Featured Book - Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action, edited by Donna Middaugh, Associate Dean, UAMS College of Nursing, Donna M. Nickitas and Nancy Aries.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and health care providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics.

This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how health care professionals can get involved an be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients.

Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a toolkit that includes a "skills" section of how-tos.
- From Barnes and Noble

WA 540 AA1 P758 2011
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions/edited by Donna Middaugh, Donna Nickitas, and Nancy Aries
Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2011

E-Reserves/Docutek Unavailable Wednesday, June 2

Due to a scheduled server migration, E-Reserves/Docutek will be unavailable Wednesday, June 2.

Library Closed Memorial Day - Monday, May 31, 2010

The library will be closed Memorial Day. The 24x7 study area will continue to be open for students and residents who have ID badge access.

Library 24/7 Area Closed Monday, May 17 at 10:00pm

Due to an electrical outage on Monday, May 17 between 11:30pm and 2:30am the 24/7 area will close at 10:00pm on Monday, May 17 and not reopen until Tuesday, May 18 at 7:30am.

UAMS Computer Systems Scheduled Outage Sunday, May 16 4:30 to 6:00am

All network connectivity will be unavailable during this time. This includes Internet, e-mail, Citrix, VPN, SAP, Printing, all clinical applications and interfaces including Sunrise, Logician, Webchart, etc. More...

Featured Book - Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging, edited by William E. Erkonen and Wilbur L. Smith.

Featuring over 900 state-of-the-art images, Radiology 101, Third Edition provides the basic groundwork necessary for interpreting images and understanding how current imaging modalities function. Subsequent chapters examine anatomic areas and organ systems, includinga separate chapter on the pediatric chest and abdomen. Clearly labeled images show normal anatomy from various angles with various modalities and depict normal variants and common pathology. Each chapter includes suggested radiologic workups and key points summaries. This edition has extensive updates, especially on nuclear imaging (PET/CT), computed tomography (Multi-slice), magnetic resonance (DWI, t-MRI, MRS), sonography (FAST), abdominal imaging (CT urography), mammography (digital mammograms), and the many indications for interventional radiology.

-From Amazon

WN 180 R118 2010

Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging/edited by William E. Erkonen and Wilbur L. Smith

Philadelphia: Wolters Klewer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010

Health Information Relevant to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

In response to the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine has created a new page of links to information on Crude Oil Spills and Health (Via NN/LM SCR)