The MSU Libraries is pleased to announce a new nursing resource: Nursing Education in Video.

Nursing Education in Video has streaming videos for many nursing subjects (Anatomy/Physiology, Basic Clinical Skills, Cardiology, Communications, Gerontology, Infection Control, Medical Administration, Obstetrical Nursing, Pediatrics, and more). Videos can be linked to or embedded in course management systems (like ANGEL or D2L), word documents, PowerPoint files, etc. – just click on the “Link/Embed” icon on a video’s page. All have synchronized, searchable transcripts that run alongside each video. Users can create shortened clips of videos if they’re only interested in certain parts of videos, although creating a free account is necessary to do so. Permissions for in-class, on-campus, and remote-access viewing are all included in the terms of the subscription, as are no-fee public performance rights.

Heidi Schroeder, the CON library liaison, will be holding a library training session for CON staff and any research/student assistants who assist CON faculty. The session will be held on Friday, January 13, from 10am-noon in B109 Life Sciences.

The following topics will be covered:

• Obtaining full-text articles
• Creating stable links
• Journal alerts
• Impact Factors
• Cited Reference Searching
• InterLibrary Loan/Book Delivery/MSU Article Retrieval Service
• Q & A

Those interested in attending should please RSVP to Heidi by Monday, January 9th.

The MSU Libraries has access to several e-books from the American Nurses Association (ANA). These books allow unlimited simultaneous (MSU) users.

• Guide to the code of ethics for nurses: interpretation and application
• Nursing: scope and standards of practice
• Nursing's social policy statement: the essence of the profession
• Nursing administration: scope and standards of practice
• Teaching IOM: implications of the Institute of Medicine reports for nursing education
• Transplant nursing: scope and standards of practice
• Genetics and ethics in health care: new questions in the age of genomic health

The MSU Libraries now has access to Nursing Reference Center!!

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) provides a user-friendly point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface. iPhone and iPod Touch users can download a NRC application from the iTunes store.

If you have questions about Nursing Reference Center, please contact Heidi Schroeder, the MSU Library Liaison to the College of Nursing.

Library Office Hours for the College of Nursing for the Fall 2011 semester will be on Thursdays from 2-4 p.m. in the CON Media Lab. CON students, faculty, and staff are welcome to drop-in or schedule a block of time to meet with the Nursing Librarian, Heidi Schroeder. Due to a few vacations, conferences, and meeting conflicts, check here for office hour exceptions/cancellations before heading over: http://staff.lib.msu.edu/hschroed.

If Thursdays from 2-4 do not work for you, contact Heidi via email, chat, or phone to set up an appointment: http://staff.lib.msu.edu/hschroed.