National Center for Biotechnology has tools, downloads and educational materials for clinicians.
Recently on an information search, this very informative site called the National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI] produced some very good clinical articles needed for a patient care issue. That lead to further exploring the NCBI site. At the NCBI site, you have the ability to sign up for a personal account which then can maintain your collection of clinical materials researched. The resources best used in this clinician's practice has been the PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ , the PubMed Health at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ and the available clinical guides at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/s/clinical_guides_medrev/a/ . Another area to explore is Bookshelf at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/ . The NCBI site gets a big kudos for its easy-to-use format and its built-in "get started" and "quick start guide" features. One of NCBI's nice change-of-pace features is called Coffee Break at http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2345/ .... the contents were interesting and it was fun to read. Overall, the NCBI site is an excellent resource to explore, gain clinical knowledge from and a place to look for tools to use in your practice and/or research.
copyright 2013 Kim Kozina Evanoski, MPA, LMSW - Care Manage For All LLC
Finding useful healthcare resource sites as care professionals is time consuming, for sure! Some of us enjoy it and some of us find the task of weeding through clinical and resource materials on many websites pretty overwhelming. One website that has caught my attention and will be bookmarked for future use is called The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Effective Health Care Program [http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/]. They have consumer guides and clinical guides that seem helpful and informative. I value guides that help clinicians teach patients and help also with professional development resources to share with other clinicians. There are new patient decision guides which could be effective in certain treatment areas, hence assisting the clinicians' work at coaching and navigating our care partners. Four other reasons a clinician may want to connect to this site: 1. the ability to participate in studies, research or comment, 2. just be kept current on clinical information or patient educational tools, 3. the website addresses quality care, effective and best practices, offers white papers, manages tools, supplies summaries and is open to comments, and 4. it's a site that makes you think about your practice. These may be good reasons to take a look!
copyright 2012 Kim Kozina Evanoski, MPA, LMSW - Care Manage For All
Kim Evanoski, MPA, LMSW
Sharing information is important, actual vital, to geriatric care management.
As a private care manager in Upstate New York, I find myself not feeling isolated but instead "technologically embraced" by a whole neighborhood of virtual professionals in many varied fields - healthcare, aging, services to families, social workers, geriatric care managers, healthcare and aging media professionals, technology professionals, etc. All these professionals help me everyday do a better job for those I care for professionally.
This is why I am creating a Care-Professional-Exchange blog.
This Care-Professional-Exchange blog is one way I can give back to the "professions". That is, share what others so generously pass on to me.
I invite all who provide care to freely "exchange" ideas, tips and information so it helps us care-partner better. You are welcome to use the comment area below to share your knowledge or feel free to contact me at caremanageforall@gmail.com so I can post information sent in to share with others.
My personal thank you to the many professionals who share so willingly as we move within such a technologically fast-paced changing health and aging continuum of care.
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