Presenter:  Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Aquilent

Location:  Free, Online:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/ (the URL is posted the morning of each session)

Date:  September 11, 2012

Description: Ms. Champ-Blackwell promotes and implements the disaster health information goals of the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and for the Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership.

Learn about NLM disaster information resources and emergency response tools. See a demo of the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) and how it can provide emergency responders with critical information in the palm of their hand.

MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

Business Week reported this week on the growth of telemedicine in rural areas in an effort to mitigate physician shortages:  http://tinyurl.com/8cwpjyo.

Kids.gov is the U.S. government’s website for children (grades K-8). Kids, parents, and teachers can use the site to get help with homework, access lesson plans, watch videos, play games, and more.

If you’ve visited Kids.gov previously, you’ll notice that the website has been completely redesigned. The vibrant new site provides areas for three specific audiences: kids (grades K-5), teens (grades 6-8), and grown-ups (teachers and parents).

Enjoy exploring all that Kids.gov has to offer, including the following examples:

• How to Become President of the United States — Check out a colorful and informative poster to help kids understand the process of becoming President.
• Videos Featuring Various Careers — View videos describing different professions, ranging from an archeologist with the National Park Service to an executive chef at the White House.
• How Parents Can Get Involved –  Get homework tips, learn about school meal programs, find out how to help stop bullying, and more.
• Lesson Plans — Teachers can find lesson plans on math, history, science, music, and other topics.

MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

Location:  Free, Online:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/ (the URL is posted the morning of each session)

Date:  September 27, 2012

Awardee: Kristina Flathers, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children of The Nemours Foundation
Project: iRound: Bringing EBM to Family Centered Clinical Teaching Rounds
Description: The project outfited three General Pediatrics Residency teams with iPads; one each will be distributed to the senior resident, the attending physician, the librarian and the nurse. Each team member was given the capability to access electronic medical records (EMRs) through the iPad on the Nemours secure network and perform their own searches within the library portal for access to electronic EBM and library resources.

Awardee: Bruce Johnston, Robert Morris University
Project: Advancing Technology in Nursing Education: Integrating iPads into Clinical Practice and Patient Education
Description: Robert Morris Library and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences, along with UPMC Passavant, used state-of-the-art technology to augment and improve nursing education as well as patient education activities. By adding iPad2 devices and relevant apps, this project improved the technology mix for accessing health information. Nursing students were the target audience, along with clinical instructors working with the student nurses on patient care units, as well as the RMU Clinical Faculty Instructor and Health Sciences Librarian.

Awardee: Joey Nicholson, New York University School of Medicine
Project: Pilot Project using Anatomy Apps and Mobile Resources to Improve Learning in the Anatomy Lab
Description: NYU purchased an iPad for the Education and Curriculum Librarian to support and demonstrate new anatomy teaching technology, as well as 30 copies of the Netter’s Anatomy Atlas iPad application and Grant’s Dissector through Inkling to be used on 30 NYU School of Medicine iPads supplied to the anatomy lab. At the beginning of their anatomy course, students received a demonstration from the Librarian of how to access and use the iPads that included an overview of what is in each of the apps and how they can be used to support anatomy education. Students were able to go back and forth between the 3D visualization and the reference applications in real time as they dissected cadavers to support their learning and retention.

Awardee: Cristina Pope, Upstate University Health System, Health Sciences Library
Project: Emergency Preparedness: Enhancing Communication and Access to Health Information Resources
Description: The pilot project’s primary objective was to determine whether the incorporation of an iPad loaded with emergency preparedness resources and an online synchronous communication application would enhance the Emergency Preparedness Regional Partnership’s ability to prepare for catastrophic events through planning; provide a forum to strengthen collaboration among emergency preparedness partners throughout the healthcare system; facilitate the development of exercises and evaluations; facilitate the delivery of emergency preparedness training and education; provide information sharing and communication between preparedness partners and build emergency response capability.

Mesa County Advanced Practice Center is hosting a webinar on their toolkit, Blueprint for the Use of Volunteers in Hospitals and Rural Medical Centers, on September 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Mesa APC toolkit, Blueprint for the Use of Volunteers in Hospitals and Rural Medical Centers. The Blueprint Toolkit has been used to help local public health agencies, hospitals, and Medical Reserve Corps units coordinate in the development of volunteer management plans and training/exercise programs.  The toolkit is divided into four primary areas, which we will cover during this webinar: identify and organize your partners into a planning team, hospital emergency operations plan orientation, establish a training and exercise program, and just-in-time training for volunteer integration.

Register for this webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/978253665. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing instructions for joining the webinar.

The toolkit can be accessed at http://health.mesacounty.us/MesaAPC/.

NEW: Now you can watch a video on how to start the volunteer integration process! The video features several of the key players in our planning process in 2010! http://youtu.be/GbpfogmwTjM

Go to https://medicalreservecorps.gov/pageViewFldr/MRCListservs to subscribe to the two-way listserv.

Go to https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=MRCLEADERS-L&A=1 to unsubscribe from the two-way listserv.

The National Library of Medicine Specialized Information Services is interested to know if your library has worked with organizations (schools of public health, state or local government, CBOs, etc.) that conduct outreach, education or training to people over 50 who are HIV positive or do HIV prevention for those over 50?  The organizations can work directly with the over 50 groups or provide training to those who serve this group.  We are looking to contact these groups and solicit any materials that they have created as well as querying them on what resources they would need.  If you know of such groups can you pleased provide their contact information to:

Andrew Plumer

Outreach Librarian

Specialized Information Services

National Library of Medicine

Email: plumera@mail.nih.gov

Phone: 301-451-4451

This week MAR announced the inaugural issue of our quarterly newsletter–The MAReport.

Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature. Also, please share the newsletter with colleagues and friends:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.

This article highlights the impact of several disasters across the U.S. this summer on local libraries.  Read about how the libraries responded to wildfires, a derecho, floods and more!

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/08132012/library-heroes-shelter-evacuees-summer-2012