HealthLinks, May 2005

Check out interesting facts about nursing

The nation's nurses top the list in Gallup's annual survey on the public perception of honesty and ethical standards of various professions

• UW School of Nursing consistently ranks #1 in US News & World Report annual surveys of graduate schools
• Marla Salmon chosen as dean of UW School of Nursing

A new electronic resource offered by the Health Sciences Libraries that includes:

• Evidence-Based Care Sheets
• Quick Lessons
• Drug Information
• Practice Guidelines
• Research Instruments

A recent Cochrane Library review evaluates the impact of doctor-nurse substitution in primary care on patient outcomes, process of care, and resource utilization, including cost.

Patient outcomes were comparable. Read this JAMA study and the discussion surrounding it (see citation links at the bottom of the article).

See our What's New page to find out about several new electronic nursing textbooks have just been added to our collection, including Nursing Procedures and Brunner and Suddath's Textbook of Med-Surg Nursing .

Use the Nurse Toolkit, a "one-stop" web page with key resources for clinical practice, such as drug sources, databases, and nursing textbooks.

Nurse researchers can use the Finding Measurement Tools tutorial and the Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database .

Keep up with new literature by saving PubMed search strategies on My NCBI in order to generate automatic e-mail updates.

This database covers the issues of international public health by indexing over 3500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and patents. It uses the CAB Thesaurus for subject terms and British spelling in its abstracts. For more information, see What's New. [Posted 5/31/05 taj]