Safety Practices for LAcs: The Autumn 2022 Presentations from the HHP's Safety Practices Workgroup (Sept, Oct, Nov.)

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Safety Practices for LAcs, a new set of resources from the HHP

Updates on this past year’s progress with the HHP’s Safety in Practice Workgroup

For the latest information on this workgroup and its work, from presentations to publications, go to these pages on the HHP's website:

Safety Practices for LAcs, an article getting updated with event info Sept - Nov 2022.

September public presentation, the event page.

October public presentation at the IM4US 2022 conference, "Speaking the Language of Safety in HROs for LAcs." The presentation landing page.

November 12th, 2022, "Introduction to Safety Practices for LAcs in Healthcare System Practice. For Acupuncturist clinicians, safety leads, and program managers." public presentation, the event page.

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Leadership: Recommended Reading and Resources

keywords: leadership in integrative health, program leads, program managers, inspiration for the workplace

Leadership Resources at the Hospital Handbook Project

Recommended Reading and More

HHP Leaders Group & Resource

• I have been developing a Leaders Group & Resource for program leads and managers over the past couple of years for the Hospital Handbook Project. If you are interested in this, you can contact me via the website with a note about your interest, including why you are interested.

The "Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series"

• This didn't get off the ground again in 2020. So, right now, the plan is to roll the 2020 sessions into the 2021 series. You can sign up now to access the 2020 resources and support the ability to have sessions in 2021. 

The "Basics of Being an Employee in a Healthcare System: Focus on Performance Management"

• A wisdom-share series with colleague Sandro Abanto, MBA, in a video interview format. Read more about it in this article.

Lunchtime Listen Recommendations

• A curated resource of audio or audiovisual resources to fit a lunchbreak or so.

HHP Leadership & Workplace Video Series

• Started this series on the public Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/HospitalHandbook/891703201278699/ 

video series on the public Facebook page

Recommended Reading: Blog articles and more

• Reflecting on Leadership, a book and audiobook reading recommendation list
• Leadership and Workplace Mondays, a seasonal or monthly review of the weekly theme on the public Facebook page. These are compilations of resources on the topics of leadership & workplace, with a focus on the professional healthcare employee.
• Leadership and Workplace Mondays, the Autumn 2019 summary
• August Leadership and Workplace Mondays Roundup, 2019
• April 2019 Leadership and Workplace summary
• March 2019 Leadership and Workplace summary
• February 2019 Leadership and Workplace roundup
• January 2019 Leadership and Workplace summary: connect to your mentors and learn about your organization's mentoring program
• December 2018 Leadership and Workplace roundup
• November 2018 Leadership and Workplace summary
• "A leader that practices mindfulness and self-awareness is a positive force in his/her organization," a Mindful.org recommended read
• "Making Space for Innovation: seeing failure as constructive towards growth."
• National Academy of Medicine's Clinician Well-being Series, an audiovisual resource
• Research Literacy: Practical Applications for The Hospital-based Practitioner

The Hospital Handbook Project Learning Opportunities Directory

• Learn more about this resource at this post.  

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Find Your Trail Guides: The Directory of Hospital-based Learning Opportunities for Acupuncturists

This will also be published on the website blog--just getting through some tech learning curve with the website blog.  :)

Last updated:  09.25.2019

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

The Hospital-practice Handbook Project’s Directory of Hospital-based Learning Opportunities for Acupuncturists

Full explanation at this blogpost

Go to this Link to add your resource to the directory

Background and Introduction

This directory came out of feedback from the “How do I get my Foot in the Door of Hospital Practice” blogpost series that posted spring and summer 2018. The 3 main stepping stones in that series are: nonclinical volunteer work, shadowing, and cultivating mentor-relationships. The series was re-written into a booklet, Get Your Foot in the Door: First Steps for the Acupuncturist or Integrative Health Student Interested in Hospital-Based Practice; go to this page to order it and here to order the companion workbook that walks you through the exercises laid out in the booklet.

If you are a new hospital employee, I recommend you sign up for the upcoming (summer or fall 2019) audiovisual resource "Basics of Being An Employee in a Healthcare System".

Learn more about what qualifies as an entry for the directory in this post. Go to this Link to add your resource to the directory.

