Health Knowledge Consultants

Medical Library Association (MLA) Approved Continuing Education Courses

Current courses:

• Getting Magnetized - Search and Service Strategies for Nursing Excellence by Joy Kennedy and Margaret (Peg) Allen
  • First taught online May - July 2009. 
  • New  online session Oct. 8- Nov. 18, 2009.  Six week online course carries 8 hours MLA CE credits.
  • Four hour version taught in person by Joy Kennedy at Health Science Librarians of Illinois Annual Conference 2008 . Contact Joy if interested in an in person course.
  • Learn about the information needs of nurses in clinical and education settings.  Reflect on strategies to meet these needs in relation to accreditation and certification standards, especially as they relate to the ANCC Magnet Nursing Initiative.  Identify collaborative education and service strategies to improve imformation services for nurses and nursing students in your organization.  This course has been completely updated to match the requirements in the 2008 Magnet manual.
  • While this course is open to all interested students, it is particularly of interest to librarians in Magnet aspiring or designated hospitals, as well as academic nursing librarians working with nursing faculty and students.  Interest in the Magnet initiative is growing in academic institutions, where faculty may be requested to consult with institutions on the Magnet journey and supervise studies in Magnet institutions.
  • Online Registration form.  If you have any questions, contact Joy Kennedy (j1kennedy at nch.org) or Peg Allen (pegallen67 at gmail.com).

• Expert Searching for Evidence Based Nursing by Margaret (Peg) Allen with contributions from Joy Kennedy, Kathy Fatkin, Pamela Sherwill Navarro, Susan Kaplan Jacobs and Tanya Feddern Bekcan.
  • If you work with nursing faculty & students and/or nurse managers & staff, this course will help you develop your search skills, so that you can improve search services for these groups. In addition to databases and searching, it includes discussion of teaching and collaboration skills. The course includes a model for evidence based searching, overview of nursing terminology, and practice searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Mosby's Nursing Index. Learners are expected to contribute to online discussions in a timely manner.
    • Online only; first session August 20 - October 1, 2009. Registration/waiting list. for session scheduled for November 19, 2009 or interest in 2010 sessions.

Courses taught by Margaret (Peg) Allen:

Please contact Peg if interested in offering updated content based on these older courses at a professional meeting

• Expert Searching for Nursing and Allied Health by Margaret (Peg) Allen and June Levy

Links from syllabus current October 2006

References

• My presentations from Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Symposium (6 hours MLA CE)

Catch the Wave: Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 3, 2003

• What do nurses cite: NAHRS Mapping the Literature of Nursing summary report, with June Levy
• Electronic full-text for nursing: books, journals, virtual libraries
• Searching for evidenced-based resources for nursing

• Finding the Best Evidence to Meet Nursing Information Needs - no longer available
  • Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona, Irvine, CA, October 3, 2005 (4 hours)
  • Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries and the Southern ArizonaBiomedical Librarians, Phoenix, April 15, 2005 (6 hours)
  • Indiana Health Science Librarians Association, South Bend, April 6, 2005 (4 hours)
  • Tennessee Health Science Library Association (THeSLA), Nashville, September 29, 2004 (6 hours)
  • Ohio Health Science Library Association Conference, Columbus, March 31, 2003 (4 hours)
  • The Capital District Library Council, at the New York State Nurses Association,, Albany, March 26, 2003 (6 hours)
  • Michigan Health Science Library Association Conference, Ann Arbor - Wednesday October 16, 2002 (4 hours)

Course approved for 4 to 6 hours MLA CE Credit

Finding the Best Evidence to Meet Nursing Information Needs is a workshop for health sciences librarians who want to improve their ability to serve nursing managers, staff, faculty, and students. The course is also appropriate for nurses. It focuses on the best evidence-based information resources for nursing practice and research, including databases, websites, and the knowledge-based literature. The instructor will review high-quality information resources and demonstrate search techniques for finding answers to nursing questions submitted by participants. The instructor and participants will share and discuss ideas for meeting nursing information needs in both academic and practice settings.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe knowledge-based information needs of nurses in clinical and educational settings and reflect on strategies to meet these needs
2. Identify high quality websites, subject directories and bibliographic databases for nursing.
3. Search for evidence-based nursing resources via Internet, CINAHL and MEDLINE
4. Find resources for nursing practice & management questions, such as competencies, job delineation, practice acts, licensing, organizations, legislative and economic issues
5. Identify marketing strategies to improve knowledge-based information services for nurses and nursing students in their organization, based on an understanding of nursing information needs. (6 hour version only)

• Finding the Best Answers to Nursing Questions - no longer available
  • Dallas, Texas May 18, 2002.   Course approved for 6 hours MLA CE Credit; replaced by course noted above
    

• Nursing Information Access: Library Services for the Nursing Profession

• Course approved for 8 hours MLA CE Credit; last taught October 2001 at Triple Chapter Meeting in New Orleans

Nursing Information Access covers unique aspects of nursing and its knowledge-based information resources that impact information services for the nursing profession. It includes the development of nursing and its literature, assessment of nursing information needs, development of library services for nurses, and nursing information resources in all formats. The organizing framework will be the feedback lecture, with liberal use of audiovisuals and database/online demonstrations. Instructors will demonstrate effective database and Internet search techniques based on participant search questions. Participants will receive a syllabus including information presented in class, key Internet resources, sample resources, and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, the participant will be able to:

1. Understand the relationship of nursing information access issues to trends in nursing education and practice
2. Understand how nurses use knowledge-based information
3. Identify Internet resources related to current nursing issues and information needs.
4. Identify appropriate tools for developing collections of print and non-print information resources for nursing, including virtual collection development.
5. Understand the key features, similarities, and differences of the NLM and CINAHL databases.
6. Identify additional electronic databases and Internet resources relevant to nurses' knowledge-based information needs.
7. Describe key elements of successful bibliographic instruction for nurses.
8. Discuss issues in the delivery of nursing information services in both educational and clinical settings.
9. Identify marketing strategies to improve knowledge-based information services for nurses and nursing students in their organization, based on an understanding of how they use knowledge-based information.
   

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