{"id":21115,"date":"2023-12-11T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21115"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:33:33","slug":"medlineplus-tutorials-for-community-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/medlineplus-tutorials-for-community-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"MedlinePlus Tutorials for Community Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be challenging to find health information you can trust. If you are a community health worker, your clients may also find it a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>MedlinePlus is a great resource for health information. It provides information on a wide range of health topics for the public. But maybe you are unsure how to use MedlinePlus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21121\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/blog-slide-300x169.png\" alt=\"video tutorial title, &quot;Searching for Health Information on MedlinePlus&quot; with NNLM logo at bottom\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/blog-slide-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/blog-slide-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/blog-slide-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/12\/blog-slide.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Region 5 of the Network of the National Library of Medicine worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoorinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Next Door<\/a> to create seven easy to follow video tutorials to help learn the basics of using MedlinePlus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/about\/regions\/region5\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These short videos<\/a> guide you, the community health worker, to find the information you need to help your clients find health information. The video topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn About the Health Information Resource: MedlinePlus<\/li>\n<li>How to Evaluate if Health Information is Trustworthy<\/li>\n<li>Searching for Health Information on MedlinePlus<\/li>\n<li>How to Best Use the Search Box on MedlinePlus<\/li>\n<li>Using MedlinePlus to Find Information About Drugs, Supplements and Herbs<\/li>\n<li>Get Information About Medical Tests on MedlinePlus<\/li>\n<li>How to View MedlinePlus Information in Multiple Languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The videos range from just over 4 minutes to just over 8 minutes in length. Each video tutorial has closed captioning and includes a written transcript to help make it easier for more people to learn how to use MedlinePlus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be challenging to find health information you can trust. If you are a community health worker, your clients may also find it a struggle. MedlinePlus is a great resource for health information. It provides information on a wide range of health topics for the public. But maybe you are unsure how to use&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/medlineplus-tutorials-for-community-health-workers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,9,315,5],"tags":[413,119,254,217],"class_list":["post-21115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-health-literacy","category-new-from-nnlm-region-5","category-training-education","tag-community-health-workers","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-information","tag-medlineplus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21124,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}