Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Moving Beyond Doctor Google: Providing Consumer Health Literacy In The Library, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Presented virtually at PaLA Frontline Conference, 2024

This session will help library public services staff to identify credible sources of health information that assist patrons with increasing health literacy skills. It will review credible health websites and discuss evaluation criteria for medical information. The session will also discuss professional boundaries that library staff need to maintain when providing health information.

Concussed University Students: Improving Diagnosis And Management Of Concussions, Teri Witter

Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship

•PROBLEM STATEMENT: Concussions often remove university students from curricular and co-curricular activities. In the absence of a concussion protocol, diagnosis and management of a concussion may be delayed •AIM: to decrease the incidence of undiagnosed or misdiagnosed concussions in the university setting •PURPOSE: To implement a concussion protocol in the university setting using the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) tool