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About Lisa

I have been a Clinical Informationist (aka Medical Librarian) for Emory University since September 2013. Prior to that, I was a Medical Librarian for Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) from March 2007 to August 2013 and served its DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM), Caylor School of Nursing, and allied health programs. From January 2002 - March 2007, I served the Medical Assisting (MA), Occupational Therapy Assistant, Physical Therapy Assistant, Radiologic Technologist, and Nursing programs at South College in Knoxville, Tennessee. I graduated from The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences with a Master of Science degree in December 2000. Received a Educational Specialist (EdS) degree in Educational Administration and Supervision with a higher education focus in August 2010 from LMU.

Vasopressor agents and development of pressure ulcers

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Five articles were found that provide evidence on patients’ usage of vasopressor agents and subsequent development of pressure ulcers.

In order to be able to use the Find it @ Emory button within article entries to look at the full text, please use these instructions to access the collection.
Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library’s homepage at http://health.library.emory.edu/
Click on “PubMed.”
Copy and paste the url into the address bar of your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/54337604/public/

Literature on fall reduction, specifically in the cognitively/neurologically impaired

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Medical Education & Technologies Informationist searched PubMed with some of these following terms: cognitive function, cognitive impairment, nervous system disease, neurological impairment, and accident falls/prevention.

You can see the full search here.

Below are some of the articles that were found with the search.

Lipardo DS, Aseron AMC, Kwan MM, Tsang WW. Effect of Exercise and Cognitive Training on Falls and Fall-Related Factors in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2017Oct;98(10):2079-2096. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2017.04.021. Epub 2017 May 26. Review.
PubMed PMID: 28554873. Full text

Jensen L, Padilla R. Effectiveness of Environment-Based Interventions That Address Behavior, Perception, and Falls in People With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Major Neurocognitive Disorders: A Systematic Review. Am J Occup Ther. 2017 Sep/Oct;71(5):7105180030p1-7105180030p10. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2017.027409. PubMed PMID: 28809653.

Lach HW, Harrison BE, Phongphanngam S. Falls and Fall Prevention in Older Adults With Early-Stage Dementia: An Integrative Review. Res Gerontol Nurs. 2017
May 1;10(3):139-148. doi: 10.3928/19404921-20160908-01. Epub 2016 Sep 23. Review. PubMed PMID: 27665756.

Rushton C. Problematising the problem: a critical interpretive review of the literature pertaining to older people with cognitive impairment who fall while hospitalised. Nurs Inq. 2016 Jun;23(2):148-57. doi: 10.1111/nin.12126. Epub 2016 Feb 2. Review. PubMed PMID: 26833849.

Gunn H, Markevics S, Haas B, Marsden J, Freeman J. Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Falls and Improve Balance in Adults With Multiple Sclerosis. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2015 Oct;96(10):1898-912. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2015.05.018. Epub 2015 Jun 10. Review. PubMed PMID: 26070975. Full text

Bhidayasiri R, Jitkritsadakul O, Boonrod N, Sringean J, Calne SM, Hattori N, Hayashi A. What is the evidence to support home environmental adaptation in Parkinson’s disease? A call for multidisciplinary interventions. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2015 Oct;21(10):1127-32. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.08.025. Epub 2015 Aug 25. Review. PubMed PMID: 26365779. Full text

Booth V, Hood V, Kearney F. Interventions incorporating physical and cognitive elements to reduce falls risk in cognitively impaired older adults: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 2015 Sep 16;13(8):5-13. doi: 10.11124/jbisrir-2015-2220. Review. PubMed PMID: 26455930. Full text

Sosnoff JJ, Sung J. Reducing falls and improving mobility in multiple sclerosis. Expert Rev Neurother. 2015 Jun;15(6):655-66. doi: 10.1586/14737175.2015.1046377. Epub 2015 May 14. Review. PubMed PMID: 25973774.

