The role of the social worker in the rehabilitation of patients from mental hospitals who have been treated with chlorpromazine.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

The role of the social worker in the rehabilitation of patients from mental hospitals who have been treated with chlorpromazine.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Transforming Nursing Practice for Today\u27s World: Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Nurses as Preparation for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

This poster presentation summarizes how combined entities of the George Washington University Medical Center planned, developed, and disseminated instructional programs promoting information literacy skills among professional nurses. The programs served as a precursor for research utilization and the promotion of evidence-based nursing practices (EBNP)

Reaching Out to All: Medical Informatics as Service to Diverse Populations in an Academic Medical Center

As an academic health sciences library in an urban area, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library is challenged to provide outreach services to a diverse user population and to the surrounding community. To respond to this challenge the librarians provide outreach services and programs to accomplish the following goals: Provide additional education to user groups within the medical center; Provide focused services at the point of need within the curricula and the hospital; Reach out to the surrounding health care community, offering medical information and consumer education; Promote consumer resources to underserved populations

Area limit laws for symmetry classes of staircase polygons

We derive area limit laws for the various symmetry classes of staircase polygons on the square lattice, in a uniform ensemble where, for fixed perimeter, each polygon occurs with the same probability. This complements a previous study by Leroux and Rassart, where explicit expressions for the area and perimeter generating functions of these classes have been derived.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figure

High precision GPS guidance of mobile robots

The use of GPS for guidance of mobile robots has been reported as achieved in a number of useful proximate scenarios such as stevadoring, formation movement or search and agricultural positioning. Standard DGPS can be used to get an accuracy of under one metre sometimes leaving fine motor adjustments by humans to complete a task. Pay a lot more, and the precision improves but the cost is high in any commercial terms for the mass market. We report high precision GPS-guided movement based on the use of readily available low-cost receivers. Accuracies of better than 5 cms maintained over minutes have been demonstrated and are being improved upon. The guidance algorithms were adjusted to allow for the retention of orientation when approaching close to a destination. The introduction of the Galileo system will improve the efficacy and usefulness of this method as we move from 24 to 30 satellites

Improving the Patient Experience by Implementing Patient-Centered Care in a Community Hospital

Health care is a complex business currently undergoing extensive reform. These changes require new methods of care deliver and ways in which health care organizations are operating. At the forefront of this change effort is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is transforming health care from a volume-based, fee-for-service process to the delivery of services that have value, improve quality outcomes, increase satisfaction, elicit greater efficiency, demonstrate improved safety outcomes, show cost-effectiveness, promote better access to services, and result in high reliability between providers and organizations. The goal of providing a more positive health care experience is mandated within these reform efforts. There is an increasing amount written about the benefits of improving the patient experience in the inpatient setting, but operational direction is lacking. Additionally, while there is much discussion about the benefits and specific elements of patient-centered care, the benefit of implementing patient-centered care in relation to improving the patient experience is minimal. This 15-month demonstration project was designed and implemented to demonstrate that the implementation of patient-centered care will result in the improved patient experience of care, with results meeting the goal of improving value within the health care reform effort. The implementation of these improvements has resulted in a major culture change within the organization, which will lead to continual process improvements yielding improved quality outcomes, increased safety within the care delivery methods, improved service excellence, greater satisfaction of the patient experience of care, and demonstrate financial benefits resulting in lower costs, better utilization of services, and better access

Promoting Equity in Health Information: Partners for Health Information and Health Information Partners (HIPS)

In 2004, a community health outreach partnership, funded by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), was launched. HIPS, Health Information Partners, promoted health literacy and health advocacy for residents of Washington, D.C., who frequented the area community health centers. This poster explores the goals, strategies, and results of the HIPS program

PDA Power at the Bedside

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library developed a pilot project to evaluate PDA use in medical education. A grant was secured to fund the purchase of medical reference software. The objective of the pilot project was to analyze usage of PDA software by medical students, residents, and physician assistant students in a clinical setting