Swilley Library Nursing Notes

Library Orientation Video for Nursing

2011-04-13T12:16:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this library orientation to library services for nursing students.

Take the Survey and Win!

2011-04-06T16:26:00.000-07:00

2011 Library Improvement Survey!

The Library is always looking for ways to improve spaces and services. We are seeking input from campus constituents who may or may not be library users. Please tell us what you think.
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UpToDate Online Trial

2010-05-25T17:35:00.000-07:00

From now until July 31st, Mercer University has TRIAL access to UpToDate Online accessible anywhere!

Here a few highlights:

-UpToDate is an good background resource for faculty and students interested in updating their knowledge base. For each clinical issue, an expert in the field reviews the topic, synthesizes information, summarizes key findings, and provides detailed, practical recommendations for patient care.

-UpToDate contains discussions of medical topics such as internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn and family medicine.

-Each review article is written by an expert in the field being discussed, and is designed to provide a quick way to get up to speed.

-UpToDate includes hundreds of patient information handouts; these topics go through peer review and constant updating as with professional-level topics.

-It also includes drug information from Lexi-Comp.

We are assessing interest from the Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Please let us know what you think. Leave a comment, now!

Note that because of expense, this resource MAY be available on campus only, from a single terminal at the library. The licensing and pricing must be evaluated.

Rehabilitation Reference Center™ and SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text

2010-03-22T14:17:00.000-07:00

From now until April 14th, Mercer University has trial access to Rehabilitation Reference Center™ and SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text accessible anywhere!

Rehabilitation Reference Center™
Rehabilitation Reference Center™ (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides physical therapists, occupational therapists and rehabilitation students with the best available evidence for their information needs. Content in RRC includes more than 300 Clinical Reviews, more than 150 research instruments, information from AHFS on over 11,700 drugs and their manufacturers, more than 9,800 exercise images, key reference handbooks, guidelines from the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, nearly 1,500 relevant patient education topics in both English & Spanish, and news and clinical updates.

Clinical Reviews are clinically-organized summaries on rehabilitation topics incorporating the best available evidence through rigorous systematic surveillance. All Clinical Reviews are written and reviewed by EBSCO’s team of professional physical, occupational, and speech therapists. Each review is organized in an easy-to-find, workflow-driven format and includes:

* Assessment/Plan of Care
* Causes & Risk Factors
* Desired Outcomes/Outcome Measures
* Examination
* Indexing/Metadata Description
* Maintenance or Prevention
* Overall Contraindications/Precautions

RRC is designed to deliver current valid and relevant information at the point-of-care so that rehabilitation specialists can build customized treatment regimens for patients, using the best available evidence.

SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text
SPORTDiscus™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 490 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, 337 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Biomedical Reference Collection™.

This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.

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New Health Sciences Books and More...

2009-11-02T12:31:00.000-08:00

Arlene's Top Pick:

RC848.H425 H467 2009.
Hepatitis C methods and protocols / edited by Hengli Tang. Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2009.

With the development of robust cell-culturing systems capable of Hepatitis C Virus replication and infection, the past decade has witnessed an explosion of innovative research directed at understanding HCV biology in the context of the authentic replicative cycle of the virus. By providing a compilation of cutting-edge research techniques currently in use in HCV labs worldwide, Hepatitis C: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition fully updates the previous edition to reflect this progress which promises to unlock the remaining vital information regarding this human pathogen and its interactions. (Read more at Amazon.com.)

R118.6 .G74 2006.
Greenhalgh, Trisha.
How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh.
Malden, Mass. : BMJ Books/Blackwell Pub., 2006.

R119 .D58 2009.
Divan, Aysha.
Communication skills for the biosciences : a graduate guide / Aysha Divan.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

R727.36 .L96 2008.
Lynch, Holly Fernandez.
Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / by Holly
Fernandez Lynch.
Cambridge : MIT Press, c2008.

R746.G4 H57 2009.
The history of the Mercer University School of Medicine, 1965/2007 / edited by
Martin L. Dalton Jr.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2009.

