Category Archives: nursing
New database: Ovid MEDLINE®
Eccles 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, […]
Appy Hour- Friday, June 6, 4:00-5:30pm
Join Us. Drop In. Come on Over. Friday, June 6, 2014, 4-5:30 PM Main Level, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Relax and chat with your colleagues before heading home for the weekend. Join us for refreshments and conversation. Share your favorite app. An APP (or two) will be highlighted. The featured app is ABG […]
20 years of The Cochrane Collaboration: Looking back on the search for evidence
Watch the video of a retrospective of The Cochrane Collaboration’s beginnings and achievements of the past two decades.
Hidden Treasure: A weird and wonderful collection
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a collection of more than 17 million items and their new book, Hidden Treasure, showcases a collection of rare and surprising pieces found in the collection. Michael Sappol is the editor of this fascinating collection and a curator-historian at NLM. Among […]
UpToDate expanded access
UpToDate 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 […]
LIVERTOX – free database from NIH of drugs associated with liver injury
“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.
New initiative to support academic progression in nursing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launches new initiative to help raise the educational level of nursing professionals so that 80% have a baccalaureate degree by 2020.
Another Eccles success: our first book signing event
Recap of the library’s first book signing and presentation on the topic of healthcare disparities.
Exploring healthcare disparities from a historical perspective
Eccles 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.
Clinical Team Experience registration open
Registration for the Clinical Team Experience (CTE), an interdisciplinary project that demonstrates the importance of a team approach to health care delivery, is now open.
