Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, joins Nancy Houlihan, MA, RN, AOCN®, ONS president, to discuss PubMed, NLM’s free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics, and NLM’s strategic plan for leveraging the library’s resources to accelerate data-driven health care.  

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod 

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Episode Notes 

Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.

• ONS Voice article: Nurse Takes Helm at NIH National Library of Medicine 

• ONS Voice article: Nurses Are Advancing Research in Data-Powered Science 

• Clinicaltrials.gov 

• LitCovid, NLM’s curated literature hub on the COVID-19 coronavirus 

• MedlinePlus (for providers)  

• MedlinePlus Connect (for patients and caregivers) 

• Patricia Brennan’s blog, NLM Musings From the Mezzanine 

• PubMed database 

• PubMed New and Noteworthy overviews of the improvements to the new PubMed 

• PubMed user guide 

• PubMed and Medline resources guide