Navigating Open Access Initiatives in a Sea of Mixed Support

CC-BY-NCSince 2008, OA support has grown into a three-pronged approach that includes working with faculty to deposit the appropriate, publisher-permitted version of their article in our IR; providing funding for open access articles through an Open Access Publishing Support Fund (OAPSF); and offering recurring classes to faculty and graduate students on selecting and evaluating journals, with a focus on OA publishing. The three efforts were created to address the informational, financial, and infrastructural and procedural barriers to OA publishing identified through local conversations and in the literature

Giving It All You’ve Got: The Value of Extending Hours in an Academic Health Sciences Library

Objective University libraries’ student satisfaction surveys regularly reveal student demand for increased operating hours to accommodate student learning. While academic libraries may provide extended hours, use of such models in academic health sciences libraries appears to be less widely adopted, perhaps due to budgetary concerns and lower general gate counts than academic library counterparts that may already provide extended hours. In the face of student demands, our institution shifted its budget to provide an additional 10 weekend hours, between Friday and Sunday, to help meet these demands. This study assessed the return on investment for those increased hours by tracking increased physical use of library spaces in the year following adoption of extended weekend operating hours. Methods This study utilized physical library usage data [gate counts, room reservations, and circulation transactions] for the time period January 2018-January 2020, restricted to Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The date range allowed for comparison of weekend physical use statistics during one complete year pre-extended hours with one complete year post-extended hours data. For the two time periods, for all periods except exams, we ran descriptive statistics to assess the percent increase in physical library usage, with sub-analyses by patron type whenever data allowed. Results We saw an upsurge in room reservations across all three weekend days with a 52.95% increase during the Spring Semester, a 38.81% increase in the Fall Semester, and a 9.16% increase during the Summer Semester. Room reservations during the extended hours in 2019 accounted for 17.42%, 20.98%, and 18.92% of all reservations during the Spring, Fall, and Summer Semesters respectively. Gate count and circulation data analysis is ongoing. Conclusions Based on this data, we are confident that the return on investment for these extended hours was high

The impacts of faculty caring on nursing students’ intent to graduate: A systematic literature review

Objectives: To examine the current studies about the impacts of faculty caring on nursing students’ intent to graduate and provide recommendations. The nursing profession continues to face nursing shortages. One of the solutions recognized to alleviate the shortage is increasing the number of students graduating from nursing schools. It lacks a literature review synthesizing the current research about the impacts of faculty caring on nursing students’ intent to graduate and indicate areas for future research. Methods: This is a systematic literature review. The search of the literature was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Databases searched included MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and ProQuest Search. Search terms included ‘attrition,’ ‘dropouts,’ ‘graduation rate,’ ‘faculty,’ ‘instructor,’ ‘professor,’ ‘nursing,’ and ‘caring.’ Results: Ten articles met the inclusion criteria. The articles were conducted in the Associate Degree of Nursing and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs. Nursing faculties played a significant role in students’ intent to graduate by building students’ confidence, creating a compassionate learning environment, and promoting students’ competence. Faculties’ caring behaviors, including respecting students, showing empathy, and using caring communication skills, were essential characteristics to affect students’ learning environments. Conclusions: The findings indicate that students’ perceptions of faculty caring can affect their perceptions of the learning environment and sense of belonging, and therefore, impact their intent to graduate. Students’ perceptions of their instructors’ caring behaviors are instrumental in motivating them to continue learning. The capacity of faculty caring plays a significant role in students’ success

This is How We\u27ll Do It: Considerations in Creation of a Literature Search Best Practices Guideline

Background Literature searching skills and approaches among librarians may vary considerably, based upon the ways that literature searching is taught in formal and informal education. Informal observation of the literature search assistance approaches among health sciences librarians in the Information and Research Services department in Lapus Library indicated that patrons requesting such service might receive varying levels of service. This poster describes the creation of a best practices guideline for literature search assistance to address differential levels of service and build consensus about best practice when consistent pre- or in-service training in this area is missing. Description The Literature Search Best Practices Guideline has been shaped by two means: a discussion series and a survey of the department\u27s librarians. The survey sought to identify common logistical and clarifying questions asked by the librarians in response to literature search requests, stratified by stakeholder category (students, faculty, clinicians, etc.). The discussion series focused on technological, procedural, relational, and ethical considerations in literature search assistance. The survey results and issues identified as inherent in literature search assistance have been organized into a draft Literature Search Best Practices Guideline. Librarians have all contributed to the creation of the guidelines through participation in the discussion series as well as written contribution to the guidelines. Furthermore, the discussion series has created an ongoing dialog about ethics and critical thinking in everyday library practice. Conclusions We plan to share the final guideline in a public repository, use the guidelines to train new librarians at our institution, and perform follow-up analysis of the usefulness and practical application of the guidelines in our department. Additionally, ongoing discussions related to professional ethics, citation choices, and authorship negotiations will be continued

A Systematic Literature Review of the Current State of Knowledge Related to Interventions for Bereaved Parents

