MHP Library Services Blogbrary

2008-05-31T10:48:00.001-04:00

Patient Safety Articles for June

Patient Safety Review Articles for June Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sign into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

2008-05-31T10:42:00.003-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for the Month of June

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sign into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

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Sun Safety Week June 9-14

2008-05-31T10:33:00.003-04:00

Sun Safety Week is June 9-14

Be prepared for the summer months and protect your family

The Facts About Getting Too Much Sun

It's a fact: Overexposure to the sun can result in skin cancer later in life. What are your family's risks from exposure to powerful UV rays? Consider these facts and statistics.
The Dangers of UV Exposure
You can sunburn even on a cloudy day.
On average, children get 3 times more exposure than adults.
The vast majority, perhaps as much as 80% of a person's lifetime sun exposure is estimated to occur by age 18.
Concrete, sand, water, and snow reflect 85% to 90% of the sun's UV rays.
Depletion of Earth's ozone continues to increase your exposure to UV rays.
Skin Cancer
In some parts of the world, melanoma is increasing at rates faster than any other cancer.
More than 1.2 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the US.
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, kills one person every hour.
One blistering sunburn can double a child's lifetime risk of developing skin cancer.

http://www.sunsafetyalliance.org/bare_facts.html

2008-05-31T10:07:00.002-04:00

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL

Men's Health Network

Men's Health Network (MHN) is a non-profit educational organization comprised of physicians, researchers, public health workers, individuals and other health professionals. MHN is committed to improving the health and wellness of men through education campaigns, partnerships with retailers and other private entities, workplace health programs, data collection, and work with health care providers to provide better programs and funding for men's health needs.

MHN's Goals:
Save men's lives by reducing premature mortality of men and boys
Foster health care education and services that encourage men of all ages to implement positive lifestyles for themselves and their families
Increase the physical and mental health of men so that they can live fuller and happier lives
Significantly reduce the cycles of violence and addiction that afflict so many men
Energize government involvement in men's health activities so that existing government health networks can be utilized to increase the health and well-being of men and boys
Encourage women to expand on their traditional role as the family's health care leader and activist for enhancement of health care services

http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/

My Asthma

2008-05-27T15:45:00.002-04:00

My Asthma

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, characterized by coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and difficult breathing. Asthma is classified into five groups based on severity: exercise-induced asthma (exercise-induced bronchospasm), mild intermittent asthma, mild persistent asthma, moderate persistent asthma, severe persistent asthma.
An allergy is an overreaction by your body's immune system to a normally harmless substance, or allergen, that does not bother most people. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, allergies are among the major causes of illness and disability in the United States, affecting as many as 50 million Americans. From 10% to 30% of adults and up to 40% of children have allergies. Allergy symptoms may significantly affect your quality of life by causing fatigue, headache, and difficulty in daily functioning.

My allergy – what I shoud know about it

2008-05-26T11:42:00.001-04:00

My allergy
Being a person lives with allergy for years, I thought I should do something to educate others in the later part of my life. This site I made with the aim of providing basic knowledge of allergy in a simple way to understand those do not know much about science and medicine. My aim is local community in Colombo and suburb and I feel now at least some of them have access to this communication.
Other than from text book I god information from some internet site and news letter like - Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA),AAAAI - American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, Some other grate educational site on allergy.
As my knowledge about web technology is poor, one of my energetic friend help me to build this site and maintain almost free (I do not thing he get big fortune from the adds he run here). I must be thank full to Bravehost for running this site without much adds from them specially ugly pop up.
I would like to include some disclaimer here as that is important always. This is an educational web site. Always seek professional medical advice from your physician or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

2008-05-14T13:36:00.004-04:00

Patient Safety Articles for May

Patient Safety Review Articles for May

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Core Medical Review Articles of the Month

2008-05-14T13:19:00.005-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles of the Month

May

Asthma and Allergy awareness Month

2008-05-14T13:06:00.004-04:00

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

May is Asthma and AllergyNational Awareness Month

Each year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) declares May to be "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month." It's a peak season for asthma and allergy sufferers, and a perfect time to educate your patients, family, friends, co-workers and others about these diseases.
Each year, AAFA asks the President of the United States to officially designate May as National Asthma and Allergy Awareness month. We make it easy for you to join in the activities by inviting you to use AAFA materials and tools to bring healthy messages to work, school and home.
Get the Awareness Month Planning Kit from the EPA (PDF file http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=10&sub=99&cont=457)

