Face-to-Face vs. Facebook
For our plugged-in, internet savvy, Gen Y's the question arises; when it comes to the bigger, deeper emotional issues are you going to seek therapy online or are you still going to prefer face-to-face therapy?
Our very own professor
Dr. Vickie Rogers set out to determine the response from a perspective that had not been previously studied, that of the
psychiatric nurse.
"The purpose of this study was to compare differences in emotional self-disclosure between young adult Internet users who prefer face-to-face therapy to those who prefer Internet therapy. A convenience sample of 328 was recruited from Facebook to complete an online survey. A total of 263 preferred face-to-face therapy (F2FT) while 65 preferred Internet therapy (IT). Significant differences were found with the F2FT group willing to disclose emotions of depression, jealously, anxiety, and fear to a therapist more frequently than the IT group. The majority reported a preference for F2FT over IT." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
This study provides an important first step to determine the emotional self-disclosure differences and preferences in our young adult population. Given the high number of participants that reported a history of therapy, a need for psychiatric nurses to reach out with new ways to deliver therapy to better serve these clients, seems warranted.
Full-text of the article was published in October in the journal, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, and is available on Reserve in the Library.Citation: Rogers, V., Griffin, M., Wykle, M., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2009). Internet versus Face-to-Face Therapy: Emotional Self-Disclosure Issues for Young Adults.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 30(10), 596-602. doi:10.1080/01612840903003520.
Labels: communication, F2FT, face-to-face therapy, Generation Y, Internet therapy, internet users research, mental health nursing, psychiatric nursing, self-disclosure, young adults attitudes
MedPix is an
online medical image database containing almost 50,000 images of interest to medical and nursing students, as well as other healthcare professionals. The content is highly searchable and organized; including disease location, pathology category, patient profiles, classification, and case teaching files.
Registration is free and registered users may download images for teaching purposes.~ DB provided by the
Dept. of Radiology & Biomedical Informatics, USUHS, Bethesada, MD.
Labels: anatomical images, biomedical informatics, image database, medical images, MedPix, radiology, USUHS
The
Tropical Medicine Central Resource (TMCR) at
USUHS, under whose umbrella the
International Registry of Tropical Imaging (IRTI) was developed, serves as a worldwide archiving and retrieval source for imaging studies involved in the diagnosis of over 70 parasitic and infectious, neoplastic and miscellaneous diseases affecting over 2 billion people in the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe.
This archive has as its core the
10,000 images collected over the past
40 years by
Drs. Maurice Reeder and Philip Palmer with the cooperation of radiologists and clinicians from
over 30 countries.
The most important of these images are published in the 2 volume text
"The Imaging of Tropical Diseases, with Epidemiological, Pathological and Clinical Correlation"(2001), 2nd ed., by Palmer and Reeder, Springer-Verlag
[preview on Google Books] . "Every effort will be made to correlate imaging examinations with whatever corresponding epidemiological, gross and microscopic pathological, and clinical information may be available for each case and each disease entity. In so doing, it may be possible to illustrate the commonalties and differences in imaging and disease patterns regarding tropical diseases of identical etiology seen in varying parts of the world. For example:
~ Why should schistosomiasis mansoni cause inflammatory fibroid polyps in the colon in Africa and Arabia but present a Crohn-like pattern of narrowing and mucosal effacement in the Western hemisphere?
~ Why should Chagas' disease cause myocarditis in virtually all patients in Central and South America, but cause, in addition, megaesophagus and megacolon almost exclusively in Brazilians?
~ Why are certain malignancies present in a great percentage of the population in certain African villages and countries, while being almost unknown in adjacent areas?
Perhaps a multidisciplinary approach can shed new light on these and dozens of other puzzles throughout the tropical world!"
Labels: IRTI, TMCR, tropical disease research, tropical medicine, USUHS
The new
Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) from the NIH is now live. Replacing the
CRISP system,
"RePORT provides additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results."
More new features are expected in 2010.
Labels: medical research, NIH, RePORTER, research grants, study report
Essential Nursing Resourcesby Janet G. Schnall and June Levy [eds.]
Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN)The
25th edition of the
Essential Nursing Resources list is now available from
ICIRN. This valuable resource which includes both print and electronic materials, serves as a guide for locating nursing information resources "in support of nursing practice, education, administration, and research activities".
Click on the title to access the hyperlinked version from ICIRN.
Also available in .pdf.
Labels: essential nursing resources 2009, ICIRN, nursing literature
The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 has been awarded to 3 American scientists ~
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". Click on the title to read more from the
Nobel Prize website.
Labels: 2009, medical research, Nobel Prize
Seems there is a connection between the increased volcanic activity of Monserrat's volcano and the 4.5 earthquake that struck earlier today off St. Maarten
[see post below], according to the
Monserrat Volcano Observatory.
UPDATE: Sunday October 11 ~ "New lava dome growing on the south side..."Labels: earthquake caribbean, Monserrat, volcanos
4.5 earthquake hits just north of us, close to St. Maarten! Labels: earthquake caribbean
"The PubMed database comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites."