Facility or Program	Location	What is available?	Contact Information	Category
Acupuncture Program at Advocate Aurora Health System Learn more about the program in this post.	Greater Milwaukee area, Wisconsin	Shadowing opportunities	Point of contact:  Dr. John Burns John.burns@aurora.org	Shadow
University Hospitals, Connor Integrative Health Program Program website info here.	Cleveland, Ohio	Virtual mentorship	Christine Kaiser Christine.kaiser @UHhospitals.org	Mentorship
Evidence-based Acupuncture More information at this webpage	Online	Volunteer work	Mel Hopper Koppleman	Volunteer, research literacy, biomedical communication

Program	Location	What is available?	Contact information	category
Claudia Citkovitz’s program at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn	Brooklyn, NY	Continuing education courses on inpatient care Clinical intensives (3-4 days) in stroke/rehab, labor & delivery, more Clinical observation, offered weekly Long-term mentorship opportunities for inpatient work	Claudia Citkovitz Studyingpractice@gmail.com	CEU, online, onsite, inpatient, shadow/clinic observation, mentoring,

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Resource: Project ECHO

keywords: resources, primary care, specialty care, hospital-based practice sharing wisdom with rural practice providers, connecting teaching hospitals to small practices and solo practices

https://echo.unm.edu

Project ECHO®, I love the idea behind it, how it goes beyond the basic telehealth consult, and enjoyed my time participating in it.

ECHO® = extended community healthcare option, created by the University of New Mexico.

I mentioned Project ECHO® in the resource section of the May post on Shadow Physicians.

When I participated as part of a "hub", I felt the innovators of Project ECHO® truly believed in the value each discipline in the allied health provider fields brought to the table as important and essential, not auxillary, pieces to the whole-person health equation for the patient and the primary care provider.

If you work in primary care, I highly recommend connecting to an ECHO®.
If you work at a larger health center and could be a "hub", I highly recommend you connect to an ECHO®.  The program benefits the hub and the spokes.


FAQ sheet for Healthcare Admin about ECHO® from benefits to challenges.

ECHO® videos
What is ECHO? video, 1 minute, 20 seconds:

An October 2014 talk by COL (retired) Kevin Galloway about the ECHO model I participated in as an LAc in the Madigan Army Interdisciplinary Pain Management Clinic (IPMC):

Example of ECHO® in rheumatology 5 1/2 minutes:

Interested in the Hospital-practice Handbook Project?

• Learn more about the HHP's First Steps resource, including the booklet and workbook, here at the HHP website.
• Take the short course on How to Use a Validated Pain Scale in Your Chart Note, to support the Hospital Practice Handbook Project while gaining a valuable clinical outcomes metric tool for your practice.   

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

My Current Favorite Health-Related Audio or Audio-Visual Resources

Wondering where I come up ideas for the Lunchtime Listens?  Well, they come from a variety of sources that I read or listen to, or newsletters I subscribe to.

For a list of the Lunchtime Listen recommendations to date:  go to the Lunchtime Listen page.

If you are looking for recommendations such as podcasts on health-related topics, these are my current favorites:

ReachMD:   --you can subscribe for free and some shows are designated for continuing education credit

Samueli Institute's On Human Flourishing--this podcast has sunsetted, but the back episodes are full of good interviews

Duke University's Integrative Medicine Leadership Program--they have put out some good webinars on topics that get more in-depth coverage in their curriculum.  Several of these webinars have made it to our Lunchtime Listen list.

Healthy Seminars, founded by Lorne Brown for CEU/PDA courses in the field of functional medicine, integrative medicine, and East Asian Medicine (and the overlap).  Online courses and in-person CEU events and the occasional free webinar. This was formerly called Pro-d Seminars.

TED Radio Hour--they have some episodes that are health-related.  Provides perspective

Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday podcast--the focus is on interviews with people who have written a book and experienced or led a major spiritual or health & spiritual shift.  Only a few are healthcare professionals like Deepak Chopra.  Pick the ones that draw you in.

What are your favorite health-related resources for listening to?  

(podcasts, webinars, audiobooks, etc.)

Please let me know in the comments!

Related Resources

Published articles

Gift Ideas

The Graduate Medical Student, Resident, or new Practitioner

The Integrative Medicine Researcher

The Hospital Sponsor/Hospital Administrator

Leadership

The Philanthropic Movement of Integrative Medicine into Mainstream Medicine
Mindfulness
Reflective Readings
Health and Wellness with Kids

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The Mind of a Leader, a Lunchtime Listen Recommendation

keywords:  leadership skills, skills for successful leadership, build a team and team-cohesiveness, skill-building, team leadership, leadership and mindfulness, leadership and selflessness, leadership and compassion

links updated February 2019

The foundation of leadership is to understand yourself --Rasmus Hougard

This week's Lunchtime Listen recommendation is a keynote address, 

"The Mind of a Leader" by Rasmus Hougard.   

