Paul Ambrose Scholars Program

 Request for Applications

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 8, 2010

 The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) would like to inform you of a valuable scholarship opportunity for students of the health professions.

APTR is now accepting applications for the 2010 Paul Ambrose Scholars Program (PASP).  PASP is the leadership program that stimulates interest in disease prevention, health promotion, and interprofessional collaboration among students of the health professions. This unique program provides scholarships for 40 to 50 students to attend a 3-day symposium in Washington, DC and conduct a funded community-based health education project in their community or at their institution. 

Please visit our website at www.aptrweb.org/pasp to learn more about the Paul Ambrose Scholars Program and to access the online application.  For additional program information or questions regarding the application process, please contact Amy Doggett (202.463.0550, ext 123) or Emily Springer ( oreas@aptrweb.org 202.463.0550, ext . 137). PASP Eligibility:Applicants must be a current student* in one of the following areas of graduate study within the US:

Dentistry (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

·  Allopathic Medicine (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

 ·  Osteopathic Medicine (entering years 2-4 in fall 2010)

 ·  Graduate Physician Assistant

  ·  Graduate Nursing 

 ·  Pharmacy (entering years 5 or 6 in a PharmD program in fall 2010)

 * Note: Students currently enrolled in public health programs or with graduate degrees in public health are NOT eligible. Applicants graduating in the spring/summer 2010 are NOT eligible.*Application Deadline – *February 8, 2010

 Applicant Notification – April 1, 2010 2010 Paul Ambrose Scholars Symposium – June 25-27, 2010

APTR-ODPHP Health Policy Fellowship Program

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), offers Health Policy Fellowships to eligible individuals in the public health field.

Selected Fellows will have training in health promotion, prevention, and health communication policy at the national level while contributing to ODPHP’s activities.

Applicant must have completed a graduate degree in communication, marketing, or public health.
 

For more information, please go to

http://aptrweb.org/prof_dev/fellowships_HCF.html

Research Corner Hours

Have you been to the Research Corner yet?

Stop by WSL 107 for one-on-one assistance from a librarian.

Monday: 3:30-5:30pm

Tuesday: 11:30 am-1:30pm

Wednesday: 12:30-2:30pm

Thursday: 11:30am-1:30 and 2:30-4:30pm

Friday: 11:00am-12:30pm

See you there!

Library Hours for Winter 2010

Welcome back!

The Library Hours for Winter 2010  (January 6 – March 20, 2010)

Monday – Thursday  9:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

EXCEPTIONS TO ABOVE:
January 15, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
January 18, 2010, Monday Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday – CLOSED
January 22, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 26, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 13, 2010, Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

New Books for Nursing – Jan 2010

Avoiding common nursing errors

Becoming a nurse educator : dialogue for an engaging career

Fast facts for the ER nurse : emergency room orientation in nutshell

Fat detection : taste, texture, and post ingestive effects   Learning clinical reasoning   Nursing research : methods and critical appraisal for evidence-based practice   Assessment : an incredibly easy! pocket guide.  Becoming a reflective practitioner   Chemistry and physics for nurse anesthesia : a student centered approach   Clinical nurse specialist handbook   Critical thinking to achieve positive health outcomes : nursing case studies and analyses   Essential calculation skills for nurses, midwives, and healthcare practititoners   Glaserian grounded theory in nursing research : trusting emergence   Lippincott’s nursing drug guide   Narrative and stories in health care : illness, dying and bereavement   Nurse’s personal preceptor.  Official guide for foreign-educated nurses : what you need to know about nursing and health care in the United States   Practice environment of nursing : issues & trends   Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities   Research essentials : foundations for evidence-based practice   Research for advanced practice nurses : from evidence to practice   Sheehy’s emergency nursing : principles and practice

Flu Evidence-Based Information Portal (EBSCO)

As public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season continues to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing respond by offering the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.

Click  http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/ to access this free flu information resource.

New Library Hours

Welcome back to School! Due to budget reductions and the furlough schedule, the Stiern Library will have different hours of operation in 2009-10.

 Monday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

 Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

 Wednesday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

 Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

 Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 Saturday CLOSED

 Sunday 11:00 a. m. to 7:00 p.m.

 The Library will also be closed staff furlough Fridays during the fall quarter which are September 25, October 9 and 23, November 13, as well as December 17, 22, 23 and 24. The Library will be open on November 20 which is right before the exam period.

