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PNR 110 and NUR 134

These websites will be useful for your your cultural awareness assignment.

Culture, Language and Health Literacy
Discusses why effective health communication is as important to health care as clinical skill.
HHS Office of Minority Health
Mission is to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.
Think Cultural Health
Minority Nurse
The leading career resource for nurses and the largest dedicated diversity nursing jobs board.

Communication in Nursing Practice
Discusses how communication between nurses and patients is essential for the successful outcome of individualized nursing care of each patient.
Effective Communication in Nursing
This article discusses how effective communication with patients and health care professionals can help build relationships, prevent mistakes and provide a higher level of care.
Effective Interpersonal Communication
This article briefly explores Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, variables that can impact communication, and discusses possible causes and consequences of ineffective communication.
Effective Communication and Care Coordination
NQF measures and standards serve as a critically important foundation for initiatives to enhance healthcare value, make patient care safer, and achieve better outcomes.

Targeting Health-Care Associated Infections
Reviews the evidence-based knowledge on health care–associated infections, highlighting important information for nurses caring for hospitalized patients.
Practical Guidelines for Infection Control
Provides comprehensive information to health care workers in the prevention and control of transmissible infections.
Health Care Associated Infections
Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nutrition.gov
Provides easy access to vetted food and nutrition information from across the federal government.
Nutrition
Nutritional information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
The mission of ODS is to strengthen knowledge and understanding of dietary supplements by evaluating scientific information, stimulating and supporting research, disseminating research results, and educating the public to foster an enhanced quality of life and health for the U.S. population.

Pain Assessment and Management
Focuses on evidence supporting the management of acute pain experienced by hospitalized adults.
Pain Assessment: the cornerstone to optimal pain management
The WILDA approach to pain assessment offers a concise template for assessment in patients with acute and chronic pain.

Patient Safety and Quality
Provides some fundamental definitions that link patient safety with health care quality.
Patient Safety
NQF measures and standards serve as a critically important foundation for initiatives to enhance healthcare value, make patient care safer, and achieve better outcomes.
Patient Safety: A Shared Responsibility
This article describes what a variety of individuals and groups have done, and what yet remains to be done, to promote safe care for all.
National Patient Safety Goals
The Joint Commission accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States
Creating a Safe Healthcare Environment
Maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care.
Teaching the Culture of Safety

Medical Record Documentation
This fact sheet is designed to help providers understand how to provide accurate and supportive medical record documentation.
Fundamentals of Medical Record Documentation
This discussion will outline some basic principles of sound documentation with an emphasis on those aspects that serve the goals of risk management and liability prevention.
Health Information Privacy
Right to privacy under HIPAA
Documentation (From Advance Journal)

These databases will provide scholarly resources related to medical and surgical nursing.

CINAHL complete with full text
The world’s most comprehensive nursing and allied health research database, CINAHL provides full text for hundreds of journals indexed in the CINAHL database, and includes a higher number of records, additional journals, records dating back to 1937 and expanded content. Additional material includes Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline the most effective treatment options.
Credo Reference
Provides access to full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
A trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
MEDLINE
A great resource for Nursing or Health Science research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete. Contains 5,000 journals, which contains information about over 12 million journal articles.
CultureGrams
Explore the cultural aspects of many different countries. Contains information on daily life, healthcare, history, family structure and customs.

Use these resources to find scholarly print and electronic books related to medical and surgical nursing.

Ebook Central
A collection of eBooks ranging across all academic subjects. eBook Central gives students and faculty seamless and immediate access to the eBooks they need.
EBSCO Academic Collection
A collection of multidisciplinary eBooks representing a wide range of academic subjects.

PASCAL Delivers
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