This limited-availability video is an intriguing lead magnet from the Mindful Leadership Summit.

"The Mind of a Leader" keynote presentation reviews, in 52 minutes, the findings published in The Potential Project's new book, The Mind of the Leader:  How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter.

This video is available to view until Thursday, March 29th, 2018.

View today's featured presentation video on the Mindful.org webpage.

"The foundation of leadership is to understand yourself" --minute 6.55

Notes on the Presentation
The Potential Project did a 2-year research project, working with the Harvard Business Review, about leadership. The results are published in the book, Mind of the Leader, which was released in March 2018.

Presentation Overview
The presentation will be a "crash course" in
(1) mindfulness
(2) selflessness, and
(3) compassion. [minute 8.30]

Mindfulness subject focus [minutes 8-24]

• "mindfulness [improves] mental agility"
• tool to try:  "The Mindfulness Assessment" available on hbr.org
• Mindfulness is "be-here-now"

Selflessness discussion [minutes 24-35]

"selflessness is the most important leadership quality in the 21st century"--Dominic Barton

"Selflessness helps us to see the inter-connected-ness of organizations and make us understand our modest contribution.  The only sound response is humility and gratitude." 

When you develop humility, it is easier to practice gratitude.

Research has shown that "gratitude is [the most] empowering leadership skill."


Compassion Discussion [starts minute 35]
Marriott Hotels example.

Jeff Weiner: "compassion without wisdom is folly; wisdom without compassion, ruthless." [minute 40]

• minute 43:  compassion is also about giving tough feedback so [your employee/colleague] can grow and improve.
• Compassion can be difficult.
• Compassion is valuable leadership skill. 
• Do you know how to develop your compassion?
• minute 44-48 short 3-minute "practice of compassion"
• be aware of your intention throughout your day.  Intention is directly related to acts of compassion.

When leaders are (1) mindful, (2) selfless, and (3) compassionate, this creates trust and social cohesion.  So, when hard times arise, the organization will be ready and resilient.

References mentioned
Mindful Leader website
The Potential Project
Mind of the Leader, the book

Related Blogposts

More Lunchtime Listen Recommendations

More about Mindfulness:  Are You Appreciating the Present Moment?

Mindfulness in the Workplace as Competitive Advantage and Healthy Workplace

More on Gratitude:  Reflective Readings to Inspire Wellness, Gratitude-a Powerful Force

More on Leadership

Supporting our Hospital Admin, Integrative Health Program Leaders

HeartMath and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Gift Ideas for the Integrative Health (IH) Practitioner or grad student-in-training

Movement toward non-drug pain relief therapies

Maiyah Olivas's work

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Lunchtime Learning: An Historical Perspective of the Economics of Integrative Health Models in the U.S. Healthcare System

keywords: integrative medicine models, integrative health, models of healthcare, economics of healthcare models, reducing health care costs with CAM (integrative medicine), the current U.S. insurance reimbursement model, value-based medicine, triple aim and quadruple aim

topics:  unique historical perspective on the changing models of healthcare to incorporate integrative medicine (formerly complementary and alternative medicine) into the U.S. healthcare model and the economics behind the stability and growth of any healthcare model in the current system

This week's Lunchtime Listen recommendation is John Weeks' presentation from May 17th, 2017, on "Evolving Economics of Integrative Medicine".  The webinar was hosted by the Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare at Duke University.
In the "Evolving Economics of Integrative Medicine" webinar presentation, John Weeks presents the historical perspective of integrative medicine and the economics of health care within the U.S. health care delivery system.

In case your lunch break is 30 minutes and not 50+ minutes, I included my notes below with minute marks about some of the subjects.  

Topic:  the historical perspective of integrative medicine and the economics of health care and health care delivery system

Discusses how the idea of CAM’s ability to reduce health care costs has some unexpected negatives in the health care delivery system.  U.S.’s current for-profit business model for health insurance actually has the perverse or negative incentive of “containing costs” and not wanting costs of providing healthcare to decrease.  This discussion with slides starts at minute 20.

For more on this, see related discussion in his article, "The 80/20 Rule: Why Medical Insurers are Not Interested in Cost Cutting (or Integrative Health)"

Minute 34-36:  The economic value argument.  Samueli Institute and Wayne Jonas, MD and their case for Integrative Health models as good for business and economic health. There is cost savings in nurse retention, the diminished patient length of stay, ability to "make beds available", patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction, and improved safety through reduced errors.

