In the early 1900’s, Jusaburo and Shigeyo Nishimura Fujiki immigrated from Japan to Devil’s Slide, Utah, and in 1926, they gave birth to a girl, Sumiko, who would later make significant strides in the health sciences at the University of Utah. Sumiko Fujiki studied nursing at the University of Utah and graduated in 1949. Soon […]
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As of July 1, 2018, the University of Utah community has access to 2 new nursing resources: Nursing Reference Center Plus An evidence-based point-of-care resource to quickly answers nurses’ clinical questions. It includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management, continuing education modules, and additional skills. This resource […]
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We’re pleased to announce that the Eccles Library has recently acquired access to 65 new journals as part of the LWW Nursing package. Check out the new titles! Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal Advances in Neonatal Care Advances in Skin & Wound Care Annals of Plastic Surgery Biomedical Safety & Standards Cancer Nursing: An International Journal […]
Read ArticleEccles Health Sciences Library now offers access to Ovid MEDLINE ® to the University of Utah community for expert searching in the biomedical literature. The Library’s expert searchers are available to collaborate- ask us. Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, […]
Read ArticleWatch the video of a retrospective of The Cochrane Collaboration’s beginnings and achievements of the past two decades.
Read ArticleUpToDate is now available both on and off campus. Health practitioners are encouraged to register to gain continuing education (CME/CE/CPD ) credit and other benefits. However, users can skip registration and use UpToDate anonymously. NOTE: uptodate.com/online continues to work from devices connected to the university network and does not prompt for user registration. NOTE to Mobile […]
Read Article“A free source of evidence-based information for health care professionals and for researchers studying liver injury associated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and dietary supplements … LIVERTOX also includes a case registry that will enable scientific analysis and better characterization of the clinical patterns of liver injury.” NIH news release.
Read ArticleRobert Wood Johnson Foundation launches new initiative to help raise the educational level of nursing professionals so that 80% have a baccalaureate degree by 2020.
Read ArticleRecap of the library’s first book signing and presentation on the topic of healthcare disparities.
Read ArticleEccles Library is hosting its first lecture-and-book-signing on the topic of “Exploring healthcare disparities from a historical perspective” Friday, 1/27/12, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Public is welcome, and refreshments are included.
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