http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/ This blog is a communication tool to provide information about health sciences resources to UNLV students and faculty. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:50:25 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Joint Commission, which accredits health care organizations and programs, has valuable information on standards and measures on its website. The Patient Safety section includes a "Do Not Use" list among its resources. A new report on the site is "One Size Does Not Fit All: Diverse Populations Pose Special Health Needs."]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/joint_commission_reports.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/joint_commission_reports.html Medicine Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:50:25 -0800 NHQR State Snapshots that shows how your state ranks in health care. You can look at the different states by clicking on a map.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/nhqr_state_snapshots.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/nhqr_state_snapshots.html Medicine Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:35:52 -0800 Hepatitis C Investigation in a Las Vegas, Nevada, Endoscopy Clinic" from the Centers for Disease Control. "Hepatitis C Investigation" from the Southern Nevada Health District. "SNHD Hepatitis C Investigation" from the Nevada State Health Division.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/03/hepatitis_c_and_las_vegas.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/03/hepatitis_c_and_las_vegas.html Public Health Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:48:07 -0800 Las Vegas Review-Journal.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/march_of_dimes_distinguished_n.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/march_of_dimes_distinguished_n.html Nursing Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:44:17 -0800 ORLivedotcom It lists 403 videos.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/you_tube_and_surgical_videos.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/you_tube_and_surgical_videos.html Technology Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:43:30 -0800 Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups." It describes how Dr. Loring Jacobs, an internist in Las Vegas, sends a video e-mail so that he can provide routine test results in a more personal way, as well as provide details about the results.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/reporting_test_results_by_vide.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/reporting_test_results_by_vide.html Technology Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:40 -0800 There will be a Joint Chapter Meeting of the Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona in Las Vegas February 6-9, 2008. One of the plenary session speakers is Dr. Mary Guinan, from UNLV's School of Public Health. Her topic will be "Public Health Experiences in Nevada: From Cancer Clusters to Hanta Virus." http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/joint_mla_chapter_meeting.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/joint_mla_chapter_meeting.html Conferences Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:03:13 -0800 Asian Journal Online noted that Belen Gabato, one of the founders of the Philippine Nurses Association of Las Vegas, has been appointed by Governor Gibbons to the Nevada Board of Nursing. ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/12/belen_gabato_appointed_to_neva.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/12/belen_gabato_appointed_to_neva.html Nursing Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:54:31 -0800 shortage of nursing faculty. UNLV and UNR have received a $ 710,000 grant to fund an accelerated nursing doctoral program. Dr. Candela of the School of Nursing is quoted in the article.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/09/nursing_faculty_shortage.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/09/nursing_faculty_shortage.html Nursing Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:11:05 -0800 Blackwell Synergy Backfiles Over 2.7 million pages and access to 191 journal titles, this backfile collection contains the full-text journal issues going back to the first volume of each journal through 1996. Includes a broad scope of disciplines covering medicine and health care, sciences, humanities and social sciences. Elsevier Health Sciences Encyclopedias This 15 title collection includes: Encyclopedia of Cancer, Encyclopedia of Endocrine Disease, Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition, Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Encyclopedia of Hormones, Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Encyclopedia of Immunology, Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, Encyclopedia of Toxicology, Encyclopedia of Virology, Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs. Sage Premier Online Journals Deep Backfile Collection Sage Deep Backfiles includes perpetual electronic access to the deep backfile of 301 journals, 357,000 issues, and approximately 4,284,000 articles. The majority of Sage's peer-reviewed scholarly journals are in the subject areas of: business, education, engineering, fine arts, health sciences, hotel, liberal arts, sciences, and urban affairs. 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Science Direct Backfiles Medicine and Dentistry package and Lancet 17 specialty subjects with over 340 titles and over 600,000 full text articles, going back to 1823: Allergology, Rheumatology and Immunology Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Medicine Clinical Neurology Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine Forensic Medicine, Pathology and Medical Technology Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism General Medicine Hematology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health Oncology Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Perinatology, Pediatrics and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental Health Public Health and Health Policy Radiology and Imaging Respiratory, Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Surgery ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/07/new_health_sciences_resources.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/07/new_health_sciences_resources.html Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:37:49 -0800 Dr. Afshin Azimi.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/04/dentist_to_las_vegas_wranglers.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/04/dentist_to_las_vegas_wranglers.html Dentistry Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:49:54 -0800 Today at UNLV the School of Nursing presented its 2nd annual Faculty/Student Scholarship Showcase Day. There were 26 posters on display, demonstrating nursing research on a wide variety of topics. I really enjoyed the opportunity to see them all. http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/04/facultystudent_scholarship_sho.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/04/facultystudent_scholarship_sho.html Nursing Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:50:55 -0800 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released "Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care." The lengthy report is downloadable at http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/nursestaff/nursestaff.pdf]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/03/nurse_staffing_and_quality_of.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/03/nurse_staffing_and_quality_of.html Nursing Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:57:51 -0800 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/03/national_sample_survey_of_regi.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/03/national_sample_survey_of_regi.html Nursing Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:59:26 -0800 Winter 2006 issue of UNLV's Innovation Magazine is available on the web now. One of the articles is about the researchers in the School of Public Health. Among the community projects mentioned: A team headed by Dr. Shawn Gerstenberger is analyzing lead levels in Mexican candy sold locally. He has received over $ 1.5 million in grants for this research. Dr. Chad Cross received $ 1 million federal grant to create the Nevada Center for Environmental and Health Surveillance. Dr. Michelle Chino and Dr. Mary Guinan received a $ 1.2 million grant in 2004 that resulted in the establishment of the Center for Health Disparities Research at UNLV. ]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/01/innovation_magazine.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/01/innovation_magazine.html Public Health Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:09:56 -0800