Book Review

18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
By Peter Bregman

Many of us can identify with the stories related to time management, procrastination, and motivation that Peter Bregman discusses in his book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done. Bregman encourages readers to “focus your year on the five areas that will make the most difference in your life.” He provides a practical approach to being successful in your work and/or personal life by taking small bits of time out of your day to check in with yourself to make sure 95% of your actions are in your areas of focus. We often try to get it all done when in reality, it is impossible to get it all done. One particular thought stands out for me:

“The secret to surviving a buffet is to eat fewer things. And the secret to thriving in your life is the same: Do fewer things.”

The author challenges the reader “to choose the one thing you’ve read from this book that will make the most difference in your life and do it” and then see what happens. 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done is available from the Ministry Health Science Library. Contact Deb Knippel if you would like to check out this book from the library.

Oral Health for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women

The MCH Library and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center at Georgetown University have developed a new edition of the knowledge path, Oral Health for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women. This knowledge path directs readers to a selection of current, high-quality resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at improving access to and quality of oral health care. The knowledge path can be used by health professionals, program administrators, and policymakers to learn more about oral health, for program development, and to locate training resources and information to answer specific questions. The knowledge path also links to separate resource briefs for families and for schools and to briefs on topics such as the dental home, dental sealants, and oral health for children and adolescents with special health care needs. View the knowledge path online at http://www.mchoralhealth.org/knwpathoralhealth.html.


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Electronic Table of Contents Service

Stay up-to-date with your favorite medical, nursing, and allied health literature by subscribing to Ministry Health Science Library Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) service. You may choose selected journals and the library will email the table of contents to you each time a new issue of your selected journal is released. From this email, you will be able to access the full text of the articles you would like to read.

The ETOC service is a great way to stay current without having to search through the literature. You may select journals titles by:

• Reviewing the Top Ten List of journals on our website,
• Searching for specific titles via our online database, or
• Reviewing this extensive list of selected titles.

Send your list of selected titles to Deb.Knippel@ministryhealth.org. and you will be added to the ETOC distribution list for your selected titles. You will need to register individually for New England Journal of Medicine table of contents at this link https://www.nejm.org/nejm-alerts.

For questions about the ETOC service or obtaining library resources please contact Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091, 65091 or Deb.Knippel@ministryhealth.org.


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Conference Speakers’ Books are Available in the Library

This year’s clinical conference, “A Culture of Excellence: Inspired Care,” features Liz Jazwiec, RN, and Rich Bluni, RN. Both are nationally recognized speakers and authors of bestselling books that talk about their experiences in health care. These books are now available in the Ministry Health Care Health Science Library.

Eat That Cookie! Make Workplace Positivity Pay…For Individuals, Teams and Organizations, by Liz Jazwiec, offers strategies to create a positive workplace and discusses how these strategies can translate into improved patient care and employee satisfaction. Eat THAT Cookie! was chosen as a winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in the leadership and management category.

Inspired Nurse, by Rich Bluni, RN, will help readers reconnect to the inspired feeling that brought them to nursing in the first place. The strategies outlined in this book will help readers learn how to keep going when life and work becomes difficult.

To check out either of these books, contact Deb Knippel by phone at 65091 or 715-346-5091 or email at Deb.Knippel@ministryhealth.org.

Hospice Collection Now Available

A new collection of books on end-of-life issues, death, and grief is now available at your Ministry Health Care Library. The books are appropriate for staff, patients, and family members, including children. Sample books include:
• Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond: A practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life by Jane Brody
• Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communication of the Dying by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst; a children’s’ story that addresses being separated from loved ones
Additionally we have a subscription to Spirituality & Health: The Soul/Body Connection. This is a bi-monthly magazine that addresses issues related to spirituality and health.

The collection is located in the Health Science Library at 2501 Main in Stevens Point. To obtain a complete listing of available books or to check out a book, contact Deb Knippel by phone at 65091 or 715-346-5091 or email at Deb.Knippel@ministryhealth.org.

New Book in the Library: The Relativity Diet: A Diet Theory of Everything

Written by Surgeon Shaun J. Melarvie, MD, on staff at Door County Memorial Hospital

"The Relativity Diet: A Diet Theory of Everything" is in its second printing and has been well-received by its readership since publication in January of this year. The author, Dr. Shaun Melarvie, has been pleased by the feedback he has received, with the consensus being that the book is fun to read and about as page-turning as a "diet book" could be. The truth is that the book isn't written like a conventional diet book. It is more like a philosophy of food and energy, based on science and personal experience, which is written in a conversational narrative that carries the

reader along from the beginning to the end. One reader commented, "The author uses a logical, step by step, scientific approach to a healthy lifestyle, debunking myths and pseudo-science. From the smallest detail, it reveals the mysterious world of quantum physics, re-caps chemistry, and eventually achieves Nirvana." Others have described the book as; "very well written", "a beautiful book" and "I found myself laughing out loud."

You can learn more at the Relativity Blog at www.relativityblog.com or contact a Ministry Librarian to borrow the book.

New edition of Cleveland Clinic: Current Clinical Medicine

The 2nd edition of Cleveland Clinic: Current Clinical Medicine is now available on MD Consult.

Current Clinical Medicine, written by the world famous Cleveland Clinic, is an internal medicine reference that gives you authoritative and actionable information wherever you are, whenever you need it. This new edition includes more than 40 updated chapters, 13 new chapters, and 30% new illustrations, ensuring that you’ll have access to the most up-to-date guidance.

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