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Nursing Clinical Ladder Program: The Embedded Librarian, Danielle Linden
Nursing Clinical Ladder Program: The Embedded Librarian, Danielle Linden
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Background: Changes to our hospital’s performance review process required Clinical Nurse IIIs and IVs to complete an annual Evidence Based Practice (EBP) or Quality Improvement (QI) project in order to maintain or advance their status on the Clinical Ladder. Nurse Researcher met with Clinical Nurse IIs, IIIs and IVs to review the requirements and held Proposal Writing sessions to prepare nurses. All attendees were referred to Librarian-led literature search classes. Researcher met with nurses individually to discuss projects and sent nurses to consult with Librarian. As a result, Librarian conducted 50 literature searches in support of the EBP and QI …
The Accidental Academic Library: Meeting The Needs Of A Health System–Affiliated University, Heather Martin
The Accidental Academic Library: Meeting The Needs Of A Health System–Affiliated University, Heather Martin
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Background: In 2017 a small liberal arts college affiliated with a large western health system was re-branded, and a School of Health Professions was created to prepare for future staffing shortages and to train the next generation of healthcare workers. Instead of relying solely upon its own library, University administration reached out to the health system library to meet the information needs of this new group of students, most of whom were active employees of the healthcare enterprise. Thus, a group of hospital librarians found themselves as accidental academic librarians.
Description: Library leadership researched academic library bench-marking to propose a …
Beyond The Buy-In: One Year After Building An Institutional Repository, Amanda Schwartz
Beyond The Buy-In: One Year After Building An Institutional Repository, Amanda Schwartz
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Background: In 2018 Providence St. Joseph Health launched an institutional repository to showcase research in a global and consumable way. Year one comprised of establishing the repository, gathering materials, and promoting services to administrators, clinical, and research staff.
Year two built on the momentum of the initial buy-in, focusing on growing submissions, incorporating special collections, and detailed marketing outreach utilizing altmetrics.
Description: In year one, the Digital Asset Librarian conducted outreach to major research groups and departments within the organization. Coupled with the utilization of advanced search algorithms, outreach yielded monthly article and presentation submissions to the institutional repository. Submissions …
Clinical Support: An Unconventional Request – Providence’S 100 Million Masks Initiative, Carrie Grinstead, Heather J. Martin, Laurie Schwing (Ed.)
Clinical Support: An Unconventional Request – Providence’S 100 Million Masks Initiative, Carrie Grinstead, Heather J. Martin, Laurie Schwing (Ed.)
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In early March, Seattle, WA, was the epicenter of the US COVID-19 pandemic. Providence St. Joseph Health had seen the first reported US case of COVID-19 on January 20 [1] and quickly found itself responding to a growing crisis, with little information about how best to care for patients while protecting frontline staff.
On March 16, 2020, Providence System Library Services received an email from senior leadership with the subject line: “Urgent – An Unconventional Request.” We were asked to pause all other work to search for viable mask patterns that could be easily and quickly made at home by …
2019 System Library Services Visual Annual Report, Amanda Schwartz
2019 System Library Services Visual Annual Report, Amanda Schwartz
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A visual report of the 2019 activities and accomplishments by System Library Services at Providence St. Joseph Health