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From Iris Johnston, Library Specialist, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Library
Three Collections of Short Stories
I love a short story. In our fast-paced world, a good short story delivers complexity and nuance in a brief page length. No pointless subplots, no B-tier characters whose names I’ve already forgotten, and no room for authors to indulge what Stephen King calls “diarrhea of the pen.” Here are 3 of my favorite collections of short s…
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Making it easier to find and connect to quality information resources.
The Library collaborates with Nursing Services to provide a robust collection of databases, books, and journals, supporting your journey from learner to degreed professional. We care about your success, and we strive to deliver the best tools available to advance your practice.
Nursing Library
Discover: search for articles, books and more
Nursing databases
Certification Review Books & Nursing Case Studies are highl…
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“Where do I look for the nursing e-books collections?” This is a question we hear frequently, and we have a few tools to help you find the book you need.
Directly in the middle of our homepage is our Discovery Tool, Library eResources. Select the Books tab and type the title of the book you want or simply, ‘nursing’ if you prefer to browse instead, then click the search button. There is also an advance search option or the ability to search by specialty to narrow down th…
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Black Americans have been practicing medicine since before the Revolutionary War. And the path has always been challenging. This timeline highlights a brief sample of the enormous contributions that Black Americans have made to the medical profession. As far back as 1721, Onesimus, an enslaved African, described a smallpox inoculation and, in 1783, James Durham became the first Black American doctor. Yet it took until 2018 for the American Medical Association to elect its first Black female Pres…
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Highlights of the library’s digital collections in 2022 featured:
"A Faster Way to Access Full Text" was the most read blog post
Dermatology was the most viewed Specialty Guide
"The nurses' experience of caring for a renal transplant recipient when admitted to hospital" was the most visited article
The New England Journal of Medicine was the most used journal
Creasy and Resnik's Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice, Eighth Edition was the most used eBook
Look ou…
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A key component to making Better Health, Easier is understanding what health literacy is and how each of us play a critical role in ensuring our patients are supported through the continuum of care.
“What is health literacy?
Health literacy is the ability to read, understand, remember, and use information to make decisions about your health.
Being health literate also means you can follow your health care provider's treatment instructions.
People with low health literacy unde…
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Browse new and popular print books you can borrow from HSL with our new book carousel. Just like the rotating carousel in a park, we’ll periodically update the list to show you our latest titles.
Check out the carousel under the Library News feed. You can also search our entire collection in the library catalog.
If you are not based at the Geisinger Medical Center campus, but would like to borrow any of our print books from the library’s collection, please email hsl…
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