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Drug Information Portal

News from the National Library of Medicine!

The National Library of Medicine has developed a free online Drug Information Portal that you may be interested in. Information from their web site states:

"The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences.

Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC. The search box in the middle of the page lets you search many of these resources simultaneously. More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.

You may search by a drug's trade name or generic name. For example, the trade name "Advil" and the generic name "ibuprofen" will retrieve the same drug record. A spell checker gives suggestions if the name is not found. You can find embedded portions of names by using an asterisk at the beginning and/or end of a search term. Once a drug is found, a summary of the drug's type and usage is given, as well as links leading to further information at one of the portal's resources. Outside links open in a new window. Within a given drug record, you may click on the drug category and retrieve drugs with the same or similar uses. "

Recreational Reading is good for you!

Our Summer Reading Program was a great success, and we have decided to keep it going. It's now an ongoing, 4-season Recreational Reading Program!

The wonderful collection of novels and non-fiction books has grown to 75. You can view the full list on our Library Thing catalogue: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/royal1

Please drop by and sign out a book, or donate an old favourite that you'd like to share with others.

Learn @ Work Week @ your Library!

In support of Learn @ Work Week, the library will be hosting open houses at each of it's libraries. The new BMHC Medical Library located in the Forensic Treatment Unit, Brockville Mental Health Centre had it's grand opening, and Open House on Tuesday September 23. A great number of staff came to check out the new spot, and after completing a short quiz, entered their names for a door prize - $25.00 gift card for Chapters / Coles Bookstore.

The ROMHC Medical Library will be holding it's open house all day on Thursday September 25. Drop by room 2100 to meet the staff, check out the resources, and enter your name for another door prize!

Hope to see you then,

Cathy.

Sleep on It! How Snoozing Makes You Smarter!

In the latest issue of Scientific American Mind, Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen have written an article on sleep. They claim, "During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems."

Key Concepts from the article:

• As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.


• Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.


• Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake.

You can read the full article online at: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-snoozing-makes-you-smarter

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Following from the successful workshop on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy held here in June, we now have three new books on this topic for loan:

ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS :A PRACTITIONER'S TREATMENT GUIDE TO USING MINDFULNESS, ACCEPTANCE, AND VALUES-BASED BEHAVIOR CHANGE STRATEGIES
Eifert, G H ; Forsyth, J P Call Number: RC 531 .E36 2005

LEARNING ACT : AN ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY SKILLS-TRAINING MANUAL FOR THERAPISTS
Luoma, Jason B ; Hayes, Steven C ; Walser, Robyn D Call Number: RC 489.A32 L86 2007

THE MINDFULNESS AND ACCEPTANCE WORKBOOK FOR ANXIETY : A GUIDE TO BREAKING FREE FROM ANXIETY, PHOBIAS, AND WORRY USING ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY
Forsyth, John P ; Eifert, G H Call Number: RC 531 .F67 2008

To see what else is new, click the "New Books" link on the left.

Read any good books lately?

Looking ahead to the relaxing days of summer and a change of pace from journals and textbooks, we've gathered together some of the books we've read recently. Come browse and borrow. You can borrow a book for as long as you like. To make this even better, we invite you to bring any of your favourite books that you would like to share. Here's the list:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/royal1

Note: For a description of each book, click on the title and then on "description" on the left.

Patient Safety and Quality : an evidence-based handbook for nurses

Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care—not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.

To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality—Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043).
Experts in the field reviewed the literature, and their contributions are grouped into these sections:

Patient Safety and Quality / Evidence-based Practice / Patient-centered Care / Working Conditions—Work Environment / Critical Opportunities for Patient Safety and Quality / Tools

The full 1400 page handbook can be downloaded here: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Nightingale Declaration : sign it now!

Dear ROHCG Nurses,

Here is the Nightingale Declaration for global health! You can sign the declaration by clicking on the link below.

"We, the nurses and concerned citizens of the global community, hereby dedicate ourselves to the accomplishment of a healthy world by the year 2020.

We declare our willingness to unite in a program of action, sharing information and solutions to resolve problems and improve conditions -- locally, nationally and globally -- in order to achieve health for all humanity.

We further resolve to adopt personal practices and to implement public policies in our communities and nations, making this goal for the year 2020 achievable and inevitable, beginning today in our own lives, in the life of our nations and in the world at large."