Core Medical Review Articles of the Month

2008-05-12T13:08:00.001-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for May

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Article of the Month

2008-05-11T18:17:00.005-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for May

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-12-06T13:17:00.003-05:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for December

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-12-06T13:17:00.000-05:00

Core Medical Review Articles for December

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Update on the New Clinical Pharmacology Interface

2007-11-30T09:23:00.000-05:00

Important: Please share with your staff

Clinical Pharmacology has redesigned its interface to a cleaner more direct format that is centered around the main search box and the use of drop down menus. Visit your familiar Clinical Pharmacology (now titled the Classic version) at http://www.clinicalpharmacology-ip.com/ and click on ‘View Now’ located at top of page to review the new version.

Good news: For your convenience, the original/classic version and the new/updated version will be available simultaneously until March 1st. Then on March 1st, the classic version will be deactivated. Do some comparison searching and let Clinical Pharmacology know what you think about the new version.

Please view the “Quick Reference” guide at:
http://clinicalpharmacology-ip.com/QRG/QRG.pdf.

Coming soon to your mailbox will be the hardcopy of the “Quick Reference” guide or you can contact your library now at 732-8538 for a hardcopy guide. Please distribute guides to appropriate staff. In addition, you can view the tutorials at: http://clinicalpharmacology-ip.com/Tutorial/tutorial.aspx

Online web training is available every week day three times a day. Visit http://www.maintainingthegoldstandard.com/webExTrainingSchedule.htm
to view the online training schedule.

You are offered the opportunity to win a prize if you complete the Clinical Pharmacology's survey.

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-11-05T16:30:00.000-05:00

Core Medical Review Articles for November

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-11-05T16:29:00.000-05:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for November

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

October, 2007 Library News - New Interface for Clinical Pharmacology

2007-10-31T16:25:00.000-04:00

Clinical Pharmacology has redesigned its interface to a cleaner more direct format that is centered around the main search box and the use of drop down menus. Please visit the new interface at http://www.clinicalpharmacology-ip.com/ and click on "View Now" located at top of page. The orientation video is truly informative.

Good news: Once the interface changes, for your convenience, you can still link back to the original site. Do some comparison searching and let Clinical Pharmacology know what you think.

In addition, visit http://www.maintainingthegoldstandard.com/ to view the online training schedule. You are offered the opportunity to win a prize if you complete Clinical Pharmacology's survey.

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-10-08T16:23:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for October

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-10-08T16:20:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for October

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-09-17T16:19:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for September

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-09-17T16:17:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for September

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-08-08T16:15:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for August

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-08-08T16:13:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for August

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

July, 2007 Healthcare Topic - Vaction Safety

2007-07-16T16:06:00.001-04:00

Vacation Safety

Vacations are what make summer! Traveling with your family and friends. Seeing all kinds of new sites or taking comfort in revisiting a favorite spot. Just taking the time to relax and enjoy life, can help make us feel invigorated and refreshed.

However, while we're basking in all our vacationing glory there are some precautions that need to be taken to ensure an uneventful trip and an enjoyable return home.

Burn Injuries Don't Take a Vacation - Burn Foundation

European Safety About.com

Hiking and camping Safety American Red Cross

Hotel Safety Hints Free Travel Tips.com

Tips for Women Traveling Alone International Benefits.com

Traveling & Vacation Safety Tips NCSU Campus Police Department

Travel Safety Tips Corporate Travel Safety

Vacation Safety Burton Fire Rescue, Burton, OH

Vacation Safety Health AtoZ

Vacation Safety Tips Parents Talk / AAA Wisconsin

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-07-16T16:04:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for July

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-07-16T16:02:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for July

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

June, 2007 Library Services News

2007-06-12T15:48:00.000-04:00

Mercy e-Library Learning Center Offers Access to Online Journals

MHP e-Library Learning Center gives you access to thousands of online journals via A-to-Z.
A-to-Z provides a simple way for customers to find the journal titles they need among the many databases and publishers to which the e-Library has access.

Search for journals by keyword or browse an alphabetical list by title or subject. A-to-Z also informs users about availability of electronic sources for each title.

