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Knowledge Market
The Knowledge Market is located in the Steelcase Library (downtown) and the Mary Idema Pew Library (Allendale).
- Research Consultants can help develop research questions, strategies, and focus for completing assignments.
- Writing Consultants can assist with brainstorming, organizing content, integrating research, polishing drafts, and correctly documenting sources.
- Speech Consultants can help with topic selection, organization, supporting materials, and delivery.
- Data Inquiry Lab can help with data management, analysis, or visualization.
For more information and current hours: Knowledge Market.
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Resource MarketYou can get "do-it-yourself" online guides in the Resource Market.
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Learn the TermsSome of the most commonly terms used by professors and librarians in research assignments and library instruction are the least understood by students. To fully make use of library resources and become a better student, learn the terms of information literacy.
Useful Resources
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Citing SourcesStyle guides and examples
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Government ResourcesGreat for statistical information.
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PlagiarismHow to avoid plagiarism.
Search The Library
Library Search searches many of the library's resources at the same time. You get scholarly journal articles, books, and magazine and newspaper articles all in one place. The column on the left of the results page offers many options for narrowing your results. If you are not finding what you want with Library Search, try one of the databases listed in the box above.
Welcome!
Welcome to your Library Guide for AHS 495 - Issues in Health Professions - Capstone/ SWS
We have set-up this guide to help you find information needed to complete your course. If you have questions regarding specific information and resources please contact the librarians listed to the right of this box. For course and assignment clarification please contact Julia VanderMolen, Ph. D, vandjul1@gvsu.edu
Weekly Articles
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Sharing user names is a HIPPA security violationThe article reports on the warnings given by Marion Jenkins, co-founder of QSE Technologies Inc., to health care workers and providers in the U.S. to abide the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security rule in user names sharing.
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The Impact of Service-Learning on Health Education Students' Cultural CompetenceDevelopment of cultural competence in future health educators is often mentioned as a goal of health education preparation programs; however research demonstrating evidence-based methods for development of cultural competence is limited. (USE PROQUEST LINK)
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Update on validity of required competencies for worksite health professionalsTo improve global health, the workforce capacity of health promotion professionals must be strengthened through the provision of competencies necessary to deliver effective programs. Here, Becker et al provide an updated analysis of the validity of the worksite health promotion (WHP) professional competencies developed in 2000 by the Association for Worksite Health Promotion (AWHP).
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Health Resources in the Information AgePlease us Document delivery.
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ICD-10-CM/PCS Isn't Over 'Til It's OverThe article discusses the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-CM/PCS), an American system of medical classification used for procedural coding. It mentions the delay of the ICD-10 announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2012 and the confidence of the staff of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) of fulfilling it
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Love It or Hate It, Obamacare Redistributes Americans' WealthThe underpinnings of Obamacare could crumble in a number of ways: if young people fail to sign up for insurance in the droves needed to make the numbers work (and, given the meager penalty for failing to do so, that remains a definite possibility); or if the so-called Cadillac tax on high-dollar health plans scheduled for 2018 never happens (labor unions, among other interests, hate it); or if Congress, at the behest of the industry, follows through on its threat to eliminate the tax on medical devices; or if the long-promised savings in Medicare fail to come to fruition; or if, down the road, a cash-strapped federal government abandons its Medicaid commitments to states.
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Medicare Fraud and Abuse IssuesNurse practitioners (NPs) as health care providers are held to the same standards of practice for Medicare patients as any other providers. Participation in this federal health care program means individual NPs are as at risk of being charged with Medicare fraud or abuse as anyone else who violates the rules. Thus, they must know the rules for which they will be held accountable. [Copyright Elsevier B.V.]
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Marketing your skills outside the hospital wallsAs patient care shifts from acute care to outpatient and community home health care, nurses need to repackage their skills. A personal skill assessment on an ongoing basis helps nurses plan for the future.
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College Students are Health Care's Invisible MinorityIn the legislative health care reform bills, there is little language addressing college students specifically, but the Baucus bill does include a controversial "young invinability" policy, requiring Americans 25 and younger to purchase "catastrophic" insurance in addition to comprehensive insurance. Since young adults, ages 19 to 29, represent one of the largest uninsured groups, bringing them into the coverage risk pool could spread out costs to subsidize older Americans.
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The development of an osteoporosis prevention education intervention: its effectiveness, conclusions, and recommendationsOsteoporosis prevention education interventions have been found to be ineffective. Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of a developed intervention based on the health belief model, which emphasized its visible severity and proximal time of onset. Method: A sample of 109 college women were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group to receive an osteoporosis prevention education intervention or stress management intervention, respectively. After pretest, interventions were administered, followed by posttest two weeks later.
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