Nursing Reference Center™
                    Evidence-based Point-of-Care Resource
 
Nurse Educators & Managers
 
St. Louis Children’s Hospital now subscribes to Nursing Reference Center™ for all nursing and ancillary health care providers.
 
Nursing Reference Center™ is a point-of-care clinical resource based on the latest and best available scientific evidence from CINAHL®, MEDLINE, National Guideline Clearinghouse, and others.
 
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Lauren Yaeger will be the new librarian for the SLCH Medical Library, starting January 5, 2009.
Lauren is most recently the librarian for St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, MO.  Becker Library and SLCH are pleased to welcome her.
Contact information will soon be available here on this blog.  The library’s phone number is 314-454-2768.

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This article illustrates slight changes coming to the default display for PubMed citations. These changes are intended to enhance readability on-screen.
There were 776 million PubMed/MEDLINE searches performed in the government’s fiscal year 2008.

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SLCH lost access to Red Book online via ClinDesk a couple of weeks ago. This access was lost because a license established in 2005 had expired in 2006 and the AAP caught up with it. My predecessor had established this license and I was unaware of it until a couple of weeks ago.
So that everyone [...]

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Online Resources
To assist with Point-of-Patient Care access to information, in cooperation with Becker Medical Library, SLCH Medical Library acquired SLCH system wide access to:

MD Consult: searchable database that includes First Consult (similar to Up To Date) 133 full text online books, 831 online journals, patient education, drugs, images, news, and CME’s.
Science Direct: 831 full text [...]

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