Spotlight on Resources: New eBooks!

Access these titles and more via our Discovery site.

ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy! 4th Edition (2023)

The 4th Edition of ACLS Review Made Incredibly Easy! is filled with simple definitions and clear, step-by-step instructions on the newest algorithms. It provides the confidence to pass the ACLS certification exam and equips you with the necessary knowledge and skills for advanced cardiac life support.

Anatomy & Physiology Made Incredibly Easy! 6th Edition (2023)

Don't worry about anatomy and physiology—understanding basic terms and concepts is simple with the 6th Edition of Anatomy and Physiology Made Incredibly Easy. This engaging, colorful, and clearly written guide makes fundamental anatomy and physiology concepts easy to grasp, offering enjoyable and friendly guidance to support your success throughout your nursing career. Packed with vibrant illustrations and labeled diagrams, this quick-reference text shows how every major body structure interacts with the body's systems and covers topics like genetics, nutrition, and reproduction. Whether you're a nursing student preparing for the NCLEX®, a practicing nurse seeking quick answers, or a healthcare or fitness professional needing a refresher, this easy-to-read, up-to-date edition makes essential information more accessible than ever.

Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy! 8th Edition (2024)

The 8th Edition of Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy® is your go-to quick-reference guide for mastering fluids and electrolytes throughout your nursing career—whether in class, on the unit, preparing for the NCLEX®, or needing a refresher. This invaluable resource, written in the engaging Incredibly Easy® style, makes essential information both approachable and entertaining, while clarifying real-world applications. Step-by-step instructions build your confidence in balancing fluids and electrolytes, understanding fluid imbalances and related disorders, treating imbalances, and more. Helpful tips reinforce key concepts, provide important care reminders, and enhance your problem-solving and patient teaching skills. This thoroughly updated 8th Edition includes the latest insights and practices to ensure your success in today's nursing practice and beyond.

Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy! 4th Edition (2024)

Wound Care Made Incredibly Easy, 4th Edition is packed with real-life, full-color images and offers a lighthearted approach to complex concepts, making it easier to master essential wound care skills and treatments. This highly visual text helps you excel both in the classroom and on the unit, providing up-to-date insights, clear and concise explanations, and plenty of vibrant images.

Spotlight on a CiAP Resource

 Clinical Equipment User Manual Library

Having problems with a Medical Device? This handy tool is available via CiAP and houses the user manuals for a wide range of Clinical Equipment.

To access: go to CiAP and click on tools.  

The Clinical Equipment User Manual Library is at the top of the middle column.

Then search for the device you are interested in.

And download the guide!

 Welcome to our New Graduate Nurses!

The first cohort of New Grads have started at MNCLHD for 2025.  Below are some resources that interest them as they adjust to their new role.

 

From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinic Nursing Practice / Patricia Benner

Benner’s seminal text remains pertinent to all nurses, especially those beginning their practice as it highlights how a newcomer to the profession or specialty develops their skills, knowledge and clinical judgement to eventually become an expert.

 

How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse / Kelli S. Dunham & Staci J. Smith

Guides the reader from graduation to their initial nursing position and onward to a thriving, rewarding nursing career. It acts as both a mentor and a cheerleader, offering guidance and support to new nurses throughout their journey from student to assured professional.

 

Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don’t / Sukey & Elizabeth Novogratz

This engaging and informative meditation guidebook features playful illustrations and is designed for ease of use. It includes an eight-week plan tailored for busy beginners, helping even the most hectic schedules integrate meditation and reap its numerous physical and emotional rewards.

 

The Library!

Drop in or visit our website to discover what we have to offer.  Borrow one of the above books or another text relevant to the specialty you are working in.

In the literature - Workplace Violence and Job Stress

Workplace Violence and Job Stress

The article, titled "The effects of workplace violence on the job stress of health care workers: buffering effects of wellbeing HRM practices," explores how workplace violence impacts job stress among healthcare workers and how wellbeing-oriented human resource management (HRM) practices can help mitigate these effects. The study, grounded in the conservation of resources theory, examines data from healthcare workers in Australia and China ₁. It finds that wellbeing HRM practices can moderate the relationship between workplace violence and job stress, ultimately improving the quality of care provided by healthcare workers ₁.

To support stressed healthcare workers, there are several free government resources available:

1.       Patricia Pariona-Cabrera, Timothy Bartram, Jillian Cavanagh, Beni Halvorsen, Bo Shao & Feifei Yang (2024) The effects of workplace violence on the job stress of health care workers: buffering effects of wellbeing HRM practices, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 35:9, 1654-1680, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2023.2237876

2.      Head to Health: Provides a Stress Management Program based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles, available online for free.

3.      icare: Offers stress management strategies specifically for healthcare workers, including tips on self-care, communication, and support from colleagues and leaders.

4. Wellbeing and Staff Support offers links to a range of programs to support the health and wellbeing of NSW Health staff in the Mid North Coast Local Health District.

These resources can help healthcare workers manage stress and improve their mental wellbeing.

In addition District Library services has these books and more that you can read to inspire your self care journey.

Mindful self-compassion for burnout : tools to help you heal and recharge when you're wrung out by stress / Kristin Neff, PhD, Christopher Germer, PhD.

Every doctor : healthier doctors = healthier patients / Leanne Rowe, Michael Kidd, Vihangi Abeygunawardana.

Breath : the new science of a lost art / James Nestor.

Do less be more : ban busy and make space for what matters / Martina Sheehan & Susan Pearse.

The article referenced is available through Open Access online. MNCLHD staff can contact the library if they have any problems downloading the full article or would like to borrow any of the above books.