Sign it now by visiting this website: http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net/ or drop by the library to pick up a Nightingale Declaration postcard.

Happy Nurses Week!

Nursing Week in the Library (May 12-16)

Calling all nurses! To help celebrate Nurses Week, and Florence Nightingale's birthday, the library will host a special display of books. Please drop by anytime, and have a look.

All nurses are eligible to enter in a draw for a book written by Flo herself! A replica of the original "Notes on Nursing" will be the prize at the end of the week.

Remember: Nurses working evenings, nights, and weekends will be able to check out the display, and enter their names for the draw. After-hours access is available to all staff by paging security.

Used Book Sale in the Library!

Spring is upon us, and we have weeded the library collection
to make room for new growth!

Used books are for sale, staring @ $1.00 each, and are available for all disciplines. (psychology, management, HR, nursing etc...)

The used book sale will be on-going, and new items will be added each week.

PsychiatryOnline.com - trial

We have set up a short (2 week) trial on the PsychiatryOnline.com website. This site is produced and maintained by the American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. and contains online access to many of their core titles - including books, journals, practice guidelines and more! Please check it out and let us know what you think - it may be possible for us to subscribe to this service.

For the login and password information, please contact us in the library. (phone: 6268/6832)

*New* - International Journal of Cognitive Therapy

The International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, official journal of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, is now available at your library. Read the first issue on line

E.K. Koranyi Review Course in Psychiatry

CDs of the 2008 Koranyi Review Course in Psychiatry are now available at the Medical Library and can be borrowed for one week.

You can download handouts of all the lectures from the University of Ottawa's website

March is Nutrition Month!

March is the time of year when we celebrate Nutrition Month. Looking forward to spring and summer, it's time to look at our eating and physical activity habbits. Health Canada has a great web site to help you find out everything you need to know. The Canada Food Guide was changed recently, and now includes versions for our First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Canadians.

You can access the web site here: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index_e.html

To accompany the food guide, Health Canada has also developed Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living.

Stay tuned for updates on this topic!

Happy Nutrition Month!

Psychology Month: Week 4 : Assessment

Hi Folks! Well, it's already week 4 of Psychology Month! This week's topic is Psychological Assessment. Here is the list of books that will be on display for the week beginning February 25th.

Adolescent Suicide: A School-based Approach to Assessment and Intervention - Kirk
Handbook of Psychological Assessment - Goldstein & Hersen
Psychological Assessment, Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Planning - Hurt, Reznikoff, Clarkin
The Millon Inventories: Clinical and Personality Assessment - Millon
Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment - Strack
Assessment Scales in Depression, Mania and Anxiety - Lam, Michalak & Swinson
Practical Guidelines to the Assessment of the Sexually Abused Child - Horsham, Bradford, McCormack, Denton
Defiant Teens: A Clinician's Manual of Assessment and Family Intervention - Barkley, Robin & Edwards
Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in Adolescents: Nature, Assessment and Treatment - Mash & Wolfe
Family Assessment: Rationale, Methods and Future Directions - Jacob & Tennenbaum
Assessment of Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa - Williamson & Davis
Assessment, Treatment and Community Management of Violence - Harris & Rice
Concise Guide to Assessment and Management of Violent Patients - Tardiff
Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Assessment - Rogers
Geriatric Neuropsychology: Assessment and Intervention - Attix & Welsh-Bohmer
Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment - Snyder & Nussbaum
Neuropsychological Assessment - Lezak
Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment - Kaufman & Lichtenberger
Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment - Kaufman & Flanagan

Thanks to all that dropped by, and remember, these lists are just a sample of the full collection. You can search the full catalogue of books by clicking on the link on the left hand side of the page.

Psychology Month: Week 3: Supervision

The week of Feb 19th, marks the beginning of week 3 for Psychology Month. This week's topic is clinical supervision. The display in the library during this (short) week, is smaller, yet very important! Please drop by to check it out.

Supervision
* Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision - Bernard & Goodyear(1992 and 1998)
* Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision - Watkins
* Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research and Practice - Hess
* Mentoring and Supervision: Creating Relalationship for Fostering Professional Development - Baptiste
* Key Skills and Techniques: The Supervisor's Handbook - Hollingworth
* Assorted supervision articles from journals.

