Information Skills for Health

All nurses working in the NHS can stay up-to-date with the latest information for your specialty. You can get recommendations, guidelines and practical advice covering all aspects of your nursing role. Get access to this key, evidence-based, specialty specific advice from the   Oxford Medicine Online collection of ebooks . This includes books from the series: Emergencies in Oxford Handbooks in nursing As well as a range of Oxford textbooks. Watch this short video for more information, a full list of titles and a demonstration of the collection:

 NHS nurses can access up-to-date, evidence-based procedures to support their work from the Royal Marsden Manual Online. This key text provide easy access to procedures, illustrations and practical advice for all nursing roles. Access the Royal Marsden Manual Online To access the full-text: 1. Go to the Royal Marsden Manual directly or click the link on our NHS Resources page . Select the login option [top right] 2. Select OpenAthens from the log in options presented 3. Enter your NHS OpenAthens username and password and sign in. 4. You can now browse and search within the Royal Marsden Manual. More help? Register online for your NHS OpenAthens username Contact the eresources librarian if you encounter any problems

  Get quick access to NHS full-text articles when searching on Google Scholar. If you use google scholar to find online articles, link to your library subscriptions to access full-text straight away. Here's how to do it: 1. Go to Google Scholar Google Scholar is a google product that allows you to search academic or scholarly based content indexed by google. It covers hundreds of disciplines and sources. It is suitable for simple text searching or for looking for specific articles, where you have the reference.  To set up links to your library full-text content, click the  menu  option. Google Scholar home page 2. Go to Google Scholar Settings Select the menu option in the top-left corner and select the Settings option from the drop-down list. Google scholar menu options 3. Go to Library Links From the Settings page, select the Library Links option. Library Links option on the Settings page 4. Find your organisation Search for your NHS organisation in order to link to the full-te

 NHS medical staff stay up-to-date with the latest information for your specialty and make confident decisions. You have access to key, evidence-based, specialty specific guidance and recommendations from the Oxford Medicine Online collection of ebooks . This includes books from the series: Emergencies in Oxford Medical Handbooks As well as a range of Oxford textbooks. Watch this short video for more information and a demonstration of the collection: This collections is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username . You'll find more information about NHS ebook collections on our eBooks web page .

 Clinical Key is a simple, specialist search engine to help you get to the evidence quickly. Get quick access to evidence-based information Make confident clinical decisions using the best evidence - find it quickly on Clinical Key: use the simple, text-predictive search engine browse comprehensive clinical overviews check the latest guidelines from leading organisations, including NICE look for customisable patient education leaflets Get full-text access to support in-depth searching Complete your in-depth searching by accessing key full-text content on Clinical Key: ebook texts in key subjects full-text access to journal titles multimedia resources to support learning Get access Clinical Key is available to NHS staff working at UHNM: go to our NHS eresources page for the link to Clinical Key log in when prompted using your NHS OpenAthens username activate your account once logged in to access advanced features Get help For more help: complete our short presentation Getting Started w

 The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is the new discovery service to help you to find information and evidence from a selection of NHS subscribed resources. It is supplied by Ebsco and includes searching items from Ebsco's Knowledge Base. These datasets do not include all the bibliographic databases purchased nationally or locally.  They include CINAHL and Medline which are supplied by EBSCO. However they do not include the databases supplied by  ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer (Ovid) such as  BNI and EMBASE.  This also means that BNI, EMBASE etc are not available when you select to 'Limit by Databases' in a search. HEE have released a list of all the current resources which are searched within the Hub; note that this does not mean all items are available in full-text: AMBER: the home of ambulance services research Academic Search Index APA PsycArticles APA PsycBooks Aphasiology Archive BioOne Complete BMJ Best Practice British Library Document Supply Centre Inside Serials &

 Our NHS users can access essential nursing titles from RCNi . You can easily stay up-to-date with your favourite titles by setting up an alert for an eTOC. You’ll then get an email with details of the latest issue in your inbox. Check our previous blog post to learn  what an eTOC is . Set up an alert on a journal from RCNi by following the steps below: How to set up a journal alert on an RCNi journal title 1. Link to the RCNi platform Go to the journal page by first finding the journal on your browzine list or by going to the RCNi journals page . Select the journal title you want to stay up-to-date with. 2. Find the alert option Page down until you come to the options on the right-hand-side. Click the option Sign up for e-alert . 3. Create a personal account and sign in You will need to have a personal account to link to your alert(s). You may already have an account if you are an RCN member. If you are already a member page down to the Log in link, on the right

 Are you finding the evidence? Be prepared for your assignments and dissertation. Whether you are presenting arguments in an assignment, searching the literature for your dissertation or deciding on the best care for your patients, make sure you've got the best evidence to make a confident decision or answer your question. Learn how to complete a literature search plan to help you find good quality information and the best, up-to-date evidence. Complete our Introduction to Literature Searching tutorial to learn about the steps you need to complete and start your plan.

 You need the best evidence to support your assignments, dissertation, clinical decisions and patient care. Do you have the rights skills to find it? Are you searching the best resources to find it? Complete our etutorial Check Your Skills to find out. Answer the questions, get your score and follow your action plan.

  Are you a nurse looking for articles to support your work and professional development? Do you want to stay up-to-date with changes in nursing practice? Nurses working for our local NHS organisations can access a range of nursing-specific journal titles. These have been purchased by the Health Library especially for our NHS nurses. RCNi Collection Stay up-to-date with the latest developments impacting nursing, including changes in policy, practice and research with the following titles: Cancer Nursing Practice - specialist cancer-related topics, as well as broader issues such as palliative care and oncology nursing Emergency Nurse - practice-based journal, written specifically for nurses providing any aspect of emergency care Evidence-based Nursing - a one-stop resource for the latest research across all nursing specialties Learning Disability Practice - written for nurses who care for people with learning, or intellectual, disabilities Mental Health Practice - provides a wid