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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 

Magill’s Medical Guide

Magill’s Medical Guide — The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

This 5-Volume set is also available in Reference Collection on the 1st floor in the Library. The call number is RC41 .M34 2008.

New Books for Nursing in March 08

These books are now available on shelf in the Library.

• Encyclopedia of nursing research 
• Magill’s medical guide
• Nurse’s 3-minute clinical reference
• Resumes for nursing careers 
• Teaching strategies for nurse educators
• Client teaching guides for home health care 
• Concept mapping : a critical-thinking approach to care planning 
• Emergency nursing core curriculum 
• Evidence-based Nursing Care Guidelines Medical-surgical Interventions.
• Evidence-based practice for nurses : appraisal and application of research 
• Guidelines for nurse practitioners in gynecologic settings 
• Integrated theory and knowledge development in nursing 
• Nurse’s toolbook for promoting wellness 
• Nursing diagnosis reference manual 
• Nursing ethics : across the curriculum and into practice 
• Nursing interventions classification (NIC) 
• Nursing outcomes classification (NOC) 
• Practice guidelines for acute care nurse practitioners 
• Priorities in critical care nursing 
• Public health nursing : population-centered health care in the community 
• Qualitative research proposals and reports : a guide 
• Transcultural nursing : assessment and intervention 
• Visual nursing : a guide to diseases, skills, and treatments.
• Wong’s clinical manual of pediatric nursing.
• Acute and critical care clinical nurse specialists : synergy for best practices 
• Applied mathematics for database professionals 
• Basic concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing 
• Body of work : meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab 
• Clinical skills manual for pediatric nursing : caring for children 
• Davis’s guide to clinical nursing skills 
• Deciphering diagnostic tests.
• Interpreting signs & symptoms.
• Lippincott’s nursing drug guide 
• Nurse’s drug handbook 2007 
• Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000 
• Nursing research : generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice 
• Nursing spectrum drug handbook.
• Perfecting clinical procedures.
• Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness 
• UCL Hospitals injectable medicines administration guide 
• Advancing practice in rehabilitation nursing 

Nursing Forums

• Nursing Discussion Forums
• Nursetown.com

CSUB Full Text Periodicals List

CSUB Full Text Periodicals List- The easiest way to determine whether a journal is available is by using the CSUB Full Text Periodicals List. It provides a compiled list of the journals, both electronic and print, the library has access to. You can search by title or ISSN and if the journal title is found, the journal title, the dates of coverage, and the database/s that contain the full text articles will be listed. A link indicating “Library Holdings” means the title available in print form on the second floor of the library. All the journals are shelved from A to Z alphabetically.

Ethics

Library & Information Services Gateway (Ethics)- Links to the major Medical Ethics sites. These includes National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, Bioethics in NLM Databases, and National Information Resources on Ethics & Human Genetics. This site also includes a link to the major Ethic databases on the web.

NLM’s Bioethics Resources on the Web!- The National Library of Medicine has a comprehensive list of annotated links to web resources in bioethics relating to education, research involving human and animal participants, medical and health care, applied genetics, and biotechnology.