作品简介: 奎伦医学院图书馆 has been an active and integral contributor in 为田纳西州农村和服务不足的人服务了近20年. 它已经达到 thousands of people and raised almost a half a million dollars in grants that have 有助于改善田纳西州农村地区的整体健康状况. Quillen大学 医学图书馆在田纳西州和美国率先开展了多个外展项目 continues to provide quality health information to populations who would otherwise 无法获得这些重要资源.
医疗诊所: 奎伦医学院图书馆为35人提供外展图书馆服务
medical clinics in 田纳西州 including online searching, full-text journal articles,
个人网站访问和智能手机协助. 所有这些诊所都是联邦政府的
资助的诊所.
Technology: 奎伦医学院图书馆 obtained a $107,000 grant from the
National 图书馆 of 医学 (NLM) to place personal computers with MD Consult subscriptions
供农村医院的医生使用. 奎伦医学院图书馆
partnered with the 田纳西州 Hospital Association (THA) in a project that provided
approximately 130 PDA devices with medical software to rural doctors and nurses in
八医院. 该项目荣获农村卫生院“年度示范项目”
田纳西州协会(RHAT). 在另一个由国家网络资助的项目中
of Libraries of 医学 Southeast Atlantic Region (NN/LM SEA), 80 devices were provided
to eight more rural hospitals for their clinical staff along with free document delivery
通过LoansomeDoc. 奎伦医学院图书馆也完成了第三个项目
funded by NN/LM SEA, in which 100 PDA's were provided to rural clinicians in ten rural
通过LoansomeDoc免费提供文件的医院. 总共有300多名临床医生
in 26 rural hospitals have received PDAs with EBM point-of-护理-tools and a drug database.
公共卫生部门: 奎伦医学院图书馆 has provided library services for public health
在田纳西州95个县中的39个县. 它提供了中介数据库
通过LoansomeDoc提供搜索和文件传递服务. 它创造了几个指导性的
在Lifepath网站(http://www)上为公共卫生工作者提供播客.tnphtc.org/).
Lifepath provides academic and nonacademic training opportunities for the public health
横跨田纳西州和弗吉尼亚州西南部的劳动力.
公共图书馆: 奎伦医学院图书馆 has developed a state-wide outreach program to public library workers for consumer health information delivery called "A Simple Plan". Approximately 1,000 non-urban public library attendees participated over a five year 期. Of these, 250 received the 医疗 图书馆 Association's Consumer Health 信息 完成12小时培训的专业证书. 伙伴关系是 formed with regional library directors who brought together public library workers 在他们的多个县地区的计算机实验室进行培训. 这 project has been featured in the 医疗 图书馆 Association News and presented at 许多会议.
医院(贵重物品): VALUABLES or Value Added 图书馆 Users Access to the Biomedical Literature via Electronic Systems is the program the 奎伦医学院图书馆 has established for professional health information outreach services to small, regional, rural hospitals. 这些地区主要是贫穷、农村、山区和服务不足的地区. 这个项目赢得了 "Exemplary Project of the Year" from the Rural Health 田纳西州协会(RHAT) and the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries (CONBLS) Project of the Year award. The library has provided library services to 34 hospitals (journal articles, literature 搜索、拨款、培训、定期实地考察).
健康差异组: 奎伦医学院图书馆 has conducted outreach with several hard-to-reach 保健服务不足的农村群体. 为一组农村医疗诊所，谁 provide services for Hispanic migrants, it helped secure grant funding totaling $71,000 来自NN/LM SEA. 这是用来开发戏剧，并在移民上演 camps to demonstrate good health practices on topics such as diabetes and perinatal 护理. 大约有2000名移民以积极的态度观看了这些戏剧 健康结果.
- 奎伦医学院图书馆 obtained $40,000 来自NN/LM SEA for 差 College
of Public Health undergraduate students to teach MedlinePlus in several high schools
在本区域，以青少年健康为重点.
- 奎伦医学院图书馆 completed an NN/LM SEA funded project which taught
cohorts of rural Appalachian pastors how to find cancer consumer health information
从医疗在线. 宗教在阿巴拉契亚非常重要，因此牧师也很重要
can be an excellent portal to deliver quality consumer health information to people
慢性疾病. 每个教会都被要求制定一个卫生事工计划
为了他们的会众.
- 奎伦医学院图书馆 obtained funding 来自NN/LM SEA to help a local rural hospital buy Wii devices to increase physical activity in its geriatric nursing home and to train nurses to use MedlinePlus for their own use and to educate families 和病人.
- 奎伦医学院图书馆 led a team on four Remote Area 医疗 (RAM) expeditions.
RAM为贫困工人提供免费医疗、牙科和视力保健. 几千
患者从奎伦医学院获得消费者健康信息
图书馆团队.
- 奎伦医学院 obtained grant funding to provide personal computers for patients to use for consumer health information needs and tablet devices for clinicians 在护理点获取最佳证据信息. 这些都是可信的 以免费医疗诊所为基础治疗没有保险的人.
展品: 奎伦医学院图书馆定期参加，展览，并在
the Rural Health Association of 田纳西州 and the 田纳西州 Public Health Association.
奎伦医学院图书馆 has also exhibited at the 田纳西州 Academy of
Family Practice, 田纳西州 ACOG 集团, 田纳西州 Pharmacists Association, 田纳西州
卫生系统药剂师协会和田纳西州初级保健协会. 通过
this continued role in these organizations, it has built and sustained countless relationships
with health 护理 workers across 田纳西州, which many of the outreach projects have
从这些接触中受益.
研究: 奎伦医学院图书馆对这种效果进行了随机试验
of using PDAs as an outreach to rural clinicians which was presented at the bi-annual
以证据为基础的图书馆事业和信息实践(elip)会议.
对同一项目进行了定性分析. elip是一个以研究为重点的图书馆
集团. 奎伦医学院图书馆在2011年ebrlip会议上发表了一篇论文
on a qualitative analysis of the "Simple Plan" outreach to consumer health audiences
通过公共图书馆. 奎伦医学院图书馆进行了定量分析
study on the 信息 Needs of Health护理 Professionals in Rural Northeast 田纳西州
以及NETAHEC在满足这些需求方面的有效性. 它进行了一个横截面
longitudinal analysis of the information needs of health护理 professionals in rural
在这项研究十年后的田纳西州东北部. 它进行了一项定量研究
关于居民的信息需求. 它对大多数人进行了随机试验
effective way to do outreach to hospitals and clinics that won 2nd prize for research
医学图书馆协会(MLA)年会上的论文.
出版物: 奎伦医学院图书馆 has presented numerous outreach papers and posters
在专业会议上多次获奖
both at the 医疗 图书馆 Association and Southern Chapter/ 医疗 图书馆 Association
会议.