayne Alexander; Robert A. O'Rourke. "Hurst's The Heart" 11ed. 2004.

Zipes, Douglas P.; Peter Libby; Robert O. Bonow; Eugene Braunwald. "Braunwald's Heart Disease" 7th ed. 2005.

Imaging:
Eisenberg, Ronald. "Clinical Imaging" 4th ed. 2003.

Intensive Care Medicine:
Irwin, Richard S. and James M. Rippe. "Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine" 2003.

Nursing:
Cohen, Elaine L. and Toni G. Cesta. "Nursing Case Management: From Essentials to Advanced Practice Applications" 4th ed. 2005.

Woods, Susan L. ; Erika S. Sivatajan Froelicher; Sandra Underhill Motzer; Elizabeth J. Bridges. "Cardiac Nursing" 5th ed. 2005.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
Handsfield, Hunter. "Color Atlas & Synopsis of Sexually Transmitted Diseases" 2001.

Surgery:
Green, David P.; Robert N. Hotchkiss; William Pederson; Scott W. Wolfe. "Green's Operative Hand Surgery" 5th ed. Volumes 1 and 2. 2005.

Grillo, Hermes C. "Surgery of the Trachea and Bronchi" 2004.

Terrorism:
Keyes, Daniel C. "Medical Response to Terrorism Preparedness and Clinical Practice" 2005.

Wound Care:
Hess, Kathy Thomas. "Wound Care" 5th ed. 2005.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

About me and this blog

Hi! I am the Medical Librarian at Northeast Georgia Health System and Foothills Area Health Education Center.

The purpose of this blog is to share the Health Science Library's free resources and services with the Northeast Georgia Health System community including health professionals, NGHS employees, patients, friends, families, visitors, and the general public.

My contact information is:
library *at* nghs =dot= com