Past Funded Projects

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers at a large occupational therapy practice. This will improve the treatment of patients, the sharing of information, and facilitate increased collaboration and education of staff, patients, and families. Through a home program development, work with families, and staff training information from the National Library of Medicine will be more efficiently and effectively shared.

The project will promote the opening of the new library space would build on the momentum already generated this year and extend the reach of library service to team members not currently aware of its benefits. An additional emphasis on promoting free resources from the National Library of Medicine during the opening day event will further give team members tools to support their patients and thus improve health outcomes across the institution.

To support community health nurses across the State of Nevada by providing instruction and promotion of freely available health information, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM resources. This award would allow us to re-visit the nursing clinics across the state. Funding will be used for visits to gather input from the nurses and to strengthen our online portal that was developed during the first year of funding from NNLM PSR. REMARKS: Goals include: 1.

The goal of this project is that the University of Utah and the Eccles Health Sciences Library are recognized as leaders in research reproducibility through the development and implementation of a week-long immersive course in June 2018 on research reproducibility. Objectives: 1. 80% of trainees, 133s and librarians attending the immersive course will report learning new concepts, principles, and techniques in reproducible research. 2. 80% of 133s and grantee attendees will report increased awareness of issues surrounding research reproducibility.

Funding is requested to support travel to the National Association of School Nurses to support the dissemination of evidence-based information.

Lack of access to treatment for youth living in medically underserved areas with a mental health condition can lead to poor academic performance, substance use, hospitalization, and attempted or completed suicide. The 2008 88tal Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires health insurance plans to provide mental health and substance use disorder benefits equal to those of medical/surgical benefits, and the Affordable Care Act requires plans to offer mental health care benefits.

Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project is requesting a grant award in the amount of $16,338.00 to work with Penn State Fayette, Eberly Campus, Nursing Program, to provide information relating to the potential health effects of exposure to unconventional oil and gas development UOGD to individuals in proximity to these activities. To achieve this goal, we will work with nursing faculty, the campus nurse, and students BSN and RN to BSN to educate and disseminate information about UOGD.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to raise awareness regarding the topic of domestic violence among residents in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties. CEFLS plans to collaborate with STOP Domestic Violence to coordinate a series of events in our shared service area.

Through the Arizona Outreach Subaward, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library UAHSL will execute a variety of activities designed to reach out to various communities in our largely 95, highly diverse state. Of particular interest are 126s and public health workers; 'promotores de salud'; K-12 students; Hispanic, Native American, and border populations; public librarians especially in 95 areas; and individuals and communities who experience disparities in health care.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME requires each institution with a graduate medical education training program to make available adequate resources for fellow education. For nephrology training programs, a meeting room with visual and other educational aids is required. The nephrology fellowship program offers didactic sessions to the fellows in a conference room without a TV, and a small whiteboard for projection.

Funding is requested for Alison Wessel and Bethany Geleskie to attend the Maryland and Delaware Library Association's annual conference.

This project seeks to make accessible for students health and citizen science curriculum by creating a robust educational learning experience across grade levels. These will be in the areas of health and nutrition, Human Anatomy, ecology, and data collection. Learning will incorporate resources from the National Library of Medicine and the Research Program. Programming will be done in conjunction with the Shrewsbury, MA Public Library

This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for 88 and 86. This proposed project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the Hospital Wellness Workshop facility, in selected physicians' and school nurse offices and used in health clinics for 109s and community senior events. The Health Librarian will train the health professionals to use the iPads and review specific NLM databases.

The Massachusetts Action Coalition MAAC, which is co-led by the Organization of Nurse Leaders ONL and part of a national campaign to build a culture of health across the nation, proposes to develop and implement an initiative to promote health literacy and overall health and wellness of students in selected communities. In this phased project, we intend to utilize the existing structure of School Wellness Committees SWC, which are mandated by M.G.L.