Minute 36:  the Rise of “Value-Based Medicine”.  The movement from Triple AIM to Quadruple AIM.
Key terms used in this movement:  patient-centered, outcomes, silos to teams, community, sick care to health care, cost-reduction

Minute 37-39:  He quotes several American Hospital Association leaders, about the Affordable Care act and how it has significantly helped change the healthcare system in the positive direction of Quadruple Aim

"we are realizing ...we need to change the focus of health care industry to creating health not just producing.." --Douglas Wood, MD, Director of Strategy and Policy, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

Minute 39:  He introduces the Consortium's PIHTA program and how it is related to the Bravewell Collaborative work

Minute 40:  PIHTA (Center for Optimal Integration) and examples of integrative health care models being incorporated into patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs)

PIHTA archived webinars

Recommended Reading or Watching
Escape Fire:  the fight to Rescue the U.S. Healthcare System
Learning more about the Movement of Integrative Medicine into Mainstream Medicine

More Lunchtime Listens
Biomedicine Review:  ReachMD presentation on opioid-induced constipation
The Opioid Epidemic, a Joint Pain Education Project video, within a blogpost filled with resources
Launching an Integrative Health Program in a Medical Center 
Integrative Medicine Leadership:  Lori Knutson's "Leading Simply in a Complex System" 
The Complexity of Acupuncture Research in just 10 minutes
Research Review:  Key Studies to Understand when Discussing Pain Management with a Physician

Samueli Institute's On Human Flourishing series

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Resource: Mindfulness in the Workplace as a Competitive Advantage for Healthy Businesses

keywords: mindfulness, workplace health, employee health, integrative medicine practitioners potential in employee health programs, Tai Chi Easy, MBSR

Wellness Program Certifications and Train-the-Trainer in the Field of East Asian Medicine:

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and

Tai Chi Easy™

Many hospital-practice East Asian Medicine Practitioners (Acupuncturists) are trained in mindfulness, whether it is the practice and teaching of qi gong or a Mindfulness-Based-Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor certification.

Castlight Health had a presentation in December 2017 about on how mindfulness in the workplace is a competitive advantage for employers. 

You can view a pdf of this presentation by "whil.", Make Wellbeing Your New Competitive Advantage here.

For more information about Jon Kabat-Zinn's  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs for hospitals and teacher-training, there is more info at the University of Massachusetts website.

Another useful standardized wellness-program teacher-training for Integrative Medicine practitioners is the Tai Chi Easy™ system developed by Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, and offered through the Healer Within Foundation.  Check out their page with published research references and links about the health benefits of Tai Chi. 

If you found this information helpful, please consider contributing at our website to help with creating this blog resource and building new resources for the community.  Thank you. 

Reflecting on Leadership, a New Year's reading recommendation list

keywords:  resources, recommended reading, leadership, teamwork, reflection

Recommended Reading on Leadership

(some books also available in audio format)

links and content updated 02.17.2020

For the Healthcare Program Leader, Change-Agent, or Integrative Health program "Champion", and Hospital Sponsor, current and future  

• Duke University Leadership Program white papers on leading change in health care:
• The Pebble in the Pond:  How Integrative Leadership Can Bring About Transformation by Adam Perlman, Bonnie Horrigan, Elizabeth Goldblatt, Victoria Maizes, and Ben Kliger.
• Informed Mindfulness:  The Power of Awareness and Choice in Effective Leadership by Michael Aquilino, Bonnie Horrigan, and Adam Perlman.
• The Leaders of Integrative Healthcare Programs audio and audiovisual resources these are located on our Lunchtime Listens page

• Margaret Heffernan's Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes, a 2015 TED book
• see how small shifts and behavior changes lay fertile ground for cultural change in the workplace
• Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times by Covey et al.
• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead:  Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. --added late winter 2019
• Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations by Monica Worline and Jane E. Dutton--added summer 2019
• "A leader who practices mindfulness and self-awareness is a positive force" post
• "Making space for innovation" post
• Subscribe to the Facebook Page to follow the "leadership and workplace Mondays" theme that started in spring 2018.  If you are on a Facebook fast, I just started doing a monthly summary of these social media posts in November 2018.