To access A-to-Z, visit the MHP e-Library Learning Center at: http://www.mhplibrary.org/

Choose a Reference
E-Journals
A-to-Z
Type the journal title in the "find" box

For more information on services

available through MHP e-Library Learning Center,

please call 732-8358 or

visit our website:http://www.mhplibrary.org/

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-06-04T15:45:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for June

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-06-04T15:41:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for June

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Winners of the National Library Week Announced

2007-05-02T15:38:00.000-04:00

The library would like to congratulate
the winners of the
$50.00 CharMae Gift Cards!

Congratulations Bonnie Richards (Dietary, MHC) & Hayley Tatum (Behavioral Medicine, MHC).

The library would also like to thank all who participated and visited our new location; we hope to see you again soon!

May, 2007 Healthcare Topic - National Physical Fitness & Sports Month

2007-05-01T15:23:00.000-04:00

National Physical Fitness & Sports Month

May begins National Physical fitness & Sports Month. This is a great time of the year to enjoy being active, whether you're working in your garden, hiking the trails, or playing a game of ball, it just feels good to stretch and work your muscles after the long Winter months.

"According to Melissa Johnson, executive director of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, which started National Physical Activity and Sports Month in 1983, “Americans of all ages need to incorporate more movement in their daily lives. Adults need at least 30 minutes of activity 5 days each week. This can be done by choosing to bike or walk instead of driving, taking stairs instead of elevators, or pushing a lawnmower instead of riding one. Children need at least 60 minutes of active play daily. They need to run, climb, jump, and just get up and move around, away from their desks, the television and computer games.”

Twenty minutes of vigorous physical activity three times a week, such as sports, aerobics, working out in the gym, and running, have added health benefits. Johnson says, “But it’s important to understand that you don’t need to sweat in a gym or run a marathon to reap the health benefits of daily physical activity. Even 30 minutes a day, broken up into shorter increments of ten or fifteen minutes, can greatly improve your health.” - Press release from the President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports.

Take a little time this month to do a little extra activity, you might be pleasantly surprised with the results.

Fitness.Gov

The President's Challenge

National Physical Education and Sports Week May 1st - 7th

National Employee Health & Fitness Day May 16th

Bike to Work Week May 14th - 18th

Soccer Association for Youth (SAY)

YMCA

National Park Service

Ohio State Parks

Center for Disease Control & Prevention Division of Nutrition & Physical Activity

May, 2007 Library Services News

2007-05-01T15:17:00.000-04:00

Research DatabasesAvailable Through MHP Library Services

MEDLINE via Ebsco: Offers an extensive full-text collection of peer-reviewed medical journals.

CINAHL via Ebsco: Offers an extensive full-text collection of core nursing and allied health journals as well as evidence-based care sheets.

PubMed: MEDLINE via National Library of Medicine. Allows access to full-text journals owned by e- Library via LinkOut. Provides a minimal full-text journal collection.

Zynx Health: Analyzes clinical evidence from peer-reviewed literature and national organizations dedicated to quality improvement. Provides order sets, measurement tools, pain manager, and safety optimizer. Updated every six months.

Cochrane Library: Includes evidence-based references from MEDLINE, systematic reviews, and clinical trials.

UpToDate: Summarizes evidence-based references designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Can be used as a point-of-care diagnostic tool. Updated every three months.

Learn more about research databases by visiting the e-Library at: http://www.mhplibrary.org/Library/FAQ.htm

For more information on services

available through MHP Library Services,

please call 732-8358 or

visit our website:http://www.mhplibrary.org/

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-05-01T15:14:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-05-01T15:12:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

April, 2007 Healthcare Topic - Spring Cleaning

2007-04-04T14:57:00.000-04:00

April Healthcare Topic - Spring Cleaning

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. --Virgil A. Kraft

April is a wonderful time to tidy up from the long winter months and enjoy the natural awakening that is occuring within all the flora and fawna. Spring cleaning is a great way to celebrate this awakening by freshening up your yard, your home and your body. So take some time this month and experience the refreshing feeling of new beginnings and fresh starts.

