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Improving Cultural Approaches To Pediatric Palliative Care In Central Massachusetts, Nancy E. Harger, Rn, Ms Lis, Usmani Naheed, Md, Jennifer Costa, Pnp, Estela Mcdonough
Improving Cultural Approaches To Pediatric Palliative Care In Central Massachusetts, Nancy E. Harger, Rn, Ms Lis, Usmani Naheed, Md, Jennifer Costa, Pnp, Estela Mcdonough
Nancy E. Harger
Objectives: To determine the impact of a web tool developed to improve health care providers' ability and comfort in caring for a diverse patient population in the hospital setting. Methods: The pediatric palliative care team including a pediatric oncologist and a nurse practitioner in association with a clinical medical librarian and a hospital-based interpreter, collaborated to create a resource using SpringShare software to create a library guide. The purpose is to provide cultural and palliative care information resources, books, and journal articles to assist health care workers at UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in caring for children from the diverse …
The Utilization Of An Emergency Medicine Specific Library Website In The Clinical Setting, Doron Korinow, Susanne Griffin, Nancy E. Harger, Jeffrey Cukor
The Utilization Of An Emergency Medicine Specific Library Website In The Clinical Setting, Doron Korinow, Susanne Griffin, Nancy E. Harger, Jeffrey Cukor
Nancy E. Harger
Introduction: The need for efficient access to academic resources in the Emergency Department is crucial to the Emergency physician. Many academic medical libraries have a large volume of information that makes it difficult to find answers in a time-sensitive clinical setting. We designed an Emergency Medicine library guide, tested its efficiency and surveyed users about their preference of an EM library website compared to the general library website.Methods: We created an EM library guide using the Libguide software by Springshare. We then created two tests of similar clinical questions simulating cases in the Emergency Department where researching an answer would …