Want a way to stay up to date on the latest medical news? Check out MedPage Today. MedPage Today is an excellent reliable source for breaking medical news brought to you by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. You can browse medical news by specialty, including nursing. News postings have been peer reviewed by Perelman School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education. In order to see the postings in full, you must register. Registration is free, and...
Nursing and medical books can be fairly expensive, as you well know. For that reason, I try to purchase a copy of each classes’ required textbooks. These books are put on reserve, which means they cannot leave the library. I do this so many students can get a chance to use the books. Additionally, whenever I order books for the nursing programs, my preference is to purchase electronic copies. Many UDM nursing students are rarely, if ever, on campus. It...
Seniors are getting ready to graduate and prepare for the next step in their nursing careers … taking the NCLEX exam. There is an online resource that can help you prep: LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform of practice tests designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. LearningExpress Library includes three NCLEX-RN practice tests, a Flash Review, and one “Power Practice”, which includes “two full-length practice exams based on the...
Just like in CINAHL, you can create an account in PubMed in which you can save citations or searches. The “portal” into personal accounts is called My NCBI. You can create an account by clicking the My NCBI link in the top right corner of PubMed. The newest benefit to searching PubMed when signed into your My NCBI account: Recent Activity. PubMed will automatically save your search activity for 6 months. So, that search I assisted a student with back...
Virtual Autopsy is a website created by Ajay Mark Verma at the University of Leicester. It takes users through … a virtual autopsy. Users pick one of 18 possible cases (located on the left side of the webpage). Virtual Autopsy then gives the patient’s case history: previous history and history on admission. Users can click on the various systems of an interactive cadaver to see the results of the physical exam. The results are mostly narrative, but there is the...
I realize most of you would like to take a break from school and reading class required materials, but for those of you who want to stay in “academic” shape, the British Medical Journal‘s 2013 Christmas research was published a few days ago… enjoy! If you are interested in reading the full article, here is the link: BMJ 2013;347:f7198 Objective To quantify the consumption of chocolates in a hospital ward environment. Design Multicentre, prospective, covert observational study. Setting Four wards...