Spring Cleaning a Complete Checklist

Outdoor Spring Cleaning Tips from Bob Vila

Freshen Up from HGTV

Get your body ready for spring

How to Pamper your Skin

Ten tips for Spring Cleaning (Health)

Home Office: Spring Cleaning for you PC

Indoor Air Pollution

Healthy Spring Cleaning

Ten Spring Cleaning Tips for a Healthier Home

April, 2007 Library Services News

2007-04-04T14:45:00.000-04:00

MHP e-Library Learning Center Offers Three New Resources

Analyzes clinical evidence from peer-reviewed literature and national organizations dedicated to quality improvement. Provides order sets, measurement tools, pain manager, and safety optimizer. Updated every six months.Zynx Health can be accessed via the DocView ‘Home’ tab on a Mercy Network PC or remotely via a password at www.zynx.com.
For more information, call Library Services at 513-732-8358 (East) or 513-853-5806 (West).

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Summarizes evidence-based references designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Can be used as a point-of-care diagnostic tool. Updated every three months.UpToDate is available at hospital sites only via the DocView ‘Home’ tab on a Mercy Network PC. For more information, call Library Services at 513-732-8358 (East) or 513-853-5806 (West).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MKSAP 14 Print

MKSAP 14 Print (Parts A and B) encompasses 11 books:

Foundations of Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Rheumatology
Neurology
Hematology and Oncology
Infectious Disease
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
General Internal Medicine
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Nephrology

To borrow MKSAP 14, contact Library Services at 513-732-8358 or lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-04-04T14:39:00.000-04:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for April

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety Articles from PubMed

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-04-04T14:35:00.000-04:00

Core Medical Review Articles for April

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Core Medical Journals from Pubmed

April 15-21 is National Library Week

2007-04-03T14:30:00.000-04:00

Now is the perfect time to visit MHP Library Services

in its new location

Suite 260 in the old Medical Arts Building(Sr. Mary Albert Pavilion)

We're celebrating National Library Week during the entire month of April by givingaway two $50 gift certificates to the CharMae Gift Shop. Visit the library at Clermont and register for your chance to win!Tickets are available for MHP physicians, employees and volunteers (all shifts) at the library.

MHP Library Services has what you need and the staff to help you find it.
Ideas and the space, resources and personal service you need to make them happen.

March, 2007 Library Services News

2007-03-02T14:16:00.000-05:00

MHP Library Services Offers Access to E-Books

MHP Library Services added E-Books to its vast collection of resources.

In addition to Red Book Online, the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice and The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics are now available via any network computer, MercyNow or DocView.

Red Book Online is the online home of the report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases.

Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice is the one source every nurse needs for essential patient assessment and treatment guidelines.

This edition of The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics includes the latest facts on nosocomial infections, West Nile virus, and agents of bioterrorism; the latest management of AIDS/HIV; and current JNC VII guidelines for management of hypertension.

To access E-Books, visit MHP Library Services at: http://www.mhplibrary.org/

Choose a Reference

E-Books

For more information on services
available through MHP Library Services,
please call 732-8358 or visit our web site:
http://www.mhplibrary.org/

March, 2007 Healthcare Topic - National Nutrition Month

2007-03-01T12:04:00.000-05:00

March Healthcare Topic - National Nutrition Month

Wheather you are just trying to learn better eating habits or would like to live a healthier life, National Nutrition Month is a great time to learn about the food you eat. When you become better informed about the food you eat and how it works with your body you will learn how to supply your body with the best fuel for maximum performance.

Women's Nutrition

Eating Well While Eating Out

Nutrition.gov

Nutrition for Children

National Nutrition Month 2007 American Dietetic Association

Men's Nutrition

Nutrition for Seniors

Nutrition for Weight Management

MyPyramid.gov

How to Understand Food Labels

Patient Safety Articles of the Month

2007-03-01T12:02:00.000-05:00

Patient Safety Review Articles for March

Please use the link below to explore the current literature from core medical journals. To order articles that are not available via full text please sing into or create a Loansome Doc account. You may also use the library's online article request form or contact the library at lxservices@health-partners.org.

Patient Safety articles from PubMed

Medical Review Articles of the Month

2007-03-01T11:57:00.000-05:00

Core Medical Review Articles for March

Core Medical Journals from PubMed

January, 2007 Healthcare Topic - New Year's Resolutions

2007-01-11T11:50:00.000-05:00

January Healthcare Topic - New Year's Resolutions

As we enter another new year and look forward to what awaits us as the months roll by, MHP Library Services would like to offer some links that will help you control some of what will come in 2007.

