DynaMed is going away

Unfortunately, due to budget constraints and low user numbers, the Library will not be renewing DynaMed for 2010. Many of you found this to be a useful tool that you could use from anywhere, including your office, but at $9350.00 per year, it was not sustainable. Please feel free to call the Library if you need clinical information--the hospital has access to UptoDate, a similar point of care tool, and I am always glad to send copies of topics as needed, or other resources.

Free CE on Helping Patients with Obesity

Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity is offering 1.0 credit hours for nurses on helping obese patients in clinical practice.

Weight Bias in Clinical Settings


Research shows that weight stigma in health care settings has a significant negative impact on obese patients’ health. Recognizing that providers face complex challenges in treating their obese patients, this course is designed to help clinicians improve delivery of care for this growing patient population. This course aims to increase awareness of the sources of weight bias in health care and provides a range of practical strategies to optimize the health care experience for overweight and obese patients.

Also available:
Toolkit for Helping Obese Patients
AMA's Primer for Physicians on Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity

STEMI: Independent Study for 1.5 Contact Hours

Claire Karis at Montgomery's CPR Training Center is offering STEMI: ST Elevation MI Independent Study.

Review the learning objectives.
Read the text.
Take the online test and evaluation.
Print the CE certificate.

To reigster call Claire Karis at x2313 or ckaris[at]mont-hosp.com

Featured Library Book: Difficult Conversations in Medicine

Difficult Conversations in Medicine, edited by Elisabeth Macdonald, is a collection of essays about effective communication between health care professionals, patients, and families. Topics range from legal and ethical issues, to planning for such conversations, apologies, strong emotions and cross-cultural issues. Dr. Macdonald is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist from London, and writes in the context of the NHS and , and mostly from the point of view of physicians but will also be useful to other healthcare professionals. Finally, there is an appendix of transcriptions of illustrative conversations in order to see how others have approached them. A review of this book is available in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. You can find this book on the shelves at the library at W 62 D569 2004.

Related:
Cecil Textbook of Medicine
A Practical Guide to Palliative Care
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients

The National Center of Continuing Education provides accredited CE that you can complete both online or offline. If you prefer to read printed materials, then this is an option. Courses are mostly in the $3-$5 per credit range.

Topics include, among others:
General Nursing
Getting Older

CE through the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association

The Pennsylvania State Nurses Association(PSNA) offers free or low cost CE to members on their PSNA CEWeb, and for $10.00 for non-members. If you are a member of PSNA, then make sure to check out the options. Classes range from career development, to medication safety, to disaster planning.

Free CE on COPD and Asthma thru 10-03-10

cmecorner is offering 1.0 contact hr for Nurse Practitioners/Advanced Practice Nurses on Breathing Easier: Management Strategies for Uncontrolled Asthma and COPD, with an educational grant from AstraZeneca.

Upon completion of this educational activity, the participant should be able to:
1.
Explain the rationale for the recent changes to both asthma and COPD treatment guidelines.
2.
Compare the benefits of ICS, LABA, and combination therapies with their associated risk profiles.
3.
Identify the appropriate patient groups who may benefit from ICS, LABA, and combination therapies.
4.
Describe the disparities in asthma and COPD care in older adults and minorities.

Free CE on Case Based Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis thru 9/30/11

Prime, Inc and Teva Neuroscience are offering a free CE course on Case-Based Assessments in Therapeutic Management of Multiple Sclerosis thru September 30, 2011.

Nurse CNE Continuing Education
PRIME Education, Inc. (PRIME®) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
PRIME® designates this activity for 1.5 contact hour(s).

Case Manager Continuing Education
The Commission for Case Manager Certification designates this educational activity for 1.5 contact hour(s) for certified case managers.