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Make the most of your digital skills – tips and tricks 21-25

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We’ve been sharing tips and tricks on twitter/X to help you to develop and demonstrate your digital skills and use them to deliver best patient care. It is a reminder of the many ways that the Health Library can support you.

Here are tips 21 to 25:

21. Use critical appraisal tools to identify the best articles

Critically appraising the literature you find is a key digital skill. Read our blog post to find out where you can get critical appraisal tools to help you use the best evidence.

22. Communicate better with your patients

Use your #DigitalSkills in your work to deliver patient education - learn about our tutorial 10 steps to creating patient information.

23. Learn about referencing

You need to acknowledge the work of others in your own assignments - learn about our referencing etutorial to help you to understand why this skills is essential.

24. Complete your Health Library induction

Make the most of your Health Library – complete your library induction. Find out how the Health Library can help you to succeed in your studies and support your evidence-based practice.

25. Stay in touch with the Health Library

Need any help from us or want to provide some feedback; Want to learn what were doing or stay up-to-date with any changes; then there are a number of ways to stay in touch with the Health Library.

Need more help?

You’ll find lots of help on our Information Skills for Health blog, including posts on how to develop your skills and use our resources. 

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