RA418.5.T73 C853 2008.
Cultural competence in health education and health promotion / editors, Miguel
A. P{226}erez, Raffy R. Luquis.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2008.

RA771.5 .C75 2004.
Critical issues in rural health / edited by Nina Glasgow, Lois Wright Morton,
Nan E. Johnson.
Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., c2004.

RA977.A1 A46.
American Hospital Association guide to the health care field.
[Chicago, Ill.] : The Association, [c1974-

RA1211 .C296 2008.
Casarett and Doull's toxicology : the basic science of poisons / editor, Curtis
D. Klaassen.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

RB38.2 .P337 2009.
Pagana, Kathleen Deska, 1952-
Mosby's diagnostic and laboratory test reference / Kathleen Deska Pagana,
Timothy James Pagana.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2009.

RC848.H425 H467 2009.
Hepatitis C methods and protocols / edited by Hengli Tang.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2009.

RC925.7 .C53 2000.
Clarkson, Hazel M.
Musculoskeletal assessment : joint range of motion and manual muscle strength /
Hazel M. Clarkson ; photography by Jacques Hurabielle ; illustrations by Heather
K. Doy and Joy D. Marlowe.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2000.

RC925.7 .R44 2005.
Reese, Nancy Berryman.
Muscle and sensory testing / Nancy Berryman Reese ; contributors, Venita
Lovelace-Chandler, Gary L. Soderberg, Reta J. Zabel ; photographer, Michael A.
Morris.
St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Saunders, c2005.

RC932 .O43 1999.
Ombregt, Ludwig.
Atlas of orthopedic examination of the peripheral joints / Ludwig Ombregt,
Pierre Bisschop.
Edinburgh ; New York : W.B. Saunders, 1999.

RC953.7 .D78 2009.
Drug-related problems in the elderly.
[S.l.] : Springer, 2009.

RD734 .H66 1976.
Hoppenfeld, Stanley, 1934-
Physical examination of the spine and extremities / Stanley Hoppenfeld, in
collaboration with Richard Hutton ; medical ill. by Hugh Thomas.
New York : Appleton, c1976.

RD734 .L68 2008.
Loudon, Janice K. (Janice Kaye), 1959-
The clinical orthopedic assessment guide / Janice Loudon, Marcie Swift,
Stephania Bell.
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2008.

RD734 .N67 2009.
Norkin, Cynthia C.
Measurement of joint motion : a guide to goniometry / Cynthia C. Norkin, D.
Joyce White ; photographs by Jocelyn Greene Molleur and Lucia Grochowska
Littlefield ; illustrations by Timothy Wayne Malone ; technical advisor, George
Kalem, III.
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, c2009.

RG136 .J8813 2008.
J{232}utte, Robert.
Contraception : a history / Robert J{232}utte ; translated by Vicky Russell.
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2008.

RG528 .P74 2008.
Prescribing in pregnancy / edited by Peter Rubin, Margaret Ramsay.
Malden, Mass ; Oxford : Blackwell/BMJ, 2008.

RM151 .W55 2003.
Williams, Adrian, 1963-
Transdermal and topical drug delivery from theory to clinical practice / Adrian
Williams.
London ; Chicago : Pharmaceutical Press, 2003.

RM170 .A445 2010.
Algozzine, Gary J.
Critical care intravenous infusion drug handbook / Gary J. Algozzine, Robert
Algozzine, Deborah J. Lilly.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby/Elsevier, c2010.

RM301.28 .B38 2009.
Basic & clinical pharmacology / edited by Bertram G. Katzung ; associate editors,
Susan B. Masters, Anthony J. Trevor.
New York : McGraw-Hill Medical ; London : McGraw-Hill [distributor], c2009.

RM301.3.G45 C38 2006.
Catania, Michael G., 1968-
An A-Z guide to pharmacogenomics / Michael G. Catania.
Washington, DC : AACC Press, c2006.

