Information Skills for Health

 We have a brand new presentation - How to create an academic poster: hints and tips . Showcasing your work, project or research is an important element of your information skill set. An academic poster offers you an opportunity to share your work in a concise and visually appealing way. This presentation will offer some tips to help you to create your own poster.

  Make confident decisions with support from best practice and guidelines in children's and young people’s nursing. Access key titles from the Oxford Handbook ebook collection, using your OpenAthens username. Oxford Handbooks supporting children’s nurses Emergencies in Children’s and Young People’s Nursing A one-stop quick reference for children's and young people's nurses providing emergency care in the acute hospital setting. Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing This title gives concise, practical, and expert advice on all aspects of the role of the nurse who works with children. It is a comprehensive and reliable guide to the care of children and young people in a family context. This edition includes the most up-to-date legislation, policy, and practice including the latest NICE guidelines on child healthcare. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children’s and Young People’s Nursing A concise, current, and evidence-based practical gu

 Digital skills are the skills that you need to develop to help you to work, learn and live in a digital society. The Health Library can help you to develop, practice and demonstrate those skills. How do we do that? Watch our new, short video to get an overview of digital skills and how the Health Library can help you. There are a number of different definitions of digital skills, this is what we have chosen to use. Digital skills include: Information skills - finding, interpreting, evaluating, managing and sharing information Learning skills - studying and learning in technology-rich environments ICT skills - adopt, adapt and use digital devices, applications and services Communication and collaboration - participating in digital networks Media literacy - critically read and creatively use a range of media Digital scholarship - participate in academic and professional practices that depend on digital systems Digital identity and wellbeing - manage your digital reputation and online id

  Are you a new nurse in a department? Or want to review procedures in your nursing specialism? Take a look at the Oxford Handbook for your specialty for evidence-based guidelines, recommendations and best practice. You can read the full-text of titles from key Oxford Handbooks online: Oxford Handbook of… Cancer Nursing - covers all aspects of cancer care; from pre-diagnosis, through treatment, to issues of advanced disease and palliative care. It includes cancer biology, genetics and treatments, as well as new targeted and complementary therapies. It is fully updated to follow the current evidence-based research, and takes a multidisciplinary view of the subject. Cardiac Nursing - packed full of clinical information and practical advice, this book covers everything from assessment to cardiac rehabilitation. This new edition contains the emergency treatment of stroke as well as a new section on genetics, and information on the management of valvular disease has been expanded.

  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 North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare 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  - provi

  All NHS nurses can get quick and easy access to reference sources for nursing emergencies.  Find information on: diagnosis risk assessment patient assessment interventions management You can read the full-text of titles from key Oxford Handbooks: Emergencies in Adult Nursing Identify which clinical problems are true emergencies, which require urgent attention and those that can wait – differential diagnoses for each clinical presentation are identified, along with the actions required to ensure effective treatment is provided. Emergencies in Children's and Young People's Nursing A one-stop quick reference for children's and young people's nurses providing emergency care in the acute hospital setting. Emergencies in Mental Health Nursing A practical, accessible guide for mental health nurses confronted with emergencies; enabling them to manage emergencies in a therapeutic, safe and legally proper manner. This resource comprises easy to read bulletted short notes with a

   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 UHNM 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 Learning Disability Practice - written for nurses who care for people with learning, or intellectual, disabilities Mental Health Practice - provides a wide range of information to develop creative and evidence-based approaches to practice Nursing Children and Young People - cove

 We're re-organising our etutorials. All the Getting Started tutorials have been merged into the new Information Skills eTutorials section . You'll now be able to find all our tutorials on one page. If you are looking for a particular Getting Started tutorial and can't find it, please get in touch with the eresources librarian .