Unit 9: Aging patient readings

Click on the links for each article.
Click on  From home, you will need the username and password for OVID. When the article summary shows in OVID, click on the Article in PDF in the right column of the page. The FIRST TWO ARTICLES ARE REQUIRED!!!!! Use the email form if you have any questions.

1. REQUIRED
Presentation of illness in older adults.
Amella EJ.
Am J Nurs. 2004 Oct;104(10):40-51; quiz 52. Review.
PMID: 15492536 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2. REQUIRED
The challenge to come: the care of older adults.
Stotts NA, Deitrich CE.
Am J Nurs. 2004 Aug;104(8):40-7; quiz 48. Review. No abstract available.
PubMed Link was bad.  Click on the link below.


3. Suggested
Nutrition in older adults.
DiMaria-Ghalili RA, Amella E.
Am J Nurs. 2005 Mar;105(3):40-50; quiz 50-1. Review.
PMID: 15729041 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4. Suggested
Functional decline in hospitalized older adults.
Graf C.
Am J Nurs. 2006 Jan;106(1):58-67, quiz 67-8. Review.
PMID: 16481783 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

5. Suggested
Cognitively impaired older adults: from hospital to home.
Naylor MD, Stephens C, Bowles KH, Bixby MB.
Am J Nurs. 2005 Feb;105(2):52-61; quiz 61-2. No abstract available.
PMID: 15674058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6. Suggested
9 myths of incontinence in older adults: both clinicians and the over-65 set need to know more.
Specht JK.
Am J Nurs. 2005 Jun;105(6):58-68; quiz 69. Review.
PMID: 15930873 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Library Online Resources

Library Online Remote Access Sites

email librarian for username and passwords

Use the online request form link at the top right of the page

PubMed (Easy way to look for articles online.)http://www.pubmed.gov/ New changes has made it easier to search for articles. Search here and use the Link Out links to see if there is full text available within OVID and EBSCO. The Library has a How to Sheet. Print it off at School or request a copy with the request form.

DynaMed/Nursing Ref. Center /CINAHL/Health Sourcehttp://search.ebscohost.com/

DrugDex and DrugReax

http://www.thomsonhc.com/

Nursing Journals with OVID

http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=main&CSC=Y&NEWS=n&D=prmz

Stat!Ref

http://www.statref.com/

Online Catalog

www.libraryworld.com/opac

User name/library name: Jameson Health System Library

No password required

Access your Jameson Email

https://webmail.jamesonhealth.org/

You know your email and your password.

Free Helpful Sites

APA Sytle page: http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/apa-style.html
Easy Bib Site.  Enter your information, and then type of style.  It does the work for you. http://www.easybib.com/cite/view

Other style manuals: http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/style-guides.html

Medline Plus
http://medlineplus.gov/
Most Prescribed by Physicians

EzPubMedhttp://www.pubmed.gov/
Online index of Medical articles.
Can order articles from the PubMed through LoansomeDoc.Click the box(s) beside the articles, then use send to dropdown menu, select Order.The Library’s code is PAUCYG. Sign up and complete the form.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM)Univ. of Maryland Medical Centerhttp://www.umm.edu/altmed/
Provides information and interactions for herbal, supplements, drugs, treatments, and depletions.

Medical Encyclopedia
www.umm.edu/ency/index
Medical index of diseases, etc.

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Provides a variety of website for just about any health problem

American Academy of Family Physicians and home of American Family Physician (Journal)http://www.aafp.org/
Has free information on family practice issues. And free full text articles of the Journal: American

Family PhysicianFamily Doctor (also by the AAFP)http://www.familydoctor.org/
Has nicer handouts than American Family Physician. Can get print friendly versions.

Health Finder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Disease information with links to associations related to the disease.

Free E-Books

List compiled by Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Section of Medical Library Association. http://sites.google.com/site/nahrsnursingresources/e-books-for-nurses accessed 4/20/2009.

Gray’s Anatomy Pretty cool pictures

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & TherapyMerck Manual of Health and AgingMerck Manual Home Edition Merck site has great pictures

Merriam Webster Medical DictionaryNotes on Nursing – Link to a PDF document

Patient Safety and Quality -- An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

PubMed Bookshelf - A growing collection of biomedical books by the NCBI

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary -Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills - The book is now considered a classic text in health literacy.

US Preventive Services Task Force - An independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.

NCLEX Question sites

For NCLEX-RN
http://www.studyguidezone.com/nclexrntest.htm
http://www.testprepreview.com/nclex_practice.htm

Always helpful in Studying
http://www.atitesting.com/

For NCLEX-PN
http://www.studyguidezone.com/nclexpntest.htm


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General List of Student Resources

For EKG Strip test strips, go to http://www.google.com/ and search EKG Test Strips.

Try: http://freenursingtutor.com/games/, flash cards, etc. on a variety of topics.

Good Heart Sounds explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge12P7u0aQo

S1 and S2 explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aO0HKIP3vI&NR=1

Anatomy cites:
http://delicious.com/lwu5/anatomy (Wiki site posted by Lin Wu, Librarian at
UTHSC Health Sciences Library, Memphis TN)

Resources found by Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L from the Medical Library at University of Miami
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/patient-education-materials/atlas-of-human-body.shtml
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/index.shtml
http://www.lumen.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/learnem/learnit.htm
Tanya likes this site for her audience of occupational therapists, but it has annoying frames that you have to drag to make the viewing area larger.
http://da.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp The Interactive Body Guide (link on the left) for some reason only shows the frontal view of the body.

Always helpful in Studying
http://www.atitesting.com/