RM301.3.G45 H435 2004.
Hedgecoe, Adam.
The politics of personalised medicine : pharmacogenetics in the clinic / Adam
Hedgecoe.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

RM301.3.G45 H86 2005.
Humma, Larisa M.
Lexi-Comp's pharmaco-genomics handbook / Larisa M. Cavallari, Vicki L. Ellingrod,
Jill M. Kolesar.
Hudson, Ohio : Lexi-Comp, c2005.

RM301.4 .B536 2008.
Biopharmaceutics applications in drug development / edited by Rajesh Krishna and
Lawrence Yu.
New York, NY : Springer, c2008.

RM315 .H52 2009.
Herzberg, David L. (David Lowell).
Happy pills in America : from Miltown to Prozac / David Herzberg.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

RM388 .C635 2008.
Colbert, Bruce J.
Integrated cardiopulmonary pharmacology / Bruce J. Colbert, Barb J. Kennedy.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008.

RM701 .G84 2003.
Guide to physical therapist practice.
Alexandria, Va. : American Physical Therapy Association, c2003.

RM701 .K46 1983.
Kendall, Florence Peterson, 1910-
Muscles, testing and function / Florence Peterson Kendall, Elizabeth Kendall
McCreary ; illustrations by Ranice W. Crosby ... [et al.] ; photographs by
Charles C. Krause, Jr.
Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1983.

RS92 .S638 2010.
Social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care / edited by Nathaniel M.
Rickles, Albert I. Wertheimer, Mickey C. Smith.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2010.

RS92.W38 2008.
Waterfield, Jon.
Community pharmacy handbook / Jon Waterfield.
London ; Chicago : Pharmaceutical Press, 2008.

RS100.3 .M356 2009.
Managed care pharmacy practice / [edited by] Robert P. Navarro.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2009.

RS122 .K74 2004.
Kremer, Michael, 1964-
Strong medicine : creating incentives for pharmaceutical research on neglected
diseases / Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.

RS160 .T75 2009.
Evans, William Charles.
Trease and Evans pharmacognosy / William Charles Evans.
Edinburgh ; New York : Saunders/Elsevier, 2009.

RS201.S85 A45 2008.
Allen, Loyd V.
Suppositories / Loyd V Allen, Dennis B Worthen, and Bill Mink.
London : Pharmaceutical Press, 2008.

RS403 .F59 2006.
Florence, A. T. (Alexander Taylor).
Physicochemical principles of pharmacy / A.T. Florence and D. Attwood.
London : Chicago : Pharmaceutical Press, 2006.

RS424 .H36 2009.
Handbook of stability testing in pharmaceutical development : regulations,
methodologies, and best practices / Kim Huynh-Ba, editor.
New York : Springer, c2009.

RS431.A64 N68 2006.
Novel anticancer agents : strategies for discovery and clinical testing /
editors Alex A. Adjei, John K. Buolamwini.
Amsterdam ; London : Academic, c2006.

RT41 .P46 2010.
Perry, Anne Griffin.
Clinical nursing skills & techniques / Anne Griffin Perry, Patricia A. Potter ;
section editor, Wendy Ostendorf.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby Elsevier, c2010.

RT62 .H45 2009.
Hill, Signe S.
Success in practical/vocational nursing : from student to leader / Signe S. Hill,
Helen Stephens Howlett.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2009.

RT82 .N874 2009.
Nursing today : transition and trends / [edited by] JoAnn Zerwekh, Jo Carol
Claborn.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2009.

Changes for APA Style Manual (6th ed.)

2009-08-11T07:13:00.001-07:00

A few changes were made to the APA Style Manual for the 6th edition. You can read about them here.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Trial

2009-02-07T08:33:00.000-08:00

From now until February 26th, Mercer University has trial access to ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source. You will need a password to access this trial.

How to find passwords for trial databases:

1. Go to our Library passwords page

2. Look for the section, Library Passwords for Databases

3. Enter the current GALILEO password in the search box.

4. Look for the section, Trial Databases

5. The password is listed below the link to the ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source home page.

Now you are ready to search....