Whether it's weight loss, smoking cessation or better computing habits there's a way to make a fresh start this new year and for the rest of your life.

Happy New Year from MHP Library Services!

Be a Healthy Person

Calculate your Body Mass Index

Evaluating Weight Loss Programs

Financial Resolutions

Keeping your New Year's Resolution

Motivation Tips for Exercise

New Year's Resolutions for your Career

New Year's Resolutions for PC Users

Organizing your Life

Smoking Cessation

December, 2006 Healthcare Topic - Volunteering

2006-12-06T11:44:00.000-05:00

December Healthcare Topic - Volunteering, the gift of giving

The holidays are wonderful times to celebrate old traditions, share time with family and friends and offer gifts to those that are close to your heart. This holiday season, please consider starting a new tradition of volunteering. Becoming a volunteer allows you to share your time with those in need, create new friendships and open your heart to a new way of giving. Volunteering can be a very rewarding way to give back to your community, get in touch with your neighbors and make a difference in your world.

MHP Library Services would like to extend a special thank you to our volunteers who have worked with us this year, and many years past. They have helped make the library a special place for our physicians, nurses, employees and community as well as the library staff. We so appreciate our library volunteers and wish them all the joy, happiness and blessings the holidays bring. They are our shining stars.

The links below are few examples of volunteer opportunties in our community, to find more check your local yellow pages or religious organizations.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from MHP Library Services.

Mercy Health Partners Volunteer Opportunities

Health Alliance Volunteer Opportunites

Kids Cafe Freestore Foodbank

United Way Greater Cincinnati

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

St. Francis Seraph Ministries

Cincinnati Zoo

Cincinnati Arts Association

Salvation Army

Patient Safety Newletters November, 2006

2006-11-30T11:29:00.000-05:00

MHP Library Services - Patient Safety Newsletters
To view patient safety newsletters please click on the link to be taken directly to the most current posted newsletter.

Agency for healthcare Research and Quality

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

National Patient Safety Foundation

So how do I RSS a blog??

2006-10-16T14:05:00.000-04:00

So, you see all the pretty buttons on the side of our blog entry and you wonder what purpose they serve. To find out what the buttons are for and how to use them read this entry from Dave Taylor, http://www.askdavetaylor.com/. Dave give an easy to understand explaination of RSS and how to use the feeds so you can keep up on the latest in information.

**MHP Library Services does not endorse the use of NewsGator Online or any other RSS Reader. This article was choosen because of the versitile, easy to understand instructions and explainations.

How do I subscribe to an RSS feed?

First off, what is an RSS feed? I think I understand it, but I'm not sure. Also, how do I subscribe to an RSS feed and why would I want to?

This is a wonderful question, because it's one I have heard time and again from people. So let's have a stab at this...

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it's basically a computer-readable summary of the content of a Web page. This summary might be just the headlines of the articles on the page, the headlines plus a sentence or two excerpt of the articles, or even the headlines plus the entire articles. These are known as "headline only", "headline + excerpt" and "full text" feeds, respectively.

There are, of course, nuances, because RSS is now used for a lot more than just Web pages comprised of a set of articles (e.g., weblogs). For example, the New York Times has a set of RSS feeds that let you subscribe to just the movie reviews or just their business news.
Typically, you recognize an RSS feed because there's a cute little orange or blue button labeled "XML", "RDF" or "RSS", like this:

The differences between them, and the "Atom" flavor of RSS syndication, are something that us mere mortals can ignore: if you see any of these options, or even a text link labeled "syndicate this site", then you're looking at an RSS-enabled Web site and/or a way to tap into the site's RSS feed.

The real benefit of subscribing to an RSS feed from a site is that you no longer need to visit the site itself to stay up-to-date on what's being discussed. You might be quite interested in the Q&A here at Ask Dave Taylor, but are you going to pop over to the site every day? I doubt it, especially a month from now. Subscribe to the RSS feed, though, and your RSS Reader will do all the work, showing you only what's new since the last time you've checked the RSS feed. And that's the real value of RSS: to be able to stay current with dozens or even hundreds of Web sites, quickly and efficiently.

