Partnering Alongside Librarians

Minnette Markus-Rodden1, Jeannine Creazzo, Pamela Hargwood

  • 1Minnette Markus-Rodden is assistant vice president, nursing science, at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ. Jeannine Creazzo is director of the medical library, continuing education, and research at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, NJ, where Ryan Norman is a medical librarian. Pamela Hargwood is a clinical librarian at Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ. Courtney Vose is former senior vice president, chief nursing officer, and associate professor at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ; she is currently senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT. Mary Beth Russell is senior vice president of the Center for Professional Development, Innovation, and Research at RWJBarnabas Health in Livingston, NJ. Contact author: Minnette Markus-Rodden, minnette.markus-rodden@rwjbh.org. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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