Friday, May 11:  7:30 am – 10:00 pm
Saturday, May 12:  9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Sunday, May 13-Thursday, May 17:  7:30 am – 1:00 am

The theme of this year’s National Nurses Week (May 6-12)  is Advocating, Leading, Caring.

Here at the Mulford Library, you have access to a variety of resources to assist you on the path to quality patient care, evidence-based practice, professional development, and continuing education.

Take a look at our Nursing LibGuide, an online portal to information resources in nursing.  It includes:

• links to key databases (CINAHL, PubMed and others) and online journals
• tips on finding articles and books
• evidence-based practice resources
• free CEs through Nursing Reference Center; and more!

If you need assistance, don’t hesitate to contact your Nursing Librarian Jodi Jameson (419-383-5152; jodi.jameson@utoledo.edu).

The default search option for the online journal list has been changed so that you can now search for either the beginning of the title (without needing to enter the full title) or the journal title abbreviation.  A successful result still depends upon whether the abbreviation used is recognized (such as the PubMed journal title abbreviations).  These types of searching for journal titles is also available in the Libraries’ catalog.   See these examples from the catalog and the online journals list.

If you have any questions, please contact Mulford Reference Assistance at 419-383-4218 or mulfordreference@utoledo.edu.

• Click the radio button for Citation manager
• Click the Create File button to download a text file (with an nbib extension) in the tagged MEDLINE format

For a more detailed description of this process visit the UT EndNote Library Guide.

Did you know you can earn free Continuing Education credits in the database Nursing Reference Center available to you from the UT Libraries?

To begin earning CE credits,  follow these easy steps:

1. Go to Nursing Reference Center
2. Click the Continuing Education tab at the top of the screen
3. Select the CE module you wish to take
4. First time users will need to choose the option to pre-register

If you need any assistance accessing the CE modules in Nursing Reference Center, please do not hesitate to contact your Nursing Librarian Jodi Jameson.

The following free websites are useful not only for research purposes, but for consumer health as well:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Ohio Department of Health – Data & Statistics
• World Health Organization

Below are library catalog links to public health book titles available at Mulford:

• U.S. health policy & politics: a documentary history / Hillstrom (2012)
• The nation’s health / Shi & Singh (2011)
• The new public health: an introduction for the 21st-century / Tulchinsky & Varavikova (2009)
• Public health and preventative medicine / Wallace (2008) (also available as an e-book)
• Public health at the crossroads: achievements and prospects / Beaglehole & Bonita  (2004)

You might also be interested in checking out the exhibit Medicine on the Maumee: A History of Healthcare in Northwest Ohio at the Canaday Center on main campus.  The exhibit offers a peak into the history of medical care in northwest Ohio, from the 19th century to the present day.

As always, don’t hesitate to ask a librarian for further information.

“For eight years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has supported the Trust for America’s Health in releasing an annual Investing in America’s Health report to examine public health funding and key health facts in states around the country.”  Download the complete report (March 2012) or view reports from individual communities (right hand column on webpage) that have encouraged disease prevention through public health programs.

Trust for America’s Health offers other reports and major initiatives such as food safety, obesity and health disparities.  It also includes the “Your State’s Health” that offers a view of key health data for each state.  Take a look at Ohio.

For help on finding health prevention information and other resources, don’t hesitate to ask a health science librarian: 419-383-4218 or MulfordReference@utoledo.edu.

One word of advice on access. If trying to access from off campus, use the link from the online catalog record. Even though you may have a personal account with USMLE-Easy, it is still necessary to be validated (your name and Rocket ID) by the University of Toledo Libraries before gaining access. Once you have entered the information, you will be placed at the webpage for personal account access.

If at the USMLE-Easy personal login page, check to see if either of these numbers 131.183.72.12 or 131.183.0.122 are listed at the bottom left of the screen where it says “Your IP address is…”. If not, it will be necessary to do as instructed in the previous paragraph.

As always, if additional assistance is needed, don’t hesitate to ask a librarian: 419-383-4218 or MulfordReference@utoledo.edu.

Note:  As with the web-based version, access is restricted to the University.  Under our license, we do not have access to UpToDate MobileComplete.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has stopped one arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.

“These findings underscore why treatments must be evaluated in a rigorous manner,” said Susan B. Shurin, M.D., acting director of the NHLBI. “This combination therapy is widely used in patients with IPF, but has not previously been studied in direct comparison to a placebo for all three drugs.”

The interim results from this study showed that compared to placebo, those assigned to triple therapy had greater mortality (11 percent versus 1 percent), more hospitalizations (29 percent versus 8 percent), and more serious adverse events (31 percent versus 9 percent) and also had no difference in lung function test changes. Participants randomly assigned to the triple- therapy arm also remained on their assigned treatment at a much lower rate (78 percent adherence versus 98 percent adherence).

“Anyone on some combination of these medications with questions or concerns should consult with their health care provider and not simply stop taking the drugs,” said Ganesh Raghu, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle and a co-chair of this IPF study. “It is important to realize that these results definitively apply only to patients with well-defined IPF and not to people taking a combination of these drugs for other lung diseases or conditions.”

For more information, see the full clinical alert: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html