KRS Website: Point of Care Resources: What are Point of Care Resources?

Using Point of Care Resources

Point of Care (PoC) resources are:

evidence-based summaries of all the best and latest research
offer clinical guidance and support at the point of care
quick and easy to search
updated regularly

We offer a variety of PoC resources, each offering a different scope & coverage:

clinical topics & answers
(DynaMed & Lippincott Advisor),
skills & procedures
(Lippincott Procedures), and
drug information
(Lexidrug, Micromedex, CPS, Natural Medicines).

How can this guide help me?

This guide is a education resource for:

clinicians who want to know more about how to use PoC tools to support their practice, and
educators and managers who want to promote these resources and help staff use them effectively

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Need a little extra help? Want your team to learn more? We offer regularly scheduled and customized education sessions.

Which Point of Care resource should I use?

Clinical Topics & Answers

Evidence-based clinical decision support for all health care staff written by physicians.
Best for its: Breadth/depth of clinical topics, expert overviews and recommendations, easy to find related practice guidelines.
Integrated into Connect Care

Evidence-based information to support nursing practice at the point of care.
Best for its: Nursing focus, including: nursing considerations for each clinical topic, nursing care plans, patient teaching library.
Integrated into Connect Care

Clinical Skills & Procedures

Step-by-step guidance, covering nursing, physical therapy, and respiratory therapy procedures and skills.
Best for its: Clear skill checklists, procedures with images/videos, groupings by specialty settings.
Integrated into Connect Care and Desktop Shortcut (on most AHS devices)

Drug Information

Comprehensive drug information with several specialty collections and resources (Trissel's IV-Check, Briggs Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, Martindale, ect.)
Best for its: Patient information handouts, and specialty resources.
Integrated into Connect Care

Comprehensive drug information and clinical decision support tools.
Best for its: Poisoning and toxicology resources

Authoritative resource that provides information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
Best for its: Interactions, adverse effects, and effectiveness of natural medicines.

Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) is the Canadian standard for drug monographs.
Best for its: Health Canada–approved drug monographs, therapeutic info and nonprescription therapy for most common conditions, drug tables and algorithms, pill identifier and drug interaction checker.

Point of Care Resources: What are Point of Care Resources?