So that's one side of the equation: RSS feeds offer a succinct machine-readable version of a Web page, often a weblog or news wire. You can view the RSS feed information, written in a markup language called XML (which stands for eXtensible Markup Language, if you're curious), with your Web browser (click on the "movie reviews" link to see what I mean), but it's not going to make any sense to you or your Web browser, most likely. If you see a blank page, try using File --> View Source to see the XML source.

The other side of the equation, the program that does know how to both read and keep track of your favorite RSS feeds is called, logically enough, an RSS Reader, or an RSS Aggregator.
There are a ton of different options for RSS Readers, ranging from standalone applications to plug-ins for popular email programs like Microsoft Outlook, to plug-ins for Web browsers like Firefox. Apple's latest Safari browser for Mac OS X Tiger includes an RSS reader too, for example.

The category of RSS reader I prefer, however, is Web-based, and of the different choices, my favorite is the free Newsgator Online. There are a number of reasons why I prefer a Web-based reader, but the main one is that I can stay up-to-date on the 140 RSS feeds I track from any Web browser, anywhere, even an Internet café or borrowed laptop. It's also elegant, fast, simple, and easy to master.

In fact, let me step through how I add an RSS feed to NewsGator Online so you can see how you go from seeing an orange button on a page to having that RSS feed included in your RSS subscription list!

I'll pick my friend Rajesh Setty's "Life Beyond Code" blog, since it's not just worth reading, it's worth subscribing. To do that, I need to find the XML button, RSS button, RDF button, Atom button, or "Syndicate this site" link. On Rajesh's site, it's an orange XML button, and that button points to the URL http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com/blog/index.xml.

The easy way to grab this URL is to right-click on the orange button itself (or control-click if you're on a Mac). You'll see a menu of options similar to:

As shown, choose "Copy Link". Now you have the RSS feed Web address in your copy/paste buffer. Time to flip over to NewsGator Online and add the feed to your subscription list.
Subscribe to NewsGator Online if you haven't yet done so, then click on "Add Feeds" on the NewsGator page, and you'll see a set of feed subscription options:
As you can see, there are a lot of ways to find cool and interesting -- and professionally helpful -- feeds, but for this situation, we want to just click on "URL & Import". Now you'll see the following:

Just about done. Click into the text input box, then choose Edit --> Paste from your browser menu. The URL from the Life Beyond Code RSS feed should appear. Now click "Add Feed" and you're done!

To read what's new at Life Beyond Code, intermingled with all your other RSS feed subscriptions, just click on the "newsgator online" tab, the top-middle tab in the main navigation area:

Finally, you'll be reading all of your feeds, and it'll look like this:

That's basically it. Notice in this screenshot that my subscription list goes far, far down the screen. There's no way I could keep track of half the news and weblog discussion I do without my RSS reader. Whether it's NewsGator Online, Sage, Safari, NetNewsWire, Pluck, Bloglines or any other RSS reader, I promise that once you start using an RSS reader, you'll never look back!
I hope you not only have a sense of why RSS feeds are so valuable but also can see how to use an RSS reader to grab a feed and add it to your subscription list: the process is remarkably similar regardless of what type of reader you're using.
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Blogbrary Grand Opening

2006-09-01T13:53:00.000-04:00

Welcome to MHP Library Services new Blogbrary!
The intent of this new library space is to provide our patrons with a new medium to learn about library services, investigate monthly healthcare topics, explore the monthly offerings from core journals in medicine, as well as discover innovative practices in patient safety.

We are 'opening the doors' to our Blogbrary in the spirit of National Medical Librarians Month which celebrates the important role that health information professionals play in the care of patients of healthcare facilities and the community.

Now, more than ever, consumers and healthcare professionals need the specialized assistance that medical librarians offer. Just as trail guides are able to navigate into vast landscapes without becoming disoriented, medical librarians can help their patrons stealthily move through vast amounts of information to find the resources that are needed.

So please, take a moment out of your busy day to stop by the library at your facility, send an e-mail or pick up the phone and let your medical librarian know that she is appreciated and a valuable asset to MHP.

With that said, please make our Blogbrary a regular stop in your routine or tag us for syndication (I'll be posting instructions for this in a forth-coming post). We are very excited about our new home on the web and cannot wait to see what potential it holds for our library and our patrons. We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you to use comments frequently as this will help us gauge how to improve our blog so everyone can benefit.
As always, please visit us on the web http://www.mhplibrary.org/.