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Month: April 2020

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Connect with colleagues and your creative side on Tuesday, April 7, from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm. Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library is hosting a Virtual Lunch Break: Coloring Session. Print out a few medical history-themed coloring pages, dust off your colored pencils, and drop in to our virtual meeting room. Relax, chat with friends (old and new), and let out your inner artist.

Not sure what to color? The event organizer will email registrants a few suggestions from the New York Academy of Medicine’s annual Color Our Collections campaign. Who isn’t interested in coloring a Uronoscopic Consultation from Fasciculus Medicinae? (from the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia).

Historical Medical Library: Urinoscopic Consultation

It’s a work in progress…

Did you color in the lines? Whether you did or didn’t, we’re asking you to submit your colored page to the Health Sciences Research Commons. Of those who submit, one will be chosen at random to win a gift card for a food delivery service.

Register online to receive the WebEx meeting room link and coloring page suggestions https://rooms.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/event/6624986

Questions?

Email Stacy Brody, Reference and Instruction Librarian, sbrody98@gwu.edu

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Lippincott Nursing Skills & Procedures: Rapid Onboarding ModuleDo you need nursing training to support COVID-19 care? Are you training new staff to support COVID-19 care? Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills recently added a section to support to 'Rapid Onboarding'!

This valuable tool was designed to help quickly train new and additional nursing staff who will be able to safely and efficiently care for COVID-19 patients. Made available March 27th, it can be used to better nurses for the front lines.  Access Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills, then locate the box for 'Rapid Onboarding' where you can find diverse topics including patient admission, assessment, and code.  

The Chief Nursing officer at Wolters Kluwerr, Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, wrote: 

“Today we are in a crisis due to COVID-19. We are seeing a surge of patients that are overwhelming our healthcare system, and in many of the hardest hit areas, hospitals have been granted permission to increase their bed capacity. While that sounds wonderful to the public, it is a nightmare for hospital administrators and those of us on the frontline of care.

We need to ask ourselves the question, who is going to care for those patients?

Our healthcare systems need to find a different way to care for these patients and staff these beds. Many hospitals are looking at alternative staffing models, such as using nurses from different areas and implementing a team-based approach to help ease their staffing challenges. Nurses who are mobilized from different areas will need rapid onboarding and orientation to care for patients especially those with COVID-19.

Wolters Kluwer recognizes the challenges you face and we are here to support you and your team. We know what’s foremost in your mind is making sure your nurses are safe and have the information they need to provide safe and effective care for the patients in your institution.”

 Himmelfarb Library proves 24/7 access to Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills.   

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TrialWolters Kluwer had provided trial access to the following resources through May 24, 2020.  All resources are accessible from off-campus location to users who are logged into the GW VPN.   For information and instructions on using the VPN, please consult Himmelfarb's Off-Campus Access instructions.
Gideon is an infectious disease database that allows users to access information about diagnoses for a wide variety of diseases (including COVID-19) and serves as a fantastic epidemiology reference.  Gideon has application for clinical and public health education and practice.
Several resources may be useful to students in programs in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the School of Nursing:
'Health Library' resources typically provide full-text access to a high-quality set of book titles.  Additional Q&A and study features are also accessible to users who create a free personal account.  Some of the resources provide access to a more focused set of resources which may be most relevant to students in specific programs:
Nursing
Medicine
Physician Assistant
Exercise Science
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Additional
Please contact Laura Abate (leabate@gwu.edu) with feedback and questions.
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