Group, Couples & Family Therapy

Our Psychology Theme for week 2 is Group, Couples and Family Therapy, and here is a list of a few of the books that will be on display next week. (Feb11-15)

Group Psychological Treatment:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Groups - Bieling, McCabe, & Antony
Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Specific Settings and Presenting Problems - Christner, Stewart & Freeman
Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Phobia - Heimberg & Becker
Comprehensive Group Psychotherapy - Kaplan & Sadock
Group Psychotherapy for People with Chronic Mental Illness - Stone
Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Specific Problems and Populations - White & Freeman

Couples Psychological Treatment:
Emotionally focused therapy for couples - Greenberg & Johnson
Couple and Family Therapy of Addiction - Levin
Couples in Conflict: New Directions in Marital Therapy - Gurman & Rice

Family Psychological Treatment
Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders - Mueser, Tornvall & Glynn
Ethnicity and Family Therapy - Giordano, McGoldrick, & Garcia-Preto
Family Therapy and Major Psychopathology - Lansky

Please drop by anytime to have a look.

Individual Therapy : Psychology Week

Welcome to week one of Psychology Week! The focus this week is individual therapy. As you may know, the library has a great psychology collection, thanks to the amazing recommendations we receive from all of our psychologists. Here are a few that are on display this week:

Individual Treatment Books:
1. Emotion Focused Therapy for Depression - Greenberg & Watson
2. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents - Mufson
3. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents - Miller, Rathus, & Linehan
4. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy of Schizophrenia - Kingdon & Turkington
5. Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders - Beck
6. Practicing Harm-Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions- Denning
7. Social Phobia: Clinical Application of Evidence-based Psychotherapy - Rapee and colleagues
8. Treating Alcohol and Drug Problems in Psychotherapy Practice: Doing What Works - Washton & Zweben
9. Treating the Elderly with Psychotherapy : the Scope of Change in Later Life - Sadavoy & Leszcz
10. Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder - Linehan

For your convenience, there is a take-away list on the display table. Please note, that for this week only, we would like the books to remain on display. There will be a new display next week.

Enjoy!

Psychology Month!

Feburary 2008 is Psychology Month, and the library will be hosting weekly displays of books on different topics. Stay tuned for a new reading list each week! The first book display will begin on Monday February 4. Please drop by the library anytime between 8am - 4pm.

Happy Psychology Month!

New Year - New Books!

If you would like to learn more about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), check out this new book.
"This concise overview of TMS offers practical guidance for psychiatrists and other clinicians using it as a therapy, or referring their patients to have this done, as well as updating the field for neuroscientists and neurologists. It begins with background on the physics and safety of TMS, a guide for administering the procedure, and a review of basic neurophysiological studies with TMS, showing how it can be used to measure connectivity and excitability of the cerebral cortex. The heart of book is then devoted to its clinical applications, organized by disorder"(American Psychiatric Publishing Inc web site)

Here's a list of our other new books for January:

THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING TEXTBOOK OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCES
Yudofsky, Stuart C ; Hales, Robert E

CLINICAL MANUAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW
Simon, Robert I ; Shuman, Daniel W

ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE
Levenson, James L

MANAGING METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES IN THE PSYCHIATRICALLY ILL : A CLINICAL GUIDE FOR PSYCHIATRISTS
Bermudes, Richard A ; Keck, Paul E Jr. ; McElroy, Susan L

MANUAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Schatzberg, Alan F ; Cole, Jonathan O ; DeBattista, Charles

TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION IN CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
George, Mark S ; Belmaker, Robert H

TRAUMATIC DISSOCIATION : NEUROBIOLOGY AND TREATMENT
Vermetten, Eric ; Dorahy, Martin J ; Spiegel, David

Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare

"A 100-page book – ‘Testing Treatments: better research for better health care’ – was published by the British Library in 2006 and is available online without charge, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
This book is good for our health. It shines light on the mysteries of how life and death decisions are made. It shows howthose judgements are often badly flawed and it sets a challenge for doctors across the globe to mend theirways. Yet it accomplishes this without unnecessary scares; and it warmly admires much of what modern medicine has achieved."

To view and read the book online, please click here.