Go to the ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source home page, enter the password, and start searching!

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source contains

evidence-based nursing content from The Joanna Briggs Institute, including Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets.
multicultural reports from CultureVision, covering over 30 ethnicities and 11 religions to aid with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to their beliefs and practices.
Study Paths. Click here for a demonstration of Study Paths.

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NUR 321: Required Nursing Orientation & Training

2009-01-24T09:11:00.000-08:00

Attention NUR 321 students:

Go to the Library Training schedule and sign up for one of the required nursing orientation and training sessions or to see scheduled times. Space is limited so sign up right away.

Remember...

First come first served.

Do not erase another student's name.

Everyone must sign up.

These skills will be used in the assignments.

For additional information or if you have questions, please contact Arlene Desselles.

2009 Presidential Inauguration Live Campus Broadcast

2009-01-14T08:55:00.000-08:00

On behalf of the Swilley Library, I cordially invite the Nursing faculty, staff, and students to join us in the campus viewing of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. For those who have a Facebook account, you can RSVP at the Swilley Library - Mercer Atlanta Facebook page.

Come join the campus community in watching this historic Inauguration on Tuesday, January 20th in the Library lounge area. Watch the Inauguration on a large projection screen. All are welcome. Linger afterward to join in on a group discussion about the Inaugural events and other topics.

January 20, 2009
11:15 am — Pre-Inaugural get-together
Noon — Live broadcast of the ceremony
12:30 pm — Post-Inaugural gathering

Light snacks, coffee and hot chocolate will be served.

If you cannot make it to the campus event, watch live streaming video on CNN.com/live.

From CNN:On Tuesday, January 20th, watch President-elect Barack Obama become the next President of the United States on http://cnn.com/live. You can watch the live video online from anywhere with broadband access. Coverage begins at 8am EST, with the swearing-in ceremony at 12pm EST, followed immediately by Obama's inauguration address.

New Nursing Books: October 2008

2008-10-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

Arlene's Recommended Book for October

RC630 .J64 2008.

Johnson, Joyce Young. Fluids and electrolytes demystified. New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, 2008.

"Need a solid foundation in fluids and electrolytes but finding this complex subject difficult to permeate? Here's the solution! Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified makes everything so easy to understand, you'll feel like you're learning through osmosis.
Written by a nursing professor, this accessible guide explains, clearly and concisely, the key elements underlying fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and imbalances. You will learn about the various health conditions related to imbalances and get details on diagnostic testing, regulators, and treatment options. Useful charts and key terms throughout help you to remember important concepts. Complete with end-of-chapter quizzes to test your knowledge, this book will teach you the fundamentals of fluids and electrolytes in no time at all. Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this essential nursing topic. This fast and easy guide offers: Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter ; An NCLEX-style quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses ; Causes and symptoms of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base imbalance-related conditions ; Coverage of diagnostic tests and treatment options. A time-saving approach to performing better on an exam or at work." Book cover and image from Amazon.com

New Nursing Books, October

RA643 .E465 2007.
Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues / edited by Felissa R. Lashley
and Jerry D. Durham.
New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2007.

RA975.5.E5 E7 2007.
ER facts made incredibly quick!
Ambler : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RA1226 .C53 2000.
Chemicals, the environment, and you : explorations in science and human health /
[writing team, Juliane Hill ... et al.] ; under a contract from the National
Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Colorado Springs, Colo. : BSCS ; Seattle, Wash. : Videodiscovery, c2000.

RB155 .L372 2007.
Lashley, Felissa R., 1941-
Essentials of clinical genetics in nursing practice / Felissa R. Lashley.
New York : Springer Pub., c2007.

RC280.N43 C46 2005.
Central nervous system tumours of childhood / edited by Eddy Estlin and Stephen
Lowis.
London : Mac Keith Press, 2005.

