Asbury Park Press profiles Hospital Librarian
Robin Siegel of Howell, the librarian at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township (Freehold, NJ) is profiled by the Asbury Park Press.
Not a ground-shaking item, but it sure is nice to see a reasonably good description of what a Hospital Librarian does.
Excerpt:
“I’m here to answer questions,” Siegel said, “for anybody in the hospital,” meaning for doctors, nurses and other staff members, along with patients and their families.
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Information requests from the last few months included those for recipes for pureed food (requested by the hospital’s food services department), suicide statistics (a nurse giving a presentation), chemotherapy protocols (a pharmacist), breast cancer in men (a doctor) and whether chicken soup has a positive role in health care (a nurse).
Regarding chicken soup — yes, there are studies backing that up, Siegel said.
When she is researching for a doctor, for example, the doctor can spend time actually doctoring. Then, Siegel turns over the research to the doctor.
“I don’t come up with a recommendation; I (simply) give them the literature,” Siegel said.
As Robb Mackes wrote on MEDLIB-L, “Robin (and her patrons) did an excellent job in proving the value and the worth of a hospital library.”
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