Library hours for Thanksgiving

Please note our hours next week in observation of Thanksgiving:

Closed Wednesday, Nov 25th at 5:00pm.

Closed all day Thursday and Friday

Regular hours resume Saturday, Nov. 28.

Remember: you still have access to the computer lab in Room 1C65  during the Thanksgiving Break! Stop by the Security Desk to get the code for the computer lab door.

Regular Library Hours:

Day	Open	Close
Monday – Thursday	8:00 a.m.	11:00 p.m.
Friday	8:00 a.m.	9:00 p.m.
Saturday	9:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.
Sunday	1:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.

Library Consultations Available

Feeling overwhelmed?   Come by or contact us for a one-on-one information session with a librarian.   Whether you are just getting started or trying to evaluate the resources you’ve already located, we are here to help!

Phone: 660-3220

Ask a Librarian by email

Regular Library Hours:
Day	Open	Close
Monday – Thursday	8:00 a.m.	11:00 p.m.
Friday	8:00 a.m.	9:00 p.m.
Saturday	9:00 a.m.	7:00 p.m.
Sunday	1:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m.

Please note our hours next week in observation of Thanksgiving:

Close Wednesday, Nov 25th at 5:00pm.   

Closed all day Thursday and Friday – Happy Holiday

Regular hours resume Saturday, Nov. 28

Databases available for all HSC departments

Check out the online resources for the OU-Tulsa Health Sciences Departments. These are available both on and off-campus*

• DynaMed, evidence-based clinical resource.  Available to all licensed physicians in Oklahoma.
• Medline, Embase, Evidence-based Medicine databases, including the Cochrane Collection, are available through the Ovid link.
• PubMed – use the PubMed link on the library’s E-Resources page. More full-text articles will be available.
• Micromedex is the most complete drug resource available through the library.
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts and Embase, accessed through the Ovid link, offer pharmacy journal article citations.
• Nursing topics are found through Cinahl Full-Text Plus in Ebsco

*When linking to these resources, you’ll need your OUHSC username and email account password.

Have questions?  Give us a call at 660-3220 or email lynn-yeager@ouhsc.edu

National Library of Medicine Services

Did you know the OU-Tulsa Library helps serve the health education needs of northeastern Oklahoma? It’s true.

Our library is a Resource Library for the National Library of Medicine – one of only three in the state.

Library staff, like Vicki and Peg pictured here, will train anyone interested in locating good, reliable, high quality information on the Internet.

Interested in learning more about health information? Call 918-660-3216.

Need to use UpToDate? Try DynaMed instead!

Try accessing DynaMed from off-campus if you want fast answers. It is a clinical reference tool that reliably answers questions quickly and accurately using only evidenced-based medicine resources. DynaMed also has PDA and iPhone (mobile) applications.

From the library home page, click on E-Resources then the red DynaMed button.  From off-campus you will need to enter your OUHSC username and email account password at the bottom of the page that follows. To find the DynaMed icon, you may need to scroll. Contact the library for more information at 660-3220.

Faculty Publication: Hoppes

Warne, K. E., & Hoppes, S. (2009). Lessons in living and dying from my first patient: An autoethnography. Canadian Journal Of Occupational Therapy. Revue Canadienne D’ergothérapie, 76(4), 309-316.

BACKGROUND: This study examines the challenges and rewards of a fieldwork student’s first encounter with death in a clinical setting and describes occupational interventions that affirm the life of a client preparing for death. PURPOSE: To explore meanings, challenges, and lessons of end-of-life care for an occupational therapy fieldwork student. METHODS: A qualitative format, autoethnography, was used to develop a narrative that reveals the lived experience of a fieldwork student. FINDINGS. Findings include a description of what a fieldwork student was and was not able to accomplish in end-of-life care. The paper describes using self-care activities to normalize and cede control of end-of-life care to the client and developing a vision of how to help clients find closure. IMPLICATIONS: The study carries implications for students and therapists working in end-of-life care. Therapists and educators can draw from this study to better understand and support new therapists when patients die.

Link to Ebsco record (may require OUHSC login)

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy is available at the OU-Tulsa Library

Do you have a publication? Let the OU-Tulsa Library know!

Exam Master Login Change

Exam Master OnLine is switching your account login information to become your email address. This change will be effective Monday, November 16. You will be able to access your account using the email address used when signing up for Exam Master and then your normal password.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the library at 660-3220.

Workshop news

There are only two more library workshops left to attend this semester, so sign up today!

DynaMed: Online and PDA Downloads:  OUHSC affiliates will get an overview of this fully evidenced-based medicine resource which is available online and in PDA format. PLEASE BRING YOUR PDA OR iPHONES if you want to download the application during class! Held Thursday, Nov. 12th from 2:00 – 3:00 in computer lab 1C65.

Open Access: Get Your Manuscript Published: All OU affiliates will get an overview of open access publishing, an alternative form of publishing distributed via the Web.  Wednesday, Nov. 18th from 3:00 – 4:00 in (ROOM CHANGE!) 1C65.

Register here: http://tulsa.ou.edu/Library/training2.htm

Faculty Publication: Desselle

Kamal, K. M., Desselle, S. P., Rane, P., Parekh, R., & Zacker, C. (2009). Content analysis of FDA warning letters to manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and therapeutic biologicals for promotional violations. [Article]. Drug Information Journal, 43(4), 385-393.

Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals use advertising and promotion as key marketing activities to foster the success of their products. These activities, however, have to comply with FDA regulations; failure to do so results in FDA enforcement actions such as issuance of warning letters and notices of violation. The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the content of FDA letters to manufacturers for promotional violations. Two judges formally trained in content analysis procedures critically evaluated the content of publicly available letters from 2000 to 2006. A total of 249 letters described 806 violations from 107 manufacturers. Media most frequently cited in letters were print (n = 67), sales aids (n = 42), and television (n = 39). Violations were most frequently related to lack of fair balance (n = 131), misleading claims of efficacy (n = 102), misleading superiority claims (n = 92), and omission of risk information (n = 89). Interrater reliabilities between the two judges were exceptional, ranging from 0.89 to 1.00. The marketing of prescription drugs has a significant impact on the medication use process. Managed care policymakers and pharmacists should remain abreast of promotional strategies and claims, particularly those deemed problematic by the FDA, which may spur requests for additional information, prescriptions, or formulary status changes for the drugs promoted.

Link to Ebsco record (may require OUHSC logon)

Drug Information Journal available at the OU-Tulsa Library

Do you have a publication? Let the OU-Tulsa Library know!

Faculty Publication: Pascucci

Leasure, A. R., Delise, D., Clifton, S. C., & Pascucci, M. A. (2009). Health information literacy: Hardwiring behavior through multilevels of instruction and application. Dimensions Of Critical Care Nursing: DCCN, 28(6), 276-282.

To produce a healthcare provider who is competent in accessing health information, nursing faculty members, in tandem with medical librarians, play a crucial role in establishing the knowledge base for student competency in health information literacy. The time to prepare nursing students to meet the information challenges and opportunities of today’s healthcare environment is not after graduation, but rather while they are in school. By incorporating health information literacy skill building throughout the curriculum, nursing faculty members can prepare their students to enter the workforce equipped with the skills they need to find, retrieve, appraise, and apply information to their clinical practice.

Link to Ebsco record (may require OUHSC login)

Full text is available through OU-Tulsa’s E-journals link.

Do you have a publication? Let the OU-Tulsa Library know!