General Leadership Book Favorites

• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. (added late winter 2019)
• Rising Strong:  How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
• Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes
• See how small shifts and changes in behavior lay fertile ground for cultural change in the workplace in Margaret Heffernan's Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes, a 2015 TED book.
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (added 2.17.2020)

What I am reading or re-reading in 2020

last updated 2.17.2020. Watch our "Leadership & Workplace Mondays" posts for most recent updates

• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
• New website with Dare To Lead resources (added 3.30.2020)
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (added 2.17.2020)
• Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear by Richard Sheridan
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Classics--recommended foundational reading

• The classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by S. Covey
• The book, First Things First by S. Covey, offers not a clock for how to do more in less time, but a compass.
• "...provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going"
• Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times by Covey et al.
• Arianna Huffington's Thrive:  The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder   
• Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen Covey.
• "The intrinsic rewards of primary greatness . . . integrity, responsibility, and meaningful contribution"

If you are looking for related leadership and workplace recommendations in an audio or audiovisual form beyond these books, go to our growing list of Lunchtime Listen recommendations.

What are your favorite books on leadership and why?  Please write in the comments.

related blogposts

The Gift Ideas page

Supporting our Hospital Administrators

Reflective Readings to Inspire Your Health and Wellness

Learning about Mindfulness

The Integrative Medicine Researcher

The Healthcare Provider or Graduate Medical Student
Basics of Being an Employee in a Medium to Large Healthcare System, a video interview series
Reflection & Self-Care Recommended Reading

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Gift Ideas for the Graduate Medical Student or Health Care Provider

The Graduate Medical Student, Resident, or Practitioner interested in Integrative Health

some gift ideas

list and links updated 02.17.2020

You can request these books from your library, through the Libby app (Overdrive), or buy via the Amazon links. If you follow an Amazon link from this page and buy within a few hours, a few pennies of your purchase goes toward the Hospital Handbook Project. However, if you find this work useful, the best way to support this work is through our "support us" page on the website. Thank you.

Feed Your Mind

• Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 12th edition, hardcover. 
• Bates’ Pocket Guide available in paperback and Kindle formats
• Case Studies to Accompany Bates’ Guide available in paperback and Kindle formats
• Integrative Health Clinicians’ Desk Reference, paperback and Kindle editions
• Spark in the Machine
• Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, MD.  Paperback and Kindle formats.
• Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Educated Heart, a practical guide to professional boundaries by Nina McIntosh
• Griffin's Hospitals:  What They Are and How They Work
• Deepak Chopra books
• Super Brain:  Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
• Super Genes:  Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being

Practical Stuff for Work    

Yeti mug

• Yeti Mug—keep your student hydrated and the liquid stays hot or stays cold for the entire clinical shift or study session. 
• Yeti Rambler 20 oz
• 68oz Thermos insulated (by Thermos)
• RFID-blocking wallet--to protect your hospital ID card and other cards (credit cards)
• RFID-blocking wallet, Trayvax company  Such as
• Trayvax Ascent, Trayvax Element, Trayvax Axis, and Trayvax Contour and more at their website.

See the Gift Idea page for more inspiration and links to fair trade coffee and chocolate

Getting Used to the Workplace as an Employee-Clinician

• "Basics of Being an Employee in a Medium to Large Healthcare Setting", a new video interview series recorded in 2019 and going through editing and publication into 2020. Topics in the six videos include: what to expect during employee orientation (onboarding), performance plans & employee evaluations, mentor-relationships and career path mapping, and team communication as a professional clinician
• First Steps (to getting your foot in the door of hospital-based practice) resource (e-booklet + workbook)
• The "New Hospital Employee Resource"
• Follow our "Leadership & Workplace Mondays" theme on our public Facebook Page and the blog article summaries of these posts.

Research Resources for the Hospital-based Clinician

• The "Research & Metrics" theme on our Facebook Page and blog article summaries. 
• Research Literacy and Practical Applications for the Hospital-based Clinician
• Short courses with pdfs on metrics for clinical practice
• How To Use a Validated Pain Scale in Your Clinical Practice
• Calculating Morphine Equivalent Dose (MEQ) for Non-prescribers: Medication Review Standard
• The Integrative Medicine Researcher
• Notes from the 2019 Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) Conference

If this was useful, please support this community work.  

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The Integrative Medicine Researcher

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updated 12.15.2018

1. Are you researcher interested in designing studies in the field of integrative health/integrative medicine?
2. Are you an integrative health (IH) program director, designated IH "champion" for your department or facility, or the program lead?
3. Are you a integrative health clinician looking to design your clinical metrics?
4. Or, are you a graduate student looking to understanding more about research in the field?

