Speaking of being prepared, seasonal flu shots will be available September 23, 24 and 25 (next Weds. – Fri.) from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the School of Nursing, 1900 Gravier Street, 5th floor IV lab. Free for students and $10 for Faculty & Staff payable by cash or check.
~EDIT~ Shots were cancelled due to a shortage of vaccine. edited 9/21/09 @ 8:44 a.m.
LSUHSC has also created a H1N1 info portal, with updated swine flu information. Our campus is also applying to become a point of distribution for the H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available. The H1N1 flu vaccine will be distributed in accordance with the CDC?óÔé¼Ôäós priority group vaccination recommendations.
LSUHSC Occupational Therapy faculty and students will be providing a Fall Prevention Workshop on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 1-4 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 2700 Canal St. Other participants include the LSUHSC Departments of Physical Therapy, Medicine, Community Nursing, as well as the Louisiana Fall Prevention Coalition and the Office of Public Health Injury Research and Prevention Program. For more information, see the official LSUHSC press release.
The month of September not only ushers in the official end of summer, it is also designated National Preparedness Month (NPM).
NPM encourages Americans and their communities to prepare and plan for emergencies that affect the general public. Ranging from common power outages to horrific national disasters, the American Public Health Association stresses the importance of being prepared.
September 15th is designated Get Ready Day so take the time on this date to come up with a plan for yourself and your family.
Influenza: Evidence Based Resources is a FREE database offered by EBSCO Publishing (from whom the Libraries purchase a number of databases). It is comprised of selected resources from a number of its health related databases. And includes information for clinicians, nurses and patients.
The Isché Library will be offering a RefWorks class this Thursday (Sept. 17th) from 1-2 p.m. To register contact Molly Knapp or call the Circulation Desk @ 504-568-6100.
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager. It allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.
The archaic days of checking out a key to turn on a computer are behind us!
Beginning today, the computer lab on the fourth floor of the library is keyless. All you need to use it are a valid LSUHSC user ID and password. Stopping at the Circulation desk for a key is unnecessary if you plan to work in the lab.
The 8 computers outside the lab will continue to use key access for those patrons who either do not have a LSUHSC logins, or are having difficulty with their logins. To check out a computer key for those computers, you will still need a LSUHSC ID.
TIPS:
DO NOT save work to the computer. Use a flash drive or save to your personal drive on the network.
Computers are automatically erased every day. Anything left on the computer will not remain there the next day.
Computer lab use is expected to comply with the acceptable use policies as set forth under CM-42 – Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure. Failure to comply with these rules can result in revoked computer privleges. So keep it clean and work/school related, folks!
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has released its Influenza Surveillance Report through the end of August. It finds that:
11% of swine flu patients are 4 or younger.
70% are 5 to 24 years old
18% are 26-64
1% are 65 are older
Further the report states that “there are 737 lab confirmed cases of 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) in Louisiana. Based on an extrapolation from CDC data, the real case count in Louisiana is closer to 39,000.”
Don’t forget to follow the CDC guidelines for staying healthy.
The Isché & Dental Libraries will be closed Sunday & Monday for the Labor Day holiday. The Isché Library will be open its normal Saturday hours of 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Paul Ehrlich developed what is now recognized as the first chemotherapy agent 100 years ago. On August 31, 1909 his 606th compound of arsenobenzene was developed. He was searching for a way to treat syphillis.
Four years later, a memorandum of understanding is signed for a new public-private teaching hospital.
The following resource guide has been updated.
Alternative Medicine
Resource Guides are instructional tools to introduce users to basic information. If you think the Library should add a Resource Guide, please let us know.
Julie Schiavo, reference librarian at the LSU Dental School, has just been awarded an Express Outreach Grant for over $3,000 from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. Julie’s grant, entitled “Outreach to the LSUHSC-NO School of Dentistry Clinic: Providing Quality Consumer Health Information to Dental Patients,” will provide consumer health computer stations to patients at the Dental clinic.
Congratulations Julie! We are very proud of you!
The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
With all this talk about immunization in the second year medicine groups and flu season just around the corner, here’s a timely iPhone app.
ShotRecs is a rapid reference guide to the 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s available from the App Store on iTunes.
It features:
– 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Catch-up Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Vaccine schedule for adults based on medical and other indications
more info & screenshots
Interestingly enough, ShotRecs was designed by a medical student (now an intern in Family Medicine) at Georgetown University. Any Tigers out there designing iPhone apps?
The Isché Library bookdrop was moved back to its original location on the crosswalk earlier this week.
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