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Below are a few of the books we’ve recently to our online collection.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
Red Book atlas of pediatric infectious diseases
The fifth edition of this best-selling Red Book® image companion aids in the diagnosis and treatment of more than 165 pediatric infectious diseases. Streamline disease recognition and clinical decision-making with more than 1,350 finely detailed color images, combined with step-by-step guidance.
Guidance for healthcare ethics committees
Every accredited American hospital is required to have a process for handling ethical concerns within the institution. For the most part, hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC). However, many of these individuals, while well intentioned, have neither the training in ethics, nor the tools at their disposal to address properly the ethical considerations brought to them. Yet healthcare providers and patients turn to these committee members for ethical insight. This book focuses on HEC member education by providing definitive and comprehensive learning content for members of HECs. This second edition is fully updated throughout and adds new chapters that reflect the evolving nature of health care.
Essentials of health policy and law
Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied. Thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition explores the key health policy and legal changes brought about by the Biden Administration and the presently Democrat-controlled Congress. It also addresses the Covid-19 pandemic, and its many devastating and intertwined health, economic, and social consequences.
Red book : 2021-2024 report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases
The 32nd edition provides evidence-based guidance on pediatric infections and vaccinations based on the recommendations of the committee as well as the combined expertise of the CDC, FDA, and hundreds of physician contributors. Red Book® is an indispensable reference for pediatricians and pediatric infectious disease specialists and is useful for family medicine and emergency medicine physicians as well. Public health and school health professionals, medical residents, and students also will find it a high-yield source of pediatric infectious disease and vaccine information.
Designing science presentations : a visual guide to figures, papers, slides, posters, and more
Designing Science Presentations: A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More, Second Edition, guides scientists of any discipline in the design of compelling science communication. Most scientists never receive formal training in the design, delivery and evaluation of scientific communication, yet these skills are essential for publishing in high-quality journals, soliciting funding, attracting lab personnel, and advancing a career. This clear, readable volume fills that gap, providing visually intensive guidance at every step—from the construction of original figures to the presentation and delivery of those figures in papers, slideshows, posters and websites.
Self-care and You: Caring for the Caregiver
Nurses are the consummate caregivers, often sacrificing their own health and wellness while taking care of others. Self-care means choosing behaviors to counter emotional and physical stress, from exercise and nutritious eating to practicing self-centering activities. Given the emotional stress and strains inherent in your profession, it is important that you make self-care a priority. It is vital to your well-being and enables you to effectively continue your day-to-day practice of healing and caring for others. Self-Care and You applies an integrated approach to the practice of self-care. This handy guide is organized in six self-care pathways: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, relationships, and choices. It’s loaded with detailed examples, guidelines, tips, techniques, and insights about each pathway to help you assess and guide your self-care journey.
You’ve been working on your article and you are ready to submit, but what journal do you choose? And how do you choose the right journal?
There’s a lot to consider when choosing a journal: do you want your article to be open access? How much are the author fees? Is this journal legit? Not to mention, all this information isn’t all in one place.
To save yourself time, let a librarian do the work for you. We can suggest a list of vetted journals based on your research needs and will provide the most scholarly impact. All you have to do is send us a research summary, manuscript or some journals you want to consider, and we will do the rest.
Rather meet in person or virtually? Contact us so we can schedule a consultation time.
We have spaces for everyone. If you prefer silence, check out room 201 in Ellis Library. Check out this Ellis Library floorplan to see all the quiet spots. Journalism also has four private personal study pods on the bottom floor that are first come, first served.
If you don’t prefer complete silence, try the Information Commons (the first floor of Ellis Library). Or the Bookmark Café on the ground floor for coffee and conversation. You can always take a look at the Ellis Library sensory map to find the best study space for you.
If it’s a group study spot you are searching for, try to reserve one of the group study rooms in either Ellis, Engineering, or Journalism. They can be reserved for up to two hours for each group. Some also have Solstice monitors to help groups studying together share information with one another. Whatever you need, make sure and plan ahead, as rooms fill up quickly! Currently, access to the Health Sciences Library is open during the day and badge access after 6pm and on weekends.
Remember, if your program has its own library, be sure to check out those spaces, as they are often designated specifically for you!
Did you know we have a way where you can pickup your library books 24/7? Send your books to our 24/7 pickup lockers to pick up your books whenever it’s convenient for you, even when the library is closed.
The lockers are located in the Medical Science Building, just across the courtyard from the Medical Annex.
When requesting a book, choose MU Health Sciences Library Pickup Lockers. Once your item is ready, you’ll receive an email with codes needed to pick up your item. Books generally arrive in two or three days.
At this time, only regular library items will be included in the pickup lockers; no equipment, reserve materials or ILL materials.
Find yourself closer to the center of campus? We have another locker location on the ground floor in Ellis Library. Choose MU Ellis Library Pickup Lockers to send your books to that location.
We’ve recently added Self-management in chronic illness : principles, practice, and empowerment strategies for better health to our online collection, written by MU’s own Dr. Laura Schopp, recently retired faculty in the Department of Health Psychology in the School of Health Professions.
This book, consisting of three parts, provides insights into the aspects of self-management as it relates to its definition and application. It highlights how self-management can be applied to various long-term health conditions, for different populations or target groups and in different contexts. The text provides an overview of self-management and the rationale for its applications by illustrating its use in specific clinical conditions and in different sub-populations and target groups.
Academics can use the book as a textbook when teaching postgraduate and undergraduate students about self-management as a technique to facilitate community reintegration for individuals living with long-term conditions. It can also be used by clinicians to enhance their management of individuals with long-term conditions. Furthermore, researchers can use the text to expand and support their research in this area.
Research published in a high-impact factor journal reaches a wider audience. Thus, publishing in journals with higher impact factors and metrics is a great way to increase the reach of your research. Further, impact factors are a tool used to evaluate research in promotion and tenure committees.
Utilize the library’s journal evaluator tool to evaluate the quality and impact of your journal prior to submission. This tool will save you time by pulling impact factors, CiteScore, and other quality indicators for the journals you need, all in one place. All you need to search is the journal title or the ISSN.
Check out our library guide for more information on impact factors and journal metrics.
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Trial of Endovascular Treatment of Acute Basilar-Artery Occlusion” was co-authored by Dr. Adnan Qureshi of the Department of Neurology. The article was published in New England Journal of Medicine (impact factor of 176.082 in 2021).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=December&Year=2022
Spring 2023 required and recommended textbooks for classes in the School of Nursing, School of Health Professions and the Department of Health Management and Informatics are now available at the library. Each course has its own corresponding tab.
Paper copies are available on Health Sciences Library Reserve for a 24 hour checkout time. Any duplicate copies of textbooks are available and subject to regular check out times.
Be aware of the user limits on electronic textbooks. They are different depending on textbook and platform. We make note of any user limits.
Unfortunately, we don’t have all the books required for every class. If we don’t have your textbook, there are several avenues you can use to find a copy, which are all clearly labeled on each class page.
Textbook Guides:
If you need help accessing any of the textbooks, email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu.
On January 25, 2023, the NIH’s new data management and planning policy takes effect. The new policy applies to all research funded in whole or partly by NIH that results in scientific data.
The new plan mandates that all NIH-funded research proposals submit a data management plan, including details about what data will be available, where it will be stored, and how it can be accessed. Data management can be included in grant budgets. Plan compliance will be evaluated during the funding period at regular reporting intervals.
Additional information can be found in our data management plan guide.
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