RC630 .F596 2008.
Fluids & electrolytes made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RC630 .J64 2008.
Johnson, Joyce Young.
Fluids and electrolytes demystified / Joyce Y. Johnson, with contributions by
Edward Lyons, Bennita W. Vaughans.
New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008.

RC674 .C3585 2009.
Cardiovascular care made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.

RC734.A94 B74 2005.
Breath sounds made incredibly easy!
Ambler, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.

RD93 .W682 2007.
Wound care : a collaborative practice manual / edited by Carrie Sussman, Barbara
M. Bates-Jensen.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RD93.95 .W68 2007.
Wound care made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RG558.5 .B57 2005.
Birth, distress, and disease : placental-brain interactions / edited by Michael
L. Power and Jay Schulkin.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

RG951 .B87 2008.
Leifer, Gloria.
Maternity nursing : an introductory text / Gloria Leifer.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders Elsevier, c2008.

RG951 .I57 2009.
Intrapartum management modules : a perinatal education program / editors, Betsy
B. Kennedy, Donna Jean Ruth, E. Jean Martin.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.

RG951 .M3143 2008.
Maternal-neonatal nursing made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RG951 .M872 2006.
Murray, Sharon Smith.
Study guide for Foundations of maternal-newborn nursing / Sharon Smith Murray,
Emily Slone Mckinney.
Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, c2006.

RJ47.3 .W55 2006.
Wilson, Golder.
Preventive management for children with genetic conditions : providing a medical
home / Golder N. Wilson and W. Carl Cooley.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

RJ102 .S35 2006.
The science of healthy behaviors.
Colorado Springs, CO : BSCS, c2006.

RJ375 .S45 2005.
Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children / edited by Robert A.
Minns, J. Keith Brown.
London : Mac Keith Press : Distributed by Cambridge University Press, 2005.

RJ387.A25 H36 2006.
Handbook of pediatric HIV care / edited by Steven L. Zeichner and Jennifer S.
Read.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.

RK61 .O63 2000.
Open wide and trek inside / National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research.
Colorado Springs, CO : BSCS ; Seattle, WA : Videodiscovery, c2000.

RM262 .P478 2008.
Pharmacotherapeutics : clinical reasoning in primary care / [edited by] Kathleen
Gutierrez.
St. Louis ; Edinburgh : Saunders Elsevier, c2008.

RM263 .P56 2008.
Pharmacotherapy : a pathophysiologic approach / [edited by] Joseph T. DiPiro ...
[et al.].
New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2008.

RM301.12 .S52 2008.
Health professional's drug guide 2007-2008 / Margaret T. Shannon ... [et al.].
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008.

RM302.5 .P53 2005.
Pharmacoepidemiology / edited by Brian L. Strom.
Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, c2005.

RT1 .N77.
The Nursing clinics of North America.
Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Co., c1966-

RT41 .N869 2008.
Nursing care planning made incredibly easy.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT48 .A876 2008.
Assessment made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT48 .N863 2008.
Weber, Janet.
Nurses' handbook of health assessment / Janet R. Weber.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, c2008.

RT48 .W432 2007.
Weber, Janet.
Lab manual to accompany Health assessment in nursing, 3rd ed. / Jane Weber, Jane
Kelley, Ann Sprengel.
Philadelphia ; London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT48.5 .D533 2002.
Diagnostic tests made incredibly easy!
Springhouse, Pa. : Springhouse, c2002.

RT48.6 .S66 2008.
Ralph, Sheila Sparks.
Nursing diagnosis reference manual / Sheila Sparks Ralph, Cynthia M. Taylor.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT51 .M436 2008.
Medical-surgical nursing made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT55 .N25 2008.
NCLEX-RN{170} live review on CD [sound recording]/ Sylvia Rayfield & Associates.
[S.l.] : I CAN Publishing. 2008.

RT62 .E53 2007.
End-of-life : a nurse's guide to compassionate care.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT73 .C66.
Communicating nursing research.
Boulder, Colo., Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1968-

RT84.5 .M45 2007.
Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim.
Theoretical nursing : development and progress / Afaf Ibrahim Meleis.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT85 .B766 2008.
Burkhardt, Margaret A.
Ethics & issues in contemporary nursing / Margaret A. Burkhardt, Alvita K.
Nathaniel.
Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008.

