Access The Library's Resources On The Go With Mobile Apps

Did you know that STAT! Ref, Nursing Resource Center, and Dynamed offer mobile apps that you can download for free as part of Jameson Health System's subscription?


Other popular free apps include:
Epocrates Rx
Free drug reference with brand, generic, and OTC medicines, drug interaction check and pill ID.

modalityBODY
The modalityBODY App for iPad enables you to create interactive image libraries of the human body for professional reference, training, and patient education. Compile images from renowned medical texts or from your own photos to create custom collections.

National Library of Medicine Mobile Apps
A variety of apps, including LactMed, PubMed, MedlinePlus and TOXNET.


Eponyms
This app for students gives a short description of more than 1,700 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node).

IDdx
Users can find lists of matching infectious diseases by using the disease search criteria (99 signs & symptoms, 39 epidemiological factors, and 16 regions of the world). The user can see all the symptoms associated with a disease or see all the diseases associated with a symptom.

Medscape

Contact the librarian today to get started.

World Blood Donor Day

Today is World Blood Donor Day. Roll up your sleeve and save a life!

Did you know?
A single unit of donated blood can save up to three lives.

Every year 107 million blood donations are collected worldwide. Approximately half of these are collected in high-income countries, home to only 15% of the world’s population.

Approximately 37 percent of the population is eligible to donate blood, but in Pittsburgh, less than 3 percent do.

Giving blood is fast. The entire life-saving process takes approximately 45 minutes. The actual donation time is only 5-10 minutes.


Requirements to Donate
To donate, you must be in generally good physical health and feeling well that day.

To donate whole blood, you must be at least 17 years old (16 years old with signed parental consent form*) and weigh at least 110 pounds.

There must be at least 56 days between whole blood donations.


Places to Donate
Central Blood Bank
Jameson Health System, South Campus
1000 South Mercer Street
New Castle, PA 16101-4672

Tuesday, 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Call 1-866-366-6771 to schedule an appointment.

American Red Cross Donor Center
125 North Jefferson Street
New Castle, PA 16101

2nd and 4th Wednesday, noon to 6 p.m. (Whole Blood)
To schedule a blood donation appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS (800-733-2767).

Before You Go
You can do a few things before you give blood to make sure that you have a good experience:

• Make sure you feel well. Don't give blood if you feel ill.
• Eat a good breakfast or lunch. But avoid fatty foods. They can affect some of the tests done on donated blood to make sure it's safe.
• Drink plenty of fluids.
• Get plenty of sleep the night before.

Patient Safety Resources

Your librarian just started her second week of  five-week patient course titled "The Science of Safety in Healthcare" by Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, Peter J. Pronovost.

Here are a few recommended resources from the course:

The Joint Commission 2013 National Patient Safety Goals

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century  (free PDF book)

The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
The Armstrong Institute’s goal is to eliminate preventable harm to patients and to achieve the best patient outcomes at the lowest cost possible, and then to share knowledge of how to achieve this goal with the world. Created with a $10 million gift from C. Michael Armstrong, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees, the institute also provides an infrastructure that, for the first time, oversees, coordinates and supports patient safety and quality efforts across Johns Hopkins’ integrated health care system.

 Ask Me 3    
Ask Me 3 is a patient education program designed to improve communication between patients and health care providers, encourage patients to become active members of their health care team, and promote improved health outcomes.

TeamSTEPPS 
 TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based teamwork system designed for health care professionals. TeamSTEPPS is presented in a multimedia format, with tools to help the health care organization plan, conduct, and evaluate its own team training program. All materials are available online and in printed copies at AHRQ Clearinghouse.

World Health Organization: Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide
Patient safety is not specific to one health profession; all health professional learning should include patient safety competencies. The 2011 WHO Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide was developed to satisfy this demand for a single coordinated approach, pulling individual strands of work from health-care professionals into a systems-based, team-dependent approach, to ensure patient safety learning is delivered in an integrated way.

For more information, please e-mail dthimons@jamesonhealth.org or call extension 4050.