Library Catalog
Find textbooks, journals & videos held in Saint Mary's Medical Library.

Borrowing privileges are extended to Saint Mary's staff. Patients and families are welcome to use Library materials on site. The Library welcomes telephone inquiries and will gladly mail health education information to requesters.
Call 775 770 3108 or email donna.alexander@chw.edu

Center for Disease Control
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Community Resource Directory
The United Way of Reno's Crisis Call Center produces this directory of services, "First Call for Help".
Click on Directory of Services & enter your topic (example: alzheimers), or click Outline of Services to see Service Categories.

Family Doctor
Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Food and Drug Administration
The US Department of Health and Human Resources, Food and Drug Administration.

Free Medical Journals Online
1340 Clinical Journals Searchable by Title or Specialty.

HIV InSite
Gateway to AIDS knowledge with comprehesive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco.

Kids Health
Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use.
KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.

Mayo Clinic
A team of Web content producers, editors, multimedia and graphics producers, interactive developers, health educators, nurses, doctors, and scientists produces the Mayo website. They give access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 2,000 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic.

MEDEM Medical Library
A full range of patient education information from MEDEM's partner medical societies and other trusted sources.

Medical Library Current Awareness Service
Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center Employees can access tables of contents from journals held in our collection as well as those held in the University of California and Stanford University collections. You may search, browse or order articles easily from the Web. Click on Account Setup to create your account - a departmental code is required.

Contact Donna Alexander (donna.alexander@chw.edu)in the Medical Library, 770-3108 for assistance and training.

MEDLINE plus (English)
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

MEDLINE plus (Informacion de Salud - En Espanol)
Un servicio de la Biblioteca National De Medicina de EE.UU. y los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud.

Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
MEDLINEplus has expanded to include an online version of Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary. Feedback from our users indicated that they wanted one place to type in a word and get a definition, not a list of dictionaries. MEDLINEplus will still link to subject specific dictionaries from health topic pages.

National Institute of Health
The National Institute of Health; National Biotechnology Information.

Nevada Medicaid & First Health Services Corporation
Information about Nevada Medicaid & links to Provider Information & Prior Authorization & Verification.

Nevada Medical Libraries' Collection
Journals in Nevada Health Sciences Libraries (Reno, Tahoe, Las Vegas)

NevadaHealthNet
NevadaHealthNet.org links Nevadans to health information, resources & services in their community. Sponsored by the University of Nevada School of Medicine, it is a project initiated by the National Library of Medicine.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (English and Spanish)
In 1994, four New York City library organizations joined forces to establish a single website to provide end-users a place on the World Wide Web to reach reliable consumer health information. The organizations: The City University of New York Office of Library Services (CUNY); the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO); The New York Academy of Medicine Library (NYAM); and The New York Public Library (NYPL) - later joined by the Queens Borough Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library - had as a goal the development of a website which would provide health care information easily accessible and understandable to the layperson. The result was NOAH: New York Online Access to Health.

Patient Channel Neighborhood
Patient and family healthcare education programs are available in-room on Channel 74. This site lists information about The Patient Channel, including program titles & the broadcast schedule by day and by topic. Transcripts of the programs are also available in English and Spanish.

PubMed
Medical literature drawn from Medline and PreMedline.

University of Nevada-Reno
University of Nevada-Reno's Savitt Medical Library.

Washoe County Library System
Check out their new online library catalog!

www.healthfinder.gov
Guide to Health Information provided by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Content also offered in Spanish and Content geared for children.

Anesthesiology Group Resources
To see other related websites, copy/paste any of these links into your browser :

http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/
http://www.apsf.org
http://www.faer.org
http://med.stanford.edu/anesthesia/
http://www.nevadaanesthesia.com

Cardiology
Cardiology Journals, news, clinicals trials.

Critical Care Medicine
Society of Critical Care Medicine's Patient & Family website

Dermatology
The American Academy of Dermatology.

Neurology
The American Academy of Neurology.

Nutrition
The American Society for Nutritional Sciences.

Pain Management
The National Academy of Pain Management.

Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics.

Radiology
An environment for the imaging industry to access resources and share information.

Surgery
The American College of Surgeons.

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NDNQI RN Survey
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators link to RN Survey

NDNQI RN Survey - pilot
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators online survey

Nevada State Board of Nursing

Nursing Center
A comprehensive resource for nurses including online CEUs and article databases.

Nursing Education
Through our affiliation with Catholic Healthcare West, Saint Mary's is proud to offer CEUs from our new provider, MyFreeCe.com. This program remains accessible from your home computer, & at no cost to our Nursing Staff.

See your Supervisor, Manager or CNS/Educators for the new registration information. You can now create your own account but you will need the Group Code for activation.

Call Donna Alexander (donna.alexander@chw.edu) in the Medical Library @ 770-3108 for registration information.

The American Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association is a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 54 constituent state associations and 13 organizational affiliate members.

TipTV CEU Courses for Imaging Services
TipTV from GEHealthcare offers CEUs in Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Nuclear Medicine/PET
Ultrasound, X-ray & X-ray Mammography
for Imaging Technologists, plus courses for Pharmacists, Nurses & other healthcare professionals.
Call Donna Alexander, Medical Librarian, ext 3108 for registration information.

National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NCI, established under the National Cancer Act of 1937, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.

ACPMedicine Professional Library
WebMd's Professional Library for CMEs.
Users must subscribe individually.

Audio-Digest : CME audio books
CME audio books in MP3cast format!!

"Listen to streaming audio lectures from your computer, read the concise summary, or you may download and save the MP3 and PDF files, to transfer the lectures to your portable player, and/or future online reference. You may even print your own CDs to play in your car. (vendor info)

CMEweb
Continuing Medical Education Resources.

eMedicine
Continuing Medical Education resources.

MD Consult
CME Users must create a Personal Account to access CME programs.
CHW/SMRMC users: MDConsult can be accessed from home via CHWConnect with your NetworkID.

MDCalc
Quick access to medical calculations, equations & scores.

Medscape
Medical Speciality links, patient education, articles, practice management.

NCME : Network for Continuing Medical Education
NCME TV is a series of professionally produced CME video programs on JCAHO and state-mandated topics. After registration, physicians will receive an email alert when new programs are available. Programs are accesible 24/7. Call Donna Alexander (ext 3108) for more information.

UNR Medicine Residency Hospitalist Elective
This elective aims to polish content skills by adding expertise in the process of interacting with patients, their families, primary care physicians, and hospital staff