Burton E, Cavalheri V, Adams R, Browne CO, Bovery-Spencer P, Fenton AM, Campbell BW, Hill KD. Effectiveness of exercise programs to reduce falls in older people with dementia living in the community: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Interv Aging. 2015 Feb 9;10:421-34. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S71691. eCollection 2015. Review. PubMed PMID: 25709416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4330004. Full text

Chan WC, Yeung JW, Wong CS, Lam LC, Chung KF, Luk JK, Lee JS, Law AC. Efficacy of physical exercise in preventing falls in older adults with cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2015 Feb;16(2):149-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.08.007. Epub 2014 Oct 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 25304179. Full text

Ayoubi F, Launay CP, Annweiler C, Beauchet O. Fear of falling and gait variability in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2015 Jan;16(1):14-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.06.020. Epub 2014 Sep 16. Review. PubMed PMID: 25230892. Full text

Guo JL, Tsai YY, Liao JY, Tu HM, Huang CM. Interventions to reduce the number of falls among older adults with/without cognitive impairment: an exploratory meta-analysis. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Jul;29(7):661-9. doi: 10.1002/gps.4056. Epub 2013 Dec 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 24318959.

EHC staff may request full text of articles for which links to full text are not provided above via Ask a Librarian.

MW email to MedRef patron, 2/1/18

Nurse-patient ratios and patient satisfaction

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Follow these instructions to access 20 relevant articles in PubMed.
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage at http://health.library.emory.edu
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then copy and paste this link into your browser address bar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/54009478/public/
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference, and you will see a Find it at Emory to the right of it which will provide availability for full text. If you are an Emory Healthcare employee who is not able to access full text, you may submit citation(s) to Ask a Librarian. Library staff will get article(s) for you and email them to you.

A few of the references are included in the collection because of their inclusion in a table listing articles about patient satisfaction in the following systematic review.

​Lang, T. A., Hodge, M., Olson, V., Romano, P. S., & Kravitz, R. L. (2004). Nurse-patient ratios: a systematic review on the effects of nurse staffing on patient, nurse employee, and hospital outcomes. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(7-8), 326-337.

Post-falls assessment tools to help in post-fall decision making in acute care settings

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Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) has a recommended practice entitled “Observation Following Falls in Acute Care: Older People” that is available via login with your Emory Healthcare login; search for the document by title in JBI, click “Display Results,” and then click “JBI Database PDF”: http://pid.emory.edu/h78zp

There are a variety of relevant post-falls assessment tools online:
1. Royal Devon Exeter National Health Service Foundation Trust pdf: https://tinyurl.com/yansp8t4
2. Intermountain Healthcare pdf: https://tinyurl.com/ydgxar6n
3. A Veterans Affairs Word document: https://tinyurl.com/ybvfoq2z
4. Ohio State University Medical Center pdf: https://tinyurl.com/y6usjgk8
5. South Western Ambulance Service National Health Service pdf: https://tinyurl.com/y8xqoxod

Please follow these instructions to access 8 relevant articles in PubMed.

a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then copy and paste this link into your browser address bar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/52782984/public/
d. The references will appear in  PubMed. Click on a reference, and you will see a Find it at Emory to the right of it which will provide availability for full text. If you are not able to access full text, you may submit citation(s) to Ask a Librarian. Library staff will get article(s) for you and email them to you.

Improvement in falls rate and prevention of falls on the surgical floor

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Here is how to access 22 references on improvement in falls rate and prevention of falls on the surgical floor.
Go to Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on PubMed.
Paste this url into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HuA1sy0j55QI/collections/52512629/public/

Improving nursing communication with patients on the surgical floor

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For the PubMed search, search terms were the following:
hospital staff nurses AND communication AND patients AND (surgical floor OR intensive care units).

Here a few references from this  search that provide links to the full text. Below these references is a link to a PubMed collection of 33 references.

Norouzinia R, Aghabarari M, Shiri M, Karimi M, Samami E. Communication
barriers perceived by nurses and patients. Glob J Health Sci. 2015 Sep
28;8(6):65-74. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p65. PubMed PMID: 26755475; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC4954910.

Garon M. Speaking up, being heard: registered nurses’ perceptions of workplace
communication. J Nurs Manag. 2012 Apr;20(3):361-71. doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2834.2011.01296.x. Epub 2011 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 22519614.

Slade. J. (2016) Team Concepts.  Building a safe unit culture with CUSP. Nursing Managment. 47 (12_) 8-12. doi.10.1097/01.NUMA.0000508266.49722.7d

Here is how to access PubMed collection of 33 references.
Go to Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on Pubmed.
Paste this url into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HuA1sy0j55QI/collections/52512309/public/

Encouraging patients to ask about hand hygiene

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Here is how to access 13 articles on encouraging patients to ask about hand hygiene (AKA the “it’s okay to ask” campaign).
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage: http://health.library.emory.edu
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste this links into your browser:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/52594031/public/