Past Funded Projects

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Managing diabetes is a full-time job for patients. They must adhere to medication regimens, monitor glucose levels, adopt new diets and make smart life-style decisions to avoid disease complications and maintain a good quality of life. Tablet computers, through their multimedia capabilities, interactive features, and touch screen functionality can enhance learning across patient populations. Tablet computers can also act as an APRN extender for patient education.

The UND Health Sciences Library has assigned clinical campus librarians to work in four quadrants of the state. The four clinical campus librarians work in the cities of Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot, and serve as the designated library contacts for healthcare professionals and consumers located within those quadrants. The Library's Interim Director and these four clinical campus librarians will form the core project group that will plan and complete these outreach activities

We will continue supporting our education program with previous participants who wish to continue. However, we are shifting our strategy to move into public spaces and reach people of all ages to expand the awareness of the importance of proper coughing and sneezing etiquette. Dense, highly traveled areas where public are required to be for purposes such as transportation, judicial hearings, and attendance at public zoos and other areas, are the focus of this year's campaign to educate and encourage proper sneezing and coughing etiquette.

The Arc of Whatcom County serves as the lead agency for Whatcom Taking Action, a collaborative of community leaders, parents, service and care providers working to create a cohesive system of services and support for 86 impacted by developmental, behavioral and other special healthcare needs. As part of Taking Action, the SEAS Single Entry Access to Services program, housed at the Opportunity Council, provides a centralized intake system and single point of contact for families to connect to resources and information.

Managing a primary care panel is an ever-changing experience. Physicians, medical support staff, administrative staff and patients need to be engaged in the circle of care. Tablet computers, through their multimedia capabilities, interactive features, and touch screen functionality can enhance learning across patient populations. Tablet computers can also act as communication portal and a care engagement tool. Tablets offer better consistency and quality control of the educational message while also overcoming literacy and language barriers.

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Scanning for Science: Increasing Access to the Future of Medicine: The Nova Southeastern University Health Professions Division Library plays a central role in supporting education and research, and works to provide access to new technologies for students and faculty.The NSU HPD Library supports seven colleges, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Optometry, Health Care Sciences, Nursing, and Medical Sciences, so the library is an ideal space for collaboration. The library currently provides 3D printing and hopes to expand this service with free 3D scanning.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain assistive technology for use in five Life Skills classrooms at Roosevelt Elementary School in Worcester, MA. Roosevelt Elementary houses three life skills classrooms grades kindergarten through six and two Autism/Life Skills classrooms grades kindergarten through six. This technology will be used daily in the Life Skills classrooms, servicing a total of 36 students. This proposal requests funds to purchase Ipads for students use, Bluetooth switches to access the technology, ipad bumper covers and Ipad apps.

If I am able to attend, the MLA Annual Meeting will be my first major professional Library event and will serve as a springboard for me to launch my career as a Health Sciences Librarian. This event will offer me to opportunity to begin engaging with a nationwide network of medical librarians, particularly through my participation in the Colleague Connection mentorship program and First-Time Attendees Program, as well as to meet some of the vendors with whom I will be working in my new position.

Provide health education and health information searching skills for individuals in most need with a focus on affordable food selections, simple meal preparation, and physical activity engagement to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Funds from this award will be used to attend the Medical Library Association Conference in Seattle on May 26-31, 2017. A poster abstract I submitted was accepted and I would like to attend to present the poster. The poster represents a health and wellness community collaborative developed and implemented at the Munson Community Health Library in Traverse City, Michigan.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain state of the art technology in the science and health classrooms at Saint Joseph School in Webster, MA. Saint Joseph School serves student's pre-k through eighth grade, totaling approximately 200 students. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase tablets for students use and complete the wireless infrastructure necessary for use within the classrooms. Using the tablets, the students will be able to wirelessly share and compare their work from multiple devices at the same time a projector for all to see.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer an 8-session program for 20 high-school girls enrolled in Eureka a 5-year program that involves at-risk girls in planned activities and education that increases their opportunity for success in STEM education and careers. This program will take place from November 2016 through February 2017, and will complement and enhance the Eureka curriculum. Each year, girls participate in Eureka for 4 weeks during the summer 160 hours followed by monthly meetings and workshops during the school year 30 hours.

This project will create a four pronged approach to education and support for students and families faced with addiction and recovery. Addiction is a family disease. In order to fully educate and support the adolescent, we know that families must be involved, supported and educated on the specifics of adolescent addiction.