Aims: The purpose of this systematic literature review is to describe the interventions for bereaved parents, evaluate intervention effectiveness through study methodology rigor, replicability, and theoretical foundations. Methods: We searched MEDLINE via PubMed (1966-2018), CINAHL (1937-present), PsycINFO (1887-present), and Embase (1947-present) using various search words and MeSH terms related to the study purpose. A blinded screening of title/abstract was performed, with conflicting inclusion decisions resolved through group discussions. Matrices for remaining articles were created and discussed among the team. The levels of evidence of the 9 records were rated from very low to high based on the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation guidelines. Results: Our initial pool included 1025 articles. After the screening of titles/abstracts, 63 articles were retained for full-text reviews. Evaluated based on the inclusion/exclusion criteria, 9 records met the review criteria. Of the 9 records, 1 was graded as very low, 3 low, and 5 low to moderate. The interventions for bereaved parents varied from using single-model interventions such as expressive arts therapy and telephone support to multimodal interventions that combined resources (ie, peer support, resource packets, and health-care support). Only 1 study explicitly illustrated how its bereavement intervention was designed based on the proposed theoretical model. Conclusions: This review highlights the need for individualized, well-tested, and effective bereavement care interventions to support bereaved parents. In summary, the state of the science on interventions for bereaved parents is poor and much work needs to be done to effectively address the needs of bereaved parents, including both their physical and emotional health needs

Data-Related Support in U.S.-Based Health Sciences Libraries: An Analysis of AAHSL Member Sites

Scientific research is increasingly data-intensive, bringing with it new challenges related to the collection, analysis, storage, preservation, accessibility and communication of data. Federal funders, seeking to increase transparency, reproducibility, and impact of scientific research, have implemented requirements for data management and sharing, requirements that libraries are ideally situated to support. The National Library of Medicine’s 2017-2027 Strategic Plan underscored the importance of libraries in supporting these mandates with the inclusion of a goal of building a workforce for data-driven research and health, including ‘upskilling’ librarians to better support data services.  The extent to which Health Sciences Libraries have successfully created services and resources to support data-intensive research is unclear. The purpose of this poster is to study the extent to which AAHSL member libraries have pivoted to provide data services, either broadly speaking or more specifically, through provision of data visualization ("data viz") services or data management services, for their respective constituencies

The state of the science of nurse work environments in the United States: A systematic review

A healthy nurse work environment is a workplace that is safe, empowering, and satisfying. Many research studies were conducted on nurse work environments in the last decade; however, it lacks an overview of these research studies. The purpose of this review is to identify, evaluate, and summarize the major foci of studies about nurse work environments in the United States published between January 2005 and December 2017 and provide strategies to improve nurse work environments. Databases searched included MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Nursing and Allied Health, and the Cochrane Library. The literature search followed the PRISMA guideline. Fifty-four articles were reviewed. Five major themes emerged: 1) Impacts of healthy work environments on nurses' outcomes such as psy- chological health, emotional strains, job satisfaction, and retention; 2) Associations between healthy work environments and nurse interpersonal relationships at workplaces, job performance, and pro- ductivity; 3) Effects of healthy work environments on patient care quality; 4) Influences of healthy work environments on hospital accidental safety; and 5) Relationships between nurse leadership and healthy work environments. This review shows that nurses, as frontline patient care providers, are the foun- dation for patient safety and care quality. Promoting nurse empowerment, engagement, and interper- sonal relationships at work is rudimental to achieve a healthy work environment and quality patient care. Healthier work environments lead to more satisfied nurses who will result in better job perfor- mance and higher quality of patient care, which will subsequently improve healthcare organizations' financial viability. Fostering a healthy work environment is a continuous effort

Neuroleptanalgesia for acute abdominal pain: a systematic review

Background: Acute abdominal pain (AAP) comprises up to 10% of all emergency department (ED) visits. Current pain management practice is moving toward multi-modal analgesia regimens that decrease opioid use. Objective: This project sought to determine whether, in patients with AAP (population), does administration of butyrophenone antipsychotics (intervention) compared to placebo, usual care, or opiates alone (comparisons) improve analgesia or decrease opiate consumption (outcomes)? Methods: A structured search was performed in Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Directory of Open Access Journals, Embase, IEEE-Xplorer, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Magiran, PubMed, Scientific Information Database, Scopus, TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, and Web of Science. Clinical trial registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, and Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry), relevant bibliographies, and conference proceedings were also searched. Searches were not limited by date, language, or publication status. Studies eligible for inclusion were prospective randomized clinical trials enrolling patients (age ≥18 years) with AAP treated in acute care environments (ED, intensive care unit, postoperative). The butyrophenone must have been administered either intravenously or intramuscularly. Comparison groups included placebo, opiate only, corticosteroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or acetaminophen. Results: We identified 7,217 references. Six studies met inclusion criteria. One study assessed ED patients with AAP associated with gastroparesis, whereas five studies assessed patients with postoperative AAP: abdominal hysterectomy (n=4), sleeve gastrectomy (n=1). Three of four studies found improvements in pain intensity with butyrophenone use. Three of five studies reported no change in postoperative opiate consumption, while two reported a decrease. One ED study reported no change in patient satisfaction, while one postoperative study reported improved satisfaction scores. Both extrapyramidal side effects (n=3) and sedation (n=3) were reported as unchanged. Conclusion: Based on available evidence, we cannot draw a conclusion on the efficacy or benefit of neuroleptanalgesia in the management of patients with AAP. However, preliminary data suggest that it may improve analgesia and decrease opiate consumption