RT85 .H87 2008.
Husted, James H.
Ethical decision making in nursing and health care : the symphonological
approach / James H. Husted, Gladys L. Husted.
New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2008.

RT85 .P47 2008.
Perrin, Kathleen Ouimet.
Ethics and conflict / Kathleen Ouimet Perrin, James McGhee.
Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett, c2008.

RT85.2 .O37 2008.
O'Brien, Mary Elizabeth.
Spirituality in nursing : standing on holy ground / Mary Elizabeth O'Brien.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, c2008.

RT85.2 .S538 2006.
Shelly, Judith Allen.
Called to care : a Christian worldview for nursing / Judith Allen Shelly and
Arlene B. Miller.
Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic/InterVarsity Press, c2006.

RT98 .H86 2009.
Hunt, Roberta.
Introduction to community-based nursing / Roberta Hunt.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.

RT120.E4 E44 2007.
Emergency nursing made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT120.I5 C752 2006.
Thelan's critical care nursing : diagnosis and management / Linda D. Urden,
Kathleen M. Stacy, Mary E. Lough [editors].
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby/Elsevier, c2006.

RT120.I5 C766 2008.
Critical care nursing made incredibly easy!
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT120.I5 K53 2006.
Wagner, Kathleen Dorman.
High-acuity nursing / Kathleen Dorman Wagner, Karen L. Johnson, Pamela Stinson
Kidd.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice-Hall, c2006.

RT120.P37 H44 2006.
Hickman, Janet Susan.
Faith community nursing / Janet S. Hickman.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.

Trial access to the Nursing Reference Center database

2008-10-05T12:19:00.000-07:00

From now until the end of November, Mercer University Atlanta has trial access to the Nursing Reference Center database (Powerpoint tutorial) accessible anywhere! Scroll to the bottom of the "Select New Service" page until you see the red cross comprised of five boxes as shown above. Please let me know what you think about this trial.

Do you need help with APA style?

2008-10-03T13:53:00.000-07:00

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Faculty, staff, & students are invited to attend “Scientific Collaborations, Connections and Communities,” OCT. 6-7

2008-10-02T09:48:00.000-07:00

Faculty, staff or students are invited to attend “Scientific Collaborations, Connections and Communities,” an Oct. 6-7 conference at Emory University on new information technologies for the sciences/health and medicine. Among the topics to be explored are cross-disciplinary research, informatics and virtual communities.

Registration is free, but sign-up is required by tomorrow, Oct. 3. To view the entire conference line-up, visit http://www.metascholar.org/events/2008/sccc . Feel free to forward to any interested parties!

Keynote Speakers:
Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Johan Bollen, Ph.D.
new approaches to measuring scholarly research and impact
9 a.m. Oct. 6, Jones Room, Level Three, Robert W. Woodruff Library Building

Harvard University’s Isaac Kohane, M.D. and Ph.D.
biomedical informatics and developments that connect hospital systems together into ''living laboratories” 8 a.m. Oct. 7, Ballroom, Cox Hall

Upcoming NUR 215 Library Orientation Classes

2008-09-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to remind students enrolled in NUR 215. There are only eight more opportunities to attend a Fall nursing orientation session. Sessions are limited to the first 22 students.

Tuesday, September 16th @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm and 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Thursday, September 18th @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm and 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Thursday, September 25th @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm and 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Thursday, October 2nd @ 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm and 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Let me know if you have any questions.