New Books Received – April 09

• 2009 Nurse’s Drug Handbook
• Clinical supervision for nurses
• Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness
• Food and health in the new millennium : a concise guide to the role of nutrition in health and disease
• Management and leadership for nurse administrators
• Math for nurses : a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation
• New leadership challenge : creating the future of nursing
• Nurse to nurse.
• Speaking of dying : a practical guide to using counselling skills in palliative care
• Advanced practice nursing : an integrative approach
• Building your nursing career : a guide for students
• Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy
• Care managers : working with the aging family
• Caring for patients from different cultures
• Classroom skills for nurse educators
• Clinical delegation skills : a handbook for professional practice
• Clinical dietitian’s essential pocket guide
• Clinical health psychology in medical settings : a practitioner’s guidebook
• Dietary supplements
• Emotional labour in health care : the unmanaged heart of nursing
• Essential nursing skills
• Evaluating research for evidence-based nursing practice
• Fast facts for the clinical nursing instructor : clinical teaching in a nutshell
• Future of the nursing workforce in the United States : data, trends, and implications
• Getting the most from nursing school : a guide to becoming a nurse
• Grant writing handbook for nurses
• Handbook of informatics for nurses & healthcare professionals
• Health promotion strategies through the life span
• Hospice companion : best practices for interdisciplinary assessment and care of common problems during the last phase of life
• Human centered nursing : the foundation of quality care
• Intravenous medications : a handbook for nurses and other allied health personnel
• Introduction to theory and reasoning in nursing
• Lippincott’s nursing drug guide
• Manual of school health : a handbook for school nurses, educators, and health professionals
• Mastering the teaching role : a guide for nurse educators
• Merck manual of patient symptoms : a concise, practical guide to etiology, evaluation, and treatment
• Mosby’s drug guide for nurses
• Muslim medical ethics : from theory to practice
• Nurse’s drug handbook
• Nurse’s handbook of I.V. drugs
• Nurse’s handbook of behavioral and mental health drugs
• Nurse’s quick check
• Nurse’s rapid reference
• Nurse’s survival guide to the ward
• Nursing Education Challenges in the 21st Century
• Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge
• Nursing now! : today’s issues, tomorrow’s trends
• Nursing research : designs and methods
• Nursing spectrum drug handbook 2009
• Pediatric nursing care plans for the hospitalized child
• Perspectives on nursing theory
• Pocket guide to nutritional assessment and care
• Psychosocial issues in palliative care
• Real stories of nursing research : the quest for Magnet recognition
• Reflective practice in nursing
• Roy adaptation model
• Royal Marsden Hospital manual of clinical nursing procedures
• Teaching in nursing : a guide for faculty
• Trauma nursing : from resuscitation through rehabilitation
• Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine
• Watson’s clinical nursing pocket book
• What is special about the human brain?

Nursing Books Received – Oct 08

Pediatric nursing : scope and standards of practice

5-minute obstetrics and gynecology consult

Advancing your career : concepts of professional nursing

Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach

Clinical assessment and monitoring in children

Clinical dietitian’s essential pocket guide

Communication and education skills for dietetics professionals

Davis’s drug guide for nurses

Easeful death : is there a case for assisted dying?

Guide to nursing management and leadership

Inherited metabolic diseases : a guide to 100 conditions

Medical-surgical nursing : clinical management for positive outcomes

Nurse’s drug handbook.

Nurse’s rapid reference.

Nursing : the philosophy and science of caring

Nursing know-how.

Nursing models, theories and practice

Public health nursing : leadership, policy, & practice

SMART way : an introduction to writing for nurses

Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine’s greatest lifesaver

Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood : a cross-cultural perspective

Clinical calculations : with applications to general and specialty areas

Communication as comfort : multiple voices in palliative care

Middle range theories : application to nursing research

Nurse executive : the four principles of management

Nurse’s quick check.

Pediatric nursing : scope and standards of practice

Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

Values in medicine : what are we really doing to patients?

How to write a guideline from start to finish : a handbook for healthcare professionals

International practice development in nursing and healthcare

Just the facts : a pocket guide to basic nursing

Key concepts in nursing

Lippincott’s nursing procedures.

Making room in the clinic : nurse practitioners and the evolution of modern health care

New Books for Nursing in May 08

• Advancing health literacy : a framework for understanding and action 
• Birth : the surprising history of how we are born 
• Creative nursing leadership & management 
• Decision making in medicine and health care 
• Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles 
• Ethical choices in contemporary medicine : integrative bioethics 
• Ethical decision making in nursing and health care : the symphonological approach 
• Evidence-based nursing : the research-practice connection 
• Fundamentals of brain development : integrating nature and nurture 
• Practical guide to the care of the gynecologicobstetric patient 
• Psychological Dieter It’s Not All About the Calories
• Sacred covenant : the spiritual ministry of nursing 
• Sanctity of human life 
• Vegetables and fruits : nutritional and therapeutic values 
• Vulnerable older adults : health care needs and interventions 
• When illness goes public : celebrity patients and how we look at medicine 
• Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body