E-mail this pageNursing, Food & Nutrition Collections Policies
Clientele:
The Nursing, Food & Nutrition collection serves the needs of community users, faculty in support of instruction, and undergraduates pursing a Bachelor of Science with a major in Nursing or in Food & Nutrition.
The Nursing Program is accredited by the National League for Nursing, and the Food & Nutrition Program is approved by the American Dietetics Association. Nursing program enrollment stands at 306 FTE's, with a recent increase in students completing coursework in the RN option, both on-campus and through distance-learning courses.
Enrollment in distance-learning (interactive compressed video and E-mail formats) has increased significantly from 69 part-time students in 1994 to 245 part-time students in 1998. Enrollment in the Food & Nutrition Program stands at 55 FTE. There are about 11faculty members directly involved in teaching Nursing, and about 2 in Food & Nutrition.
The following areas are also related to the collection:
- Chemistry,
- Biology,
- Anatomy,
- Anthropology,
- Sociology,
- Psychology,
- Mathematics.
Existing Collections:
Plattsburgh's Nursing, Food & Nutrition collection includes mainly current, English language materials. The geographical focus is on the U.S., with a minor focus on global disease epidemiology, global health systems, and Canadian nursing.
Strengths include health promotion, community health nursing, geriatrics, long-term care, legal aspects of nursing, patient education, nursing/medical ethics, psychological aspects of nursing, nutritional diseases, auto-immune diseases, trauma nursing, transcultural nursing, administration and managed care, nursing history, nursing informatics, and nursing research.
U.S. government documents and journal holdings of 80 nursing journals and 10 nutrition journals augment the monograph collection. Reference databases provide access to the nursing, allied health and medical journals. We offer the Medline database, the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) and IAC's Health Reference Center (full-text.)
Current Collecting:
We continue to collect in the areas above.
Plans are underway to add to the collection in areas of increasing importance, such as terminal & palliative care, family nursing, nursing diagnosis, OB & BYN, pediatric nursing, perioperative nursing, surgery, transplantation, urologic nursing, public health, gastronomy & cookery, diet & food supply, and food analysis.
Clinical resources, rather than experimental or advanced research, are preferred. Both practical and theoretical resources are collected, as the curriculum demands demonstration and application of nursing and nutrition theory.
Textbooks are purchased as essential in the field of nursing. We do not collect patient care handbooks, or materials for advanced practitioners or researchers.
Consumer health resources for the reference or general collections are selected only when useful to nursing or nutrition students in understanding a health issue or to be used in the preparation of patient education materials.
We plan to collect resources with more global perspectives on world-wide health care delivery, disease epidemiology, and transcultural issues. Other areas of increasing interest include care and case management, information technology applications in health care and nutrition, community and home health nursing, geriatric care, and promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Electronic resources are increasingly important to students in nursing and nutrition. Distance-learning students, part-time adult students, and students in clinical practicum settings require access to resources but do not have good access to the physical library.
In addition to access to research databases, access to the World Wide Web will be important. The liaison librarian identifies and lists web resources on the library's FLIRT pages for Nursing and for Food and Nutrition. Electronic medical resources such as the Merck Manual are also listed and accessible from the library's homepage.
Subjects Covered:
- LC classes R and TX, some QP's
Publisher Information:
Noted publishers include:
- Saunders,
- Mosby,
- Aspen,
- Springer,
- Lippincott,
- Addison-Wesley,
- Apleton & Lange,
- National League for Nursing,
- Springhouse,
- Delmar,
- American Nurse's Association,
- American Dietetic Assocation.
Formats:
Materials in all formats except microform are collected. Cloth is preferred over paper.
Notes:
Special Collections maintains local historical manuscripts including family physicians' notes, older (1930s) nursing textbooks, older home recipes for foods and medicines, and 1800s New York State Board of Health Reports.
Arrangements with Clinton Community College, CVPH and the Plattsburgh Public Library allow access to advanced materials and consumer health resources.
The North Country Regional Library Council (NC3Rs) manages the NYS Medical Interlibrary Loan Subsidy program, which provided over $3,000 in 97/98 to help fund ILL for nursing and allied health requests. CCD funds have been allocated, most recently in 1996/97.