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Acland's Video Atlas provides narrated videos of human anatomy, offering detailed visual explorations of structures with clear explanations, valuable for students and professionals.
Bates' Visual Guide offers step-by-step video demonstrations of physical examination techniques, including history taking and inspection. It's essential for enhancing clinical skills and diagnostic accuracy.
VisualDx is an interactive tool with a vast image library of skin and medical conditions, aiding diagnosis through visual cues and detailed clinical information.
UpToDate offers evidence-based medical information across specialties, providing current, peer-reviewed content for diagnosis and treatment. It helps healthcare professionals make informed decisions and maintain high-quality patient care.
Antibiotic resource provides updated, evidence-based information on treating infectious diseases, including drug choices, dosages, adverse reactions, interactions, diagnoses, pathogens, and access to medical literature with reference links.
The "National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report 2023" evaluates the performance of the U.S. healthcare system in terms of quality and disparities. It highlights improvements and ongoing challenges in healthcare access, quality, and equity, with a focus on underserved populations. The report aims to inform policy decisions and promote strategies to reduce disparities and enhance overall healthcare quality.
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021) outlines a vision for nursing, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare. It proposes transformative strategies to address social determinants of health, enhance workforce diversity, and advance nursing education to meet evolving healthcare needs.
The emerging field of implementation science (IS) facilitates the sustainment of evidence-based practice in clinical care. This article, the second in a series on applying IS, describes how a nurse-led IS team at a multisite health system implemented the Brøset Violence Checklist—a validated, evidence-based tool to predict a patient’s potential to become violent—in the system’s adult EDs, with the aim of decreasing the rate of violence against staff. The authors discuss how they leveraged IS concepts, methods, and tools to achieve this goal.
Community engagement can foster a sense of purpose and promote a culture of reciprocity. By participating in a community engagement project, students can learn to identify healthcare disparities and work collaboratively toward positive outcomes and solutions.