Category: Challenges
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HEALWA Road Trip
This week I was lucky enough to be invited to provide HEALWA instruction to school nurses in the North Central Educational Service District in Washington State. This meant a three-day road trip to Moses Lake, Wenatchee, and Omak, teaching one-hour HEALWA workshops at each site. There’s a fair bit of planning that goes into these…
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How Do You Pick a Research Question?
I’m currently in-between research projects at the moment, and I’m trying to find that perfect question that both captures my imagination and would be useful to others in my field. My last research project, about the information needs of K-12 school nurses, sort of fell into my lap due to the nature of my outreach…
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4 Tips to Conquer Writing Anxiety
I have spent the last few weeks working on putting together a research paper to submit for publication. This is the first research paper that I have written and will have (hopefully) published as a professional librarian; as a result, I have been experiencing some writing anxiety that has been preventing me from making as…
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Working on the Fringe
I have a BS in biology and an MLIS, and my education has served me well so far. However, I am not educated in medicine, and that has been something of a stumbling block for me in my outreach work. The outreach I do as part of my job is targeted to healthcare professionals in…
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The Importance of Flexibility
My position as a Health Sciences Outreach Librarian is entirely new, so I am able to design my work approach as I go along. I love that freedom, but as I’ve said before, it can also be challenging because I am essentially making things up as I go along. Sometimes my initial approach is successful,…
Kathryn Vela 