1. Librarians: Poised and Ready for EBP
Janene Batten
Librarian to Yale School of Nursing

2. What do I know? librarian to nurses
clinical librarian bed trauma 1 hospital
teach ebp process to librarians
currently librarian to nurses – academic (masters and doctoral) and hospital
broke my teeth as a medical librarian as a clinical librarian in a 327-bed trauma 1 hospital serving residents and physicians mainly with a teensy bit of nursing (and undergrad nursing school) thrown in for variation and good measure
teach ebp process to librarians in order to help them know how they can assist in the process

3. What do we know? … to paraphrase busy .. busy … busy
definitions similar – process same
want it where it’s needed
don’t know details of how to get it (and some really don’t want to know)
busy .. busy … busy- so we see – research proves
definitions similar – process same
personal ebp same – nurses have developed organizational models for practice change
want it where it’s needed – at the bedside, closer to the emr (if it exists) the better
don’t know details of how to get it (and really don’t want to know) – admission today that clinicians value that Librarians are the expert finders of the answers. Some will admit this, others won’t. Silly surgeons!

4. Where to find it? all the usual places non research sources
non research sources –generated by institution -- e.g
quality improvement and risk data
infection control data
Cost effectiveness analyses
retrospective or concurrent chart reviews
standards – international, national, local
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5. Invite them in and LOVE them being there
Market
Embrace constituents
Raise awareness of your value
Focus marketing on profession / specialty
Heighten visibility
face-to-face relationship building
virtually
keep the fresh ideas flowing
Teach
Embed
Teach in the curriculum
Invite them in and LOVE them being there
Embrace your constituents – some may be obnoxious and demanding, they may be timid and unknowing – but they are people too
BE AVAILABLE
Raise awareness of your value – never never never underestimate
promote in Seminars, physicians’ lounge, Grand Rounds
put it terms of why it’s important to THEM
focus marketing on profession / specialty
newsletter just for nurses
“personal” to just one department
what’s new this month
Heighten visibility
get OUT of the Library – go where the people are -- “Management by walking around”
virtually
don’t have to make people come to your web site
be one of the links off the home page
have a shortcut on the desk top
make as much as you can virtual
keep the fresh ideas flowing – PUSH out information TOC / fantastic articles – only send RELEVANT s
FaceBook page
Teach on the unit
Nurses and others learn by doing
Embed
be at morning report
be where the anesthesiologists are – they certainly cannot be in the Library
Teach in the curriculum
residency program – nursing AND medicine
school of nursing
hospital EBP classes

6. Visibility & facilitation are key
Collaborate
Face-to-face relationship building
Committee participation
Be where the patients are
Participate in orientations
Work with Top Dogs
Get library services and librarians written into grants
Continue to raise awareness of your value
Visibility & facilitation are key
Face-to-face relationship building – be in their face
Committee participation
Write library services and librarians into grants
Be where the patients are
Participate in orientations – new nurses, student, new faculty
Work with Top Dogs – nurse unit educators – chief residents
Continue to raise awareness of your value

7. You are the Expert Review library resources and buy buy buy
Searching – OMG – nobody does it like you!
Learn the EBP steps – even the ones you don’t want to
Raise awareness of your value – don’t ever get bored with this
Pro-activity and delivery are key
Review library resources available for nurses and physicians
buy buy buy
and find the free ones too
And don’t forget mobile devices
Searching
raise awarness
Seminars, physicians’ lounge, Grand Rounds
Learn the EBP steps – even the ones you don’t want to
or co-teach them with an “expert”
Pro-activity and facilitation are key

8. QUESTIONS

9. Librarians: Poised and Ready for EBP