Information Skills for Health

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Start to develop your literature searching skills; follow these easy steps to improve your searching.  I have updated the tabs for this blog. Check the new Literature Searching tab (above) to learn how to conduct a literature search to find the information you need for your studies, research, work and patient care. You'll find all the steps listed along with links to blog posts and etutorials to help you to develop your skills.

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. 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. 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. Why is referencin...

   Due to loss of funding, the wonderful blog   Evidently Cochrane   will be ending at the end of March 2024. This has been a useful resource providing easy to read evidence summaries on a wide range of conditions and diseases. It will be sadly missed. Message from the editors: We want to acknowledge the huge contribution that all of our bloggers have made. We are very grateful. We have had a wonderful time working on the blog, and have learned so much. A big thank you also to you, our readers, for being part of our journey. Evidently Cochrane Editors, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig For help using the Cochrane Library please complete our online tutorial: Searching Cochrane Library for systematic reviews  

 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 16 to 20: 16. Read the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants Keep up-to-date with good practice by regularly reading ejournals. Nursing and healthcare assistants can sign-up to regular updates from the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. Instructions for signing up to updates 17. Watch Health Library videos on Youtube The Health Library YouTube channel is an excellent resource; packed with informative and engaging videos that cover health library services and resources as well as support to help you to develop your information skills. Go to the Health Library Youtube channel 18. Install the Ebsco App NHS staff can use their #DigitalSkills to get quick access to articles from your NHS resources via the Ebsco mobile app. ...

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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 11 to 15: 11. Explore NHS eBooks eBooks offer you a wealth of information. NHS staff can access ebooks conveniently and easily via the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub. Learn how to search for ebooks and read them online by following these instructions Finding eBooks on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub – step-by-step instructions 12. Install the Clinical Key App Get information quickly to support day-to-day clinical decisions. UHNM staff can install the Clinical Key app for articles, overviews, guidelines and much more... Clinical Key mobile app - new instructions 13. Explore NHS resources via the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub Avoid the hit and miss of searching google. Up your #DigitalSkills and search the NHS Knowledge and L...

 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 6 to 10: 6. Read RCN journals for best practice and best patient care 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? Demonstrate your #DigitalSkills by reading from our online collection of RCN journals. Learn more about this key collection of nursing journals from this blog post 7. Install BMJ App for information on the go Use online digital resources to deliver good patient care - consult BMJ Best Practice to help you to make confident clinical decisions. Install the app now for quick access – follow these instructions 8. Discover OrthoEvidence for musculoskeletal conditions Discover OrthoEvidence to save you time. Use you...

 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 1 to 5: 1. What are digital skills? First of all, let’s start by checking what digital skills are. Watch our video for a brief overview of the types of skills we’re looking at and how the Health Library can help: Watch the video Digital Skills support from the Health Library 2. What are Literature Searching Skills So, are you ready to find the right information? Where do you start? Start with our Beginner's guide to literature searching - find out what digital skills you'll need. Learn more from our Beginner’s guide to literature searching 3. NHS OpenAthens Account You’ll need the right login to access online resources. NHS staff need to register for an NHS OpenAthens account so that you can search databases and access full-...

The Health Library website provides you with access to a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services to support your studies, work and professional development. Develop your information skills to find the information you need effectively. We’ve got plenty of opportunities to help you to develop your information skills and learn how to use our resources effectively to find the information you need. Go to the Training section of our website for all the different options. You can visit the various options by clicking on the menu options presented at the top of page. Training page showing the top menu items Go to the most popular options by paging down to see the Quick Links for the key sections: Information Skills eTutorials, Online Guides and Support and Courses and Workshops. Quick links options on the training page Page down again to see the images and links for the subsections: Sub-sections presented as images Information skills etutor...

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We provide you with lots of opportunities to develop your literature searching skills. Book Collection You can look for items within the library by using Library Search . The following shelf-marks will be particularly useful – LB2369.O6, R118.6 and RT81.5. Information Skills for Health Blog Our Information Skills blog provides posts about resources and how to use them. You can sign-up to receive email updates in your inbox when new content is added. Online Guides and Support Most of our main resources have their own help page in the Online Guides and Support section of the website . Here you will find links to etutorials, guides, videos etc to help you to the most out of the resources we have. Online eTutorials We have developed a number of online etutorials to help you to get started with our main resources and develop your information skills . Training Programme You can book onto one of our scheduled training sessions to develop your skills...

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