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Leisurely Reshaping A Consumer Health Book Collection, Kelsey Grabeel, Martha Earl, Jennifer Luhrs

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To discover whether adding leisure books, according to a carefully designed collection development policy, to a consumer health collection (CHC) in a hospital would lead to an increase in usage of the CHC collection, an increased number of monthly subscriptions for membership in the Health Information Center (HIC), and change in the subject of materials circulated.

Methods: The collection development policy, specifically for the Leisure Reading Collection (LRC), included bestselling titles within 3 years, award winning fiction, and classics. Librarians also set criteria with clear parameters related to gifts, donations, and collection maintenance. Twenty-four books were selected for the …

Elevating Patient Education Through State-Wide Instruction Of Nurses And Patient Educators On Consumer Health Resources, Lindsay Blake, Alice Jaggers

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Background: Patient Education is consistently cited by the Joint Commission as needing work at many institutions. However, with a limited number of patient educators and high nurse to patient ratios it is hard to find the time to adequately teach patients all they may need to know. The goal of this project was to create a course and online guide for nurses and patient educators. The course was approved for continuing education credit for nurses, dieticians, and health education specialists. The guide would serve as a central location for accessing consumer health websites and information for both educators and patients. …