New Nursing Titles: September 2008

2008-09-15T09:02:00.000-07:00

Arlene's recommended book for September:

First, do no harm : power, oppression, and violence in healthcare

First, Do No Harm shows how health care professionals, with the best intentions of providing excellent, holistic health care, can nonetheless perpetuate violence against vulnerable patients. The essays investigate the need to rethink contemporary healthcare practices in ways that can bring the art and science of medicine back into sorely needed balance. These ground-breaking studies by noted scholars question commonly held assumptions in contemporary healthcare that underlie oppressive power dynamics and even violence for patients and their families. The contributors discuss such topics as women and violence, life-support technologies, and healthcare professionals’ own experiences as patients. First, Do No Harm opens the discourse for reaching new understandings, from reassessing the meaning of "quality of life" to questioning the appropriateness of the very language used by healthcare professionals. It will be welcomed by healthcare workers and by scholars in nursing, medicine, and the allied health sciences. - Book cover image and review from Amazon.com

New Nursing Titles: September 2008

R135.5 .R67 1977.
Rosner, Fred.
Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud : selections from classical Jewish sources

New York : Ktav Pub. House, 1977.

R724 .L25 2007.
Lamm, Richard D.
Condition critical : a new moral vision for health care / Richard D. Lamm and
Robert H. Blank.

Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2007.

R727.3 .F53 2002.
First, do no harm : power, oppression, and violence in healthcare / Nancy
Diekelmann, volume editor.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

RA407.3 .U57.
Health, United States.
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health
Service, Health Resources Administration, National Center for Health Statistics
; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1976-

RC60 .M4.
The Medical clinics of North America.
Philadelphia, Saunders.

RC76 .J37 2008.
Jarvis, Carolyn.
Physical examination & health assessment / Carolyn Jarvis ; original
illustrations by Pat Thomas ; assessment photographs by Kevin Strandberg.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2008.

RC630 .B28 2008.
Baumberger-Henry, Mary.
Fluids and electrolytes / Mary Baumberger-Henry.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008.

RD94 .B374 2008.
Baranoski, Sharon.
Wound care essentials : practice principles / Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A.
Ayello.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RD95 .H47 2008.
Hess, Cathy Thomas, 1961-
Skin & wound care / Cathy Thomas Hess.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RG951 .M318 2007.
Maternity & women's health care / [edited by] Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Shannon
E. Perry.
St. Louis : Mosby, c2007.

RG951 .M87 2006.
Murray, Sharon Smith.
Foundations of maternal-newborn nursing / Sharon Smith Murray, Emily Slone
McKinney.
St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Saunders, c2006.

RJ47.8 .E865 2005.
Ethical dilemmas in pediatrics : cases and commentaries / edited by Lorry R.
Frankel ... [et al.].
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

RJ245 .M675 2008.
Mosby's pediatric nursing reference / [edited by] Cecily Lynn Betz, Linda A.
Sowden.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby/Elsevier, c2008.

RJ245 .N856 2007.
Nursing care of children : principles & practice / [edited by] Susan Rowen James,
Jean Weiler Ashwill.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2007.

RM125 .P472.
Delmar nurse's drug handbook.
Clifton Park, NY : Delmar Publishers, c2009-

RM147 .E936 2008.
Lynn, Pamela Barbara, 1961-
Lippincott's photo atlas of medication administration / Pamela Lynn.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RM300 .K37 2008.
Karch, Amy Morrison, 1949-
Focus on nursing pharmacology / Amy M. Karch.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RS57 .B68 2008.
Boundy, Janice F.
Calculation of medication dosages : practical strategies to ensure safety and
accuracy / Janice F. Boundy, Patricia A. Stockert.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RS57 .C73 2009.
Craig, Gloria P., 1949-
Clinical calculations made easy : solving problems using dimensional analysis /
Gloria P. Craig.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.

RS57 .H46 2006.
Buchholz, Susan, RN.
Henke's med-math : dosage calculation, preparation and administration.
Philadelphia, Pa. ; London : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.

RT1 .C84.
Cumulative index to nursing & allied health literature.
Glendale, CA, Glendale Adventist Medical Center.

RT41 .E39 2007.
Elkin, Martha Keene.
Nursing interventions & clinical skills / Martha Keene Elkin, Anne Griffin Perry,
Patricia A. Potter.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2007.

