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Onsite & Remote User Authentication
Remote access to online resources is limited to authorized library users due to licensing restrictions. Remote access is managed by the librarian via login through OCLC EZ Proxy. Onsite access is available to all QHS users. For questions, or if you need help with your remote user login credentials, please contact the librarian.

UpToDate Point of care medical resource for physicians, residents, nurses, and allied health professionals.
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UpToDate is available onsite and remotely. Instructions are located on the "Database Tutorials" tab.
AccessMedicine AccessMedicine is an online resource collection from McGraw-Hill Medical anchored by over 85 core textbooks in medicine and the basic sciences. Additional features include a wealth of content in the form of thousands of images, illustrations, self-assessment tools, case files, point of care tools, and videos.
Business Source Complete Articles from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications, as well as current company, industry and region reports.
CINAHL CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.
Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
DynaMedex DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson is an all-in-one solution that provides evidence-based insights designed to accelerate clinical decisions and improve efficiency at the point of care.
EbscoHost Includes links to access Cinahl, Business Source Complete and other Ebsco platform resources.
ECRI ECRI Institute is an independent nonprofit organization authority on the medical practices and products that provide the safest, most cost-effective care.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Textbook of internal medicine. 20th edition
LearningExpress Library Available through EbscoHost platform. LearningExpress Library is designed to help students and professionals at all levels of learning achieve their educational and career-related goals.
Lippincott Procedures Lippincott Procedures is your online source for instant, evidence-based procedure guidance at the point of care. With over 1,700 procedures and skills from a wide variety of nursing specialties including allied health, it combines the most trusted clinical content with powerful online workflow functionality that will enable your clinical staff to save time, standardize care and deliver improved patient outcomes.
Ovid Medline MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier database that contains bibliographic ciations and author astracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and abroad. Medicine, nursing, dentristry, veterinary medicine, allied health and pre-clinical sciences are some of the main concentrations of sources contained within MEDLINE. Ovid MEDLINE is one of two primary ways to access MEDLINE (the other being PubMed). Ovid MEDLINE utilizes the NLM's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, otherwise known as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH terms are used because they provide a consistent manner of retrieving information despite possible variations in naming. Users have control over which subject headings are used, and search strategies may be saved for future use.
Ovid Resources Ovid Resources includes hundreds of e-books and journals available through this complete listing. Search journals and e-books in their A-Z lists across dozens of specialties including medicine, nursing & health, behavioural sciences, basic sciences and more.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health ProQuest’s Nursing & Allied Health Premium package supports the teaching, learning, and research needs of nursing and allied health students and educators with 700+ peer- reviewed full text scholarly and scientific journals, 350+ full-length clinical skills videos that enable students to watch and learn best practice techniques, and more.
Psychiatry Online Authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public.
PubMed PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Stedman's Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
TDS Health/STAT!Ref STAT!Ref is an intuitive, full-text medical library that enables users to cross search evidence-based, authoritative references in seconds.

Quick Links to ONSITE Only eResources

Onsite User Authentication
Onsite-only access is available to all QHS users for the following resources. For questions, please contact the librarian.

SafeDose Pro (f.k.a. eBroselow) (ONSITE ACCESS ONLY) SafeDose® quickly provides you with the critical 4D’s – all the information you need to ensure safe and proper medication administration.
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eBroslow is available for onsite access only.

NEW: Upcoming Library Info Sessions

As a QMC staff or resident, you're invited to an informal webinar with Queen's medical librarian! We'll first give you a broad overview of the library, highlight key resources and databases, and then open it up for a Q&A. So bring your burning library questions! Webinars are open invitation and are held quarterly. Stop by for ten minutes, or stay the whole time. Come to one session or join us for all of them. Just click the appropriate link below when the time comes. All QMC folks are welcome!

If you have any library-related questions in the meantime, please email us at library@queens.org.

Opioid Therapy and Pain Management CME

Are you registered with the DEA to treat and manage patients with opioid or other substance abuse disorders?

The deadline to satisfy the recently added DEA requirement to renew your license was June 2023. The American Medical Association (AMA) just released a new course on their EdHub platform to support you in completing this requirement. "Opioid Therapy and Pain Management CME" is an 8 hour course you can work through it at your own pace.

Opioid Therapy & Pain Management CME course
A self-paced course that earns you CME and satisfies the new DEA licesning requirement.
AMA EdHub
AMA's courses, including the new opioid course are on their learning platform.
AMA launches resource to help physicians meet DEA training requirement
Brief press release.

What Are You Looking For?

Need help with searching library resources?
The Librarian is happy to conduct a literature search for you (contact the librarian at library@queens.org), but if you're interested in doing it yourself, here are some database tutorials to get you started.
Want top nursing resources in one place?
Check out the Nursing tab, intended to be a main access point just for nurses. Do you have suggestions for this tab? The librarian is all ears!
Looking for Clinical Practice Guidelines?
They're listed here by specialty.
Do you have a specific journal in mind to browse?
This page lists Hawaii Medical Library journals A to Z.

Medical News Headlines

Medical Librarian

Farris Sanders

Email Me

Contact:

library@queens.org
(219) 922-4868, ext. 1005

Emails are generally answered within 1- 2 business days

I'd be happy to help you with:
* getting a library account set up, forgotten passwords, etc.
* questions about the collection and potential acquisitions
* other library-related requests or questions

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