Erin Moore
October is officially the month of autumnal festivities, pumpkin-spiced everything, and cooler temps. It's also National Medical Librarians month, and we want to celebrate all that medical librarians contribute to their organizations
Last week's Nursing Research Symposium illuminated nurses whose research and EBP contributions are making a real impact to practice and patient care at Banner. Innovation was at the forefront of the discussion. Read on to fan the flames of innovation!
The Banner Learning & Library Support team is pleased to provide you with access to the 10th edition of the Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing.
Dive into the latest in surgical standards! The 2024 AORN Guidelines have just dropped on the Banner Health Library Services website. Get all the deets on the library blog!
In honor of Library Lover's Day, we want to thank our Banner Team members for sharing feedback about their most recent library services experience. Please take a look at this infographic and some of the valentines we received! We are feeling the love!
Dr. Uché Blackstock's Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine is a groundbreaking exploration of the challenges faced by Black physicians and patients, and offers a poignant perspective on the pervasive issue of racism in healthcare.
Ready for the quickest and easiest route for obtaining full-text articles from Banner Health Libraries? Your life is about to change, friends. First, download the Libkey Nomad browser extension.
Let's play a game in which I'll describe a research-related topic and you guess what it is. Deal? Let's do this.
--It's shrouded in mystery and intrigue but painstakingly conceals the rigor required to produce it....
When I first considered the purpose behind introducing the Research Rundown to the wider Banner community, one of my hopes was that the powerful act of sharing would inspire you to seek out answers to your health care questions.
CINAHL Ultimate is now available through Banner Health Library Services, and we couldn't be more excited! Read on to learn more!
It's time again for the next installment of The Research Rundown, a spotlight of trending topics with broad appeal shared with intention to inspire you to adopt a "Spirit of Inquiry."
Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Banner Health Library Services Research Rundown! To foster information-sharing and contribute to a "Spirit of Inquiry", the Research Rundown shines a quarterly spotlight on trending topics of broad appeal.
In an effort to foster information-sharing and contribute to a "Spirit of Inquiry", Banner Health Library Services is excited to debut the Research Rundown, a quarterly spotlight on trending clinical topics with broad appeal.
Looking for board prep materials? Ready to test your knowledge in preparation for exams, initial certification, or recertification? We thought so. In case you haven't heard yet, Board Vitals is all the rage.
Pubmed Clinical Queries features a search filter that quickly weeds out lower-level studies. In short, you can zoom-in on clinical research studies fast! Type your terms into the search box or utilize the "dynamically populating list" if appropriate suggested terms are available.
To locate clinical studies, you can select specific predefined filters that focus on etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, or clinical prediction guidelines. You will see your search terms mapped into a Pubmed search along with your results that you can refine further in Pubmed using the left-hand sidebar. The Clinical Queries search feature also offers a COVID-19 filter to quickly root out irrelevant information.
If you're not yet using Pubmed Clinical Queries, now is a great time to start. Add this fantastic tool to your repertoire or contact a librarian to learn more about crafting searches.
90 million is the number of Americans estimated to have "low health literacy". Health Literacy comprises the reading, writing, calculation, technology, and communications skills that are critical to participating in and making healthcare decisions. We cannot fully advocate for ourselves or our loved ones if we are not involved in our own care.
If you're anything like me, then you may process your doctor appointment for days, weeks, or months after your appointment concludes (and sometimes longer). After I leave a clinic or doctor office, my internal dialog sounds something like this: "Wait, was I supposed to schedule a follow-up at this office or another office? Or will that follow-up appointment be scheduled for me? Why should I be taking this new medication? Does this medication have any contraindications? When should I start taking it?" Even for a routine appointment, the experience is a whirlwind. Imagine how much more stressful this experience becomes if you're a patient with more complex needs who is managing more than one condition, medication, or procedure/surgery.
However, there is a really important caveat to consider here: healthcare organizations and individuals have a shared responsibility for improving health literacy rates and improving care.
To learn more about the tools available for improving health literacy rates, please visit the Banner Connect page on Health Literacy. There is a wealth of information, including factsheets and toolkits, to help you become more knowledgeable and experienced.
Are you interested in deepening your knowledge about health literacy topics such as "Motivational Interviewing" or the "Teach Back Method"? This method is a best practice for placing patients at the center of their own care. As a patient, I have never actually experienced this method in real life. Have you? Not once has a clinician ask me to please "teach back" or repeat the information they shared with me so that I may demonstrate my comprehension. I know about this powerful patient education method in theory; but I want to support health care staff in making this method a natural part of how they do patient education. This method is powerful and simple to implement, so why wouldn't we?
Although October is coming to a close, taking the time to educate ourselves and our patients about health literacy is always a timely topic for discussion. In serving Sophia, how can we cultivate a culture that advances and promotes health literacy? Please contact library staff for assistance in searching across a multitude of information platforms and resources available to Banner staff. We look forward to supporting you!
September 15 - October 15 marks National Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month. The Banner Health Library is a great resource for discovering quality clinical information pertaining to medicine and the Latinx community. Need quality consumer health information or government information (CDC) about health disparities across the Hispanic and Latinx communities? League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is another good bet. Digging deeper into targeting high-level evidence for managing diabetes or chronic illness in Hispanic/Latinx populations? Not only can we direct you to high-quality resources, but we partner with you to target information-retrieval strategies that get you relevant, meaningful results.
- Jump start: General Medical topics related to Hispanic Americans or Latinx populations limited to the last 5 years (Pubmed)
- Jump start: search results on topic of Hispanic Americans + Healthcare Disparities limited to the last 5 years (Pubmed)
- Jump start: TRIP database search results (TRIP is an evidence-aggregating tool)
- Banner Connect Diversity & Inclusion site, including Hispanic American & Latinx topics shared on Yammer (see Hispanic Latinx Celebration Kickoff video!)
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