RT41 .F8813 2008.
Kozier & Erb's fundamentals of nursing : concepts, process, and practice /
Audrey Berman ... [et al.].
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008.

RT41 .L87 2008.
Medical-surgical nursing : clinical management for positive outcomes / [edited
by] Joyce M. Black, Jane Hokanson Hawks.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2009.

RT48 .C373 2007.
Carpenito-Moyet, Lynda Juall.
Understanding the nursing process : concept mapping and care planning for
students / Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT48 .D54 2007.
Dillon, Patricia M.
Nursing health assessment : a critical thinking, case studies approach /
Patricia M. Dillon ; illustrated by Dimitri Karenitkov ; photography by B.
Proud.
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2007.

RT48.6 .D643 2008.
Doenges, Marilynn E., 1922-
Nursing diagnosis manual : planning, individualizing, and documenting client
care / Marilynn E. Doenges, Mary Frances Moorhouse, Alice C. Murr.
Philadelphia, PA : F.A. Davis, c2008.

RT48.6 .N869 2008.
Nursing diagnosis : application to clinical practice / [edited by] Lynda Juall
Carpenito-Moyet.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT52 .E44 2007.
Ellis, Janice Rider.
Modules for basic nursing skills / Janice Rider Ellis, Patricia M. Bentz.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

RT71 .R48 1999.
Reilly, Dorothy E.
Behavioral objectives : evaluation in nursing / Dorothy E. Reilly, Marilyn H.
Oermann.
New York : National League for Nursing ; San Jose, CA toExcel, c1999.

RT71 .T347 2003.
Teaching the practitioners of care : new pedagogies for the health professions /
Nancy L. Diekelmann, volume editor.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

RT75 .K484 2005.
Doctoral education in nursing : international perspectives / Shak{226}e Ketefian
and Hugh P. McKenna [editors].
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

RT81.5 .A55.
Annual review of nursing research.
New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1984-

RT81.5 .F35 2004.
Fain, James A., 1953-
Reading, understanding, and applying nursing research : a text and workbook /
James A. Fain.
Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c2004.

RT82 .E45 2008.
Ellis, Janice Rider.
Nursing in today's world : trends, issues, & management / Janice Rider Ellis,
Celia Love Hartley ; illustrations by Tomm Scalera.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT82 .H37 2009.
Harrington, Nicki.
LPN to RN transitions : achieving success in your new role / Nicki Harrington,
Cynthia Lee Terry.
Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2009.

RT85 .B87 2004.
Burnard, Philip.
Professional and ethical issues in nursing / Philip Burnard, Christine Chapman ;
editorial consultant, Suzan Smallman.
Edinburgh ; New York : Bailli{225}ere Tindall, 2004.

RT85 .E72 2006.
Essentials of teaching and learning in nursing ethics : perspectives and methods
/ [edited by] Anne J. Davis, Verena Tschudin, Louise de Raeve ; forewords by
Margretta Madden Styles, Mo Im Kim.
Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2006.

RT98 .A533 2008.
Anderson, Elizabeth T.
Community as partner : theory and practice in nursing / Elizabeth T. Anderson,
Judith McFarlane.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008.

RT98 .C54 2008.
Clark, Mary Jo Dummer.
Community assessment reference guide for community health nursing / Mary Jo
Clark.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008.

RT98 .D54 2005.
Diem, E.
Community health nursing projects : making a difference / Elizabeth Diem, Alwyn
Moyer.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.

RT120.E4 B75 2007.
Briggs, Julie K.
Telephone triage protocols for nurses / Julie K. Briggs.
Philadelphia : Wolter Kluwer Health/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, c2007.

EBSOhost 2.0 Now Available

2008-07-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

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More Electronic Books Available From GaIN

2008-05-27T13:07:00.000-07:00

The GaIN "electronic textbooks" link has now been updated to include all new AccessMedicine titles. This list provides easy access by specialty and title to all 100+ textbooks within GaIN. The "electronic textbooks" link is available from the main GaIN services page.

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New CINAHL Search Feature

2008-05-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

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