Each of the above 4 have slightly different resource needs.

• First, no matter which of the 4 you identify as, I recommend you sign up for the email list to have access to our basic resources and be notified of updates in our resources as they are created.  
• Second, if you are not finding what you need through the following resource links, please contact me via the website contact page.  Some resources are still in development.  And, I would like feedback if our resources need some updates or improvements.  Thank you.  

In the spirit of the "gift ideas" and resource recommendations, here is a list of items available through Amazon.  When you follow the Amazon affiliate links on this page and purchase an item within a few hours, a few pennies goes toward the Hospital Handbook Project.  However, several of these resources are not available from Amazon, so we drafted a resource pdf of bibliographies, etc.  If you are interested in that pdf, please contact me through the contact page on the website.

(1) The Researcher interested in Designing Studies in the Integrative Health Field

Books available through Amazon—just follow these links:

• Spark in the Machine:  How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
• Acupuncture Research:  Strategies for Establishing an Evidence Base by Hugh MacPherson, Richard Hammerschlag, George Lewith, and Schnyer
• Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare by Volker Schneid and Hugh MacPherson
• Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies:  Principles, Problems and Solutions by George Thomas Lewith, Wayne B. Jonas, and Harald Walach
• Clinicians’ &Educators’ Desk Reference on the Integrative Health & Medicine Professions by Elizabeth Goldblatt, Pamela Snider, and Beth Rosenthal, and Renee Motheral Clugston
• Science of the Heart, vol. 2 by Rollin McCraty.  The science behind HeartMath (breathing techniques, meditation, brain waves, neuroscience, biofeedback)
• The "Researcher's Resource List"
• This is a pdf compilation of citations of recommend resources for the beginning or established researcher interested in the field of integrative health and particularly acupuncture.  The list has been compiled with feedback from the Hospital practice Handbook Project community.  It contains favorite reads and resources on clinical research design, published research and pilot studies, and common research field issue discussions.  
• If you are interested in this pdf, send me a specific message through the contact page of the website.  

(2) The Integrative Health Program Director or Program Champion

• We have a growing resource list.  The basics are in this post.
• When you are ready to dive deeper and into more specifics for a specialty or program or research and pilot studies in that specific field, please contact us via the website for the "Researcher's Resource List" and other specifics you are interested in, such as published citations of work.
• We recently (2018) started an interview series, to be identified with the keyword tag "interview series".  The first published interview is with Dr. John Burns of Aurora Health system of Wisconsin and their Emergency Department program.  If you, your program, or facility would like to sponsor or co-sponsor this series or similar work, contact me via the website.

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(3) The Integrative Health Clinician interested in clinical metrics

• Courses:  we are creating short courses on basics of using metrics in clinical practice, based on feedback from the community
• Follow these tags/keywords in the blog and the website: 
• metrics, research literacy, study design, grants and funding, interview series, webinar series
• and look at suggestions in #4 below.

(4) The Graduate Student Looking to Understand more about Research in the Field 

• Check out the ideas at gifts for the graduate medical/healthcare student
• Research review blogposts:  
• 2018 acupuncture and fascia literature review
• biomechanisms of NSAIDs and electroacupuncture pain relief pathways
• Mel Hopper Koppleman and her work with EBA:
• The field of acupuncture research in 10 minutes
• Evidence based Acupuncture and EBA Connect
• Key papers to know when discussing acupuncture with a physician
• Meridians:  Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and their Researcher's Resource webpage
• See list from #3 and #1 above and 
• Books on Amazon or your Library
• If you are on a limited (grad student) budget, see if these are available through your local library in physical form or through Overdrive (electronic database public libraries and academic libraries subscribe to) or Libby (app)
• all the books listed in #1 above plus
• Research Design:  Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 5th edition by John Creswell
• Evidence-based Nursing:  The Research Practice Connection by Sarah Jo Brown
• Designing Clinical Research by Stephen B. Hulley
• Nursing Research:  Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-based Practice by Geri LoBiondo-Wood, the award-winning 8th edition or the newer 9th edition.  

What is the Researcher's Resource List?

• This is a pdf compilation of citations of recommend resources for the beginning or established researcher interested in the field of integrative health and particularly acupuncture.  The list has been compiled with feedback from the Hospital practice Handbook Project community.  It contains favorite reads and resources on clinical research design, published research and pilot studies, and common research field issue discussions.  If you are interested in this pdf, send me a specific message through the contact page of the website.

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