Information Skills for Health

   Are you a foundation year doctor, starting work at UHNM (University Hospitals of North Midlands)? Make sure you get off to a good start by using key resources to support your clinical decisions and help you to practice evidence-based medicine. Key resources for foundation year doctors include: NHS OpenAthens  – register for your NHS OpenAthens username. This gives you access to NHS-based online resources such as ebooks, journals and databases. Complete the online form to register –  follow these instructions . Oxford Medicine Online  – Follow best practice by using Oxford Medicine reference texts. You can access a wide range of handbooks for easy to read information across a range of specialties. For more information about the collection  read our blog post . BMJ Best Practice  – a wealth of information to help you, including epidemiolgy, history and exam, treatement, patient discussions, complications, patient leaflets and so much more for conditions and diseases. BNF / BNFc  –  es

  You need to develop background knowledge in the subject area you are studying, working in or researching. Access to established information provides you with standards and proven content helping you to identify existing practices, recommendations and gaps in the knowledge-base. Books (and ebooks) are an excellent source of background knowledge! Resources to help you to find background information: Library Search    This is the library catalogue. You can search for books across our 3 libraries (Health Library, Campus Library and Health Library at County). You can request a title be saved for you to collect later. You can request to pick up a title from a different library to its host library. You can also access ebooks via Library Search. Most titles are available to Keele users; titles available to NHS users are more restricted. Access Library Search To request print books: All users can search Library Search for books (within our collections) and ebooks (where access

 Staff at UHNM can get the latest updates about UHNM-based resources from our latest bulletin . In this issue: Health Library NHS Induction, NHS Online Library for UHNM Staff, BMJ Best Practice - new comorbidities manager, Libraries Week, Kortext Resilience and Wellbeing Collection, Key Resources for F1s, Looking for Patient Information, using TRIP, KnowledgeShare sharing options changing, Easy access to the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub, Library Newsletter.

 Medicine students need to find the best, most relevant information and evidence to complete their assignments. Keele University buys a wide range of different types of resources to give you access to good quality information. Books and eBooks You can borrow books and access ebooks by searching for your topic on Library Search. Library Search holds information about all the books / ebooks available to Keele students. You can borrow books from either the Campus Library or Health Library. Read our blog post for instructions on how to read an ebook on Library Search . Running a simple search on Library Search You can also run quick, simple searches on Library Search for articles and journals, as well as books / ebooks. The results may include a wide range of content as Library Search includes resources across the many disciplines covered by Keele courses. See our blog post for instructions on running simple searches . See our blog post for help using filters to focus res

 From HEE: Health Education England (HEE) has extended their national subscription to BMJ Best Practice to include the Comorbidities Manager for all NHS staff and learners in England. In the UK alone, one in three patients admitted to hospital as an emergency has five or more conditions. This poses a significant problem for healthcare systems. Clinical guidelines only focus on single conditions, but failure to treat the whole patient leads to worse clinical outcomes, and longer lengths of stay. The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the problem, with over 60% of patients admitted to intensive care units having comorbidities. The BMJ Best Practice Comorbidities Manager supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities. BMJ Best Practice is a practical tool to help clinicians meet the changing and more complex needs of patients and maximise NHS resources, together resulting

 From Clinical Key: Patients rely on your clinicians at every moment in their care journeys, and your hospital’s reputation relies on your clinicians’ decisions. See how ClinicalKey supports physicians in the moments that matter.  Watch the video for an example clinical case - use the search options, clinical overviews and calculators. Moments of Uncertainty from Elsevier Clinical Solutions on Vimeo . Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff via OpenAthens login. For more help using Clinical Key see our help page .

 Nursing students need to find the best, most relevant information and evidence to complete their assignments and dissertation. Keele University buys a wide range of different types of resources to give you access to good quality information. Books and eBooks You can borrow books and access ebooks by searching for your topic on Library Search. Library Search holds information about all the books / ebooks available to Keele students. You can borrow books from either the Campus Library or Health Library. Read our blog post for instructions on how to read an ebook on Library Search . Running a simple search on Library Search You can also run quick, simple searches on Library Search for articles and journals, as well as books / ebooks. The results may include a wide range of content as Library Search includes resources across the many disciplines covered by Keele courses. See our blog post for instructions on running simple searches . See our blog post for help using filter