For a summary from the
National Library of Medicine, of all the changes and updates to the
PubMed interface and funcionality, please check out the latest
NLM Technical Bulletin article
"PubMed Redesign".Remember though, if you don't find the full text for that article in PubMed, it could be available to you in our
EBSCO subscription databases were the
Anne Ross Library subscribes for you to the
full text of over 6000 journals! If you are not remembering the login, just ask any one of our friendly, helpful library staff.Labels: EBSCO, journal databases, new interface, PubMed
Edited by Richard Wootton, et alRoyal Society of Medicine Press/IDRC 2009
e-ISBN 978-1-55250-396-6
"Health care is primarily about people-to-people interactions. It is about understanding, diagnosis, physical contact, communication, and, ultimately, providing care. By bringing people together, telecommunication technologies have the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency medical assistance, long-distance consultation, administration and logistics, supervision and quality assurance, and education and training for healthcare professionals and providers.
This book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents real-life stories from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is rich in practical experience and will be of interest to health professionals, development workers, and e-health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about, or contributing to the implementation of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world’s population."
Click on title for full access from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) .Labels: ebook, global health, healthcare technology, IDRC, telehealth, third world development
Note this great opportunity for undergraduate nursing students:Write an article about nursing diagnosis for a chance to win a $2,000 scholarship to the
NANDA International Congress in Madrid, Spain ~ May 12-14,2010! The contest article entry deadline is
November 20, 2009.
"The student will present his/her winning article in poster format at the Madrid conference, and will be recognized at the conference Awards reception. Following the conference, the winning article will be submitted to the International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications for possible publication. The winning student will also receive a one-year paid membership in NANDA-I."
Topic: Promoting safety and evidence-based nursing care for patients in the clinical setting, by using the NANDA-I (NANDA International) standardized nursing language.Labels: NANDA, NANDA International, nursing conference, standardized nursing language
Check out this new evidence-based digital resource from JAMA and McGraw Hill. JAMAevidence, designed for medical students, residents, educators, and clinicians, provides the fundamental learning tools required for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses.
JAMAevidence provides full-text access to both the second edition of
The User's Guides to the Medical Literature and the newly published
The Rational Clinical Examination. On
JAMAevidence, these etitles are combined with teaching tools, media, and interactive features to convey the best practices of evidence-based medicine – including the careful assessment and interpretation of medical research.
Labels: clinical medicine, diagosis of disease, EBM, evidence-based medicine, JAMA, JAMAevidence
Holiday weekend hours
Please note:
The Library will remain open this holiday weekend as per our usual hours.
~ 7:00 am ~ 11:00 pm ~ September 18, 19 & 20 ~
Since the 1970s, the percentage of foreign-trained doctors practising in Canada has declined considerably.
A new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows the number of international medical graduates (IMGs), as a proportion of the physician workforce in Canada, decreased from 33% in the 1970s to 22% in 2007. The decline was seen in all provinces and in the territories and may be largely due to the aging and retirement of the wave of British- and Irish-trained physicians who began practising in earlier decades, as well as smaller proportions of new foreign-trained doctors setting up practice in Canada. The report also found that more than one-quarter (
27%) of
Canada’s foreign-trained doctors actually grew up in Canada but studied overseas. Labels: Canada, Foreign Medical Graduates, foreign-trained doctors, IMG, International Medical Graduates, statistics
The latest issue of the
NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is now available. In every issue you'll find information you can use to keep you and your family healthy, including links to
MedlinePlus, NLM's award-winning
consumer health web site. Great for patient education too!
Labels: consumer health information, MedlinePlus, NIH, patient education
How to Give a Lousy Presentation: Fifteen ways to make a bad impressionBy
Carmine Gallo for
Business Week "Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look like a rank amateur, here are 15 surefire tips to guarantee that you leave a really, really bad impression."
Can you guess one? ~ spelling mistakes of course tops the list!
Labels: presentations, teaching methods, teaching skills
"Medicine has one of the highest rates of burnout. Experts say some 50% of medical professionals suffer from a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's not unexpected - the hours are long, the patients looking to you to solve their problems, and the stakes are very high if you can't. No medical professional wants to compromise patient care, but when they're burned out, it's pretty much inevitable. This week on
White Coat, Black Art, burnout among your health professionals [in Canada].
CBC Radio Canada hosts "White Coat, Black Art":"Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors' offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies. It's a biting, original and provocative show that will demystify the world of medicine. We'll explore the tension between hope and reality: between what patients want, and what doctors can deliver. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals will explain how the system works, and why, with a refreshing and unprecedented level of honesty."
Labels: burnout, Canada, health care, stress
For our plugged-in, internet savvy, Gen Y's the question arises; when it comes to the bigger, deeper emotional issues are you going to seek therapy online or are you still going to prefer face-to-face therapy?