We plan to support a partnership initiative of the Clayton State University Primary Health Clinic which is designed to increase access to care for the underserved and to increase the amount of primary care providers in Clayton County.

Advance African Development intends to offer a one-day symposium to explore the benefits of using National Library of Medicine NLM resources in K-12 school settings. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region NNLM MAR has been funding promising K-12 health literacy programs. The proposed symposium is a follow-up intended to 1. Establish a learning collaborative made up of targeted key stakeholder; 2. Share, learn, and build on existing strategies that have been successfully used to integrate health literacy concepts into the K-12 school curricula; 3.

The University of Delaware, Disaster Research Center in partnership with the Delaware Division of Libraries, Delaware Medical Corps, Delaware Division of Health, University of Delaware Health Sciences Library and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region will plan a state-wide event to strengthen the involvement of libraries in assisting with health and disaster information needs before, during and after an emergency. This project will promote partnership building and identify action steps to link libraries and members of the emergency planning community.

The GMR Outreach Award allows the Outreach Librarian of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library to attend multiple events as an exhibitor, pays for a small portion of The Outreach Librarian's salary, and pays for minimal related administrative costs. Events are hosted by Outreach Librarian and other volunteers from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. A booth and table are rented. Space is hosted with friendly faces, a MacBook Air & Wifi for live demonstrations of NLM databases, handouts and customized posters. Classes are taught by the Outreach Librarian and other volunteers.

Exhibit and outreach at the Delivering the Vision of Comprehensive Health Services in 95 Iowa Annual meeting of Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland sponsored by the UIowa Health Sciences Policy Council and the annual meeting of the Iowa 95 Health Association

Dahlgren Memorial Library DML at Georgetown University Medical Center GUMC plans to seek funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region NNLM SEA for a project designed to deploy and assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by 5 residents in the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital MGUH in Washington, DC. When the iPad mini devices were released by Apple, Inc.

The goal of this proposed project is to promote evidence-based practice in healtcare management by providing an educational program on evidence-based management {EBMgt for health administrators in the Pacific Northwest Region. The objectives of the education program are 1 to increase health administrator knowledge in EBMgt principles and processes in healthcare management; 2 to increase health administrator skills in information searching and access; and 3 to gain health administrator confidence in the implementation of EBMgt in decision-making within their healthcare organizations.

Dahlgren Memorial Library DML at Georgetown University Medical Center GUMC plans to seek funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region NNLM SEA for a project designed to deploy and assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by 5 residents in the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital MGUH in Washington, DC. When the iPad mini devices were released by Apple, Inc.

Federal mandates as well as standards outlined by the Joint Commission regarding the provision of adequate care to Limited English Proficiency LEP patients require that University of Virginia UVA clinicians be informed about information resources that will be helpful to this population. MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus in Spanish, and the website, Health Information in Multiple Languages, can provide patients and clinicians access to quality online health information. Hospital interpreters are also essential to the provision of quality care to LEP patients.

The purpose of this project is to advance health literacy capacity and to improve clinical information discovery skills of health professionals in Eastern Washington. The targeted health professionals work in clinics, in long- term care facilities, and in schools in Eastern Washington.

An important aim of the NN/LM PNR application for the 2016-2021 is to support collaborations in the Pacific Northwest Region that foster effective use of current, high quality, information and decision support resources by health professionals, by students in the health professions, and by patients in order to treat the commonly encountered medical conditions in 95 and underserved populations in Oregon.

Health Literacy and 89: An Age Friendly Approach to Health Information: This half day symposium will help health and social service professionals learn more about the impact health literacy has on health outcomes for 89; and provide training in health literacy best practices for finding, creating and evaluating health information materials for people age 60 and older.

The Chelan-Douglas Health District website improvement project is aimed at improving the ability of English and Spanish speaking community members and healthcare professionals in Chelan and Douglas counties, to find and use essential health information online. There is a strong need in our health jurisdiction to improve our web presence and the information that is offered to our residents via our website. Included in the new web design will be a new user-friendly design, search function, mobile site, and provide necessary content in Spanish.

The primary goal of this Alaska Medical Library project is to improve the quality of life and health for citizens of Alaska by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce, especially in 95 areas, over a five-year period from May 2016 through April 2021. Additionally, AML hopes to expand outreach to include public schools and public libraries to teach and promote health literacy in the communities we visit.

A $15,000 National Network of Libraries of Medicine grant will allow the Pennsylvania Behavioral Health and Aging Coalition to research, coordinate, develop, and implement the Pennsylvania's Older Adult Medical Resource Information Initiative through the course of the eight month funding period.