Information Skills for Health

 Support workers and nursing and healthcare assistants at UHNM can get the latest issues of the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants  sent straight to their inbox. This journal focuses on nursing and healthcare assistants as well as assistant practitioners. You'll find articles to help you in your work and support your career development. View the latest issue online here . Highlighted Articles Here's a flavour of the articles you can read. Type 2 diabetes in adults: an overview Healthcare assistants will routinely encounter patients living with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and may be involved in the assessment and long-term management process as part of their day to day practice. Therefore, it is important for healthcare assistants to understand the pathophysiology and causative factors of the condition to enable better treatment and management plans, and provide safe and effective care. Men's health: an introduction This article, the first in the series on men'...

 Sign-up to KnowledgeShare to get regular, personalised evidence updates straight to your inbox. Save time, save effort and stay up-to-date. Key Evidence We can set your KnoweldgeShare profile to focus on your interests. This can include clinical conditions as well as non-clinical topics such as leadership, quality improvement, patient safety, education and research and many more. You'll then get content matching your profile via email. You can also sign-up to receive the table of contents (ToCs) from your favourite journals straight to your inbox. All managed for you in one place by us. Content will include links to our subscribed resources and access options, saving you the effort of finding the full-text. Get Access Complete our Knowledgeshare request forms to let us know what evidence you would like to receive: Request KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates (simple form) Request KnowledgeShare journal table of contents (ToCs) updates More help See our Current Awareness page for more...

I thought I would just send out a reminder to encourage you to use the resources we have at the Health Library to support leaders and management staff in the NHS. Our resources give you access to a wealth of information, research and support to help you to make evidence-based decisions. Journals Journals provide you with the latest research, examples of best practice, support for professional development and expert commentary. Use your NHS OpenAthens username to access full-text from our subscribed journal collection, including: British Journal of Healthcare Management – a leading journal published monthly, focusing on management and leadership in the healthcare sector. You’ll find peer-reviewed research articles, literature reviews, service evaluations, quality improvement, practice reviews, reports and commentaries. Topics include health technology, infrastructure, staff satisfaction and wellbeing, patient safety, integrated care and healthcare education and training. Recent article...

  Staying up-to-date with the latest evidence and keeping on top of the plethora of published material is an important activity for modern healthcare professionals. The Health Library can make it easier for you. Health Library Current Awareness Service The Health Library uses KnowledgeShare to help you to stay up-to-date with the latest evidence. Sign-up to get evidence update emails and the latest journal electronic table of contents (eToCs) straight to your inbox. You can get personalised emails on a range of topics including clinical conditions and diseases as well as management, quality improvement and patient safety issues. Content can include articles, reviews, reports and summaries. You can also receive table of contents emails for the latest issue of the journals you want to keep abreast of. Make sure you stay up-to-date to give the best patient care. Request your evidence update Request your journal eToC update Stay in touch with the Health Library Sign up to ...

 Nurses working in the NHS can get support from specialist nursing resources and the Health Library to help them deliver the best patient care. Make sure you get the best evidence to: Support confident decisions Promote good practice Reflect on for your revalidation Promote your professional development Contribute to good patient care Visit the Health Library The Health Library offers you a quiet study environment where you can catch-up with paperwork, meet colleagues and complete training. You can use NHS-networked computers, accessible via your NHS login. Or borrow an NHS-based laptop to use within the Clinical Education Centre. Library staff are on-hand to help and support your access to resources. Run quick searches on the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub You don’t have to run searches on Google and waste time weeding out irrelevant results and searching for full-text options. Instead use the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub [UHNM]. You can run simple searches ...

 As a foundation year doctor there are moments when you probably feel overwhelmed with all the new information you have to process. Take advantage of these key resources to develop your clinical knowledge, enhance your professional development, stay up-to-date with the latest developments and improve your patient care. Register for NHS OpenAthens If you haven’t already done so, start by registering for your NHS OpenAthens username for fast, easy access to a wealth of online NHS-based resources. BMJ Best Practice Use BMJ Best Practice to quickly access easy-to-read key information on hundreds of diseases and conditions, either online or via the mobile app. Make confident, informed decisions about patient care with up-to-date, evidence-based information on diagnosis, treatment options, management strategies, differential diagnoses, comorbidities, drug interactions and much more. Oxford Medicine Online When you’re ready to rotate to your next placement refresh your knowl...

 Need to stay up-to-date with the latest evidence? Want to make sure you're keeping up with the latest published research? Want to know more about KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates? Watch our new video to learn what KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates can offer you. Go to our current awareness web page to sign-up .

   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 conditio...

 Join KnowledgeShare so that you can get personalised evidence updates, on your specialty, sent straight to your inbox. You can stay uptodate with the latest reports, guidelines, systematic reviews, toolkits and research. We now have a simple online form for you to request a KnowledgeShare profile. Complete the online form and we will set up your profile for you. If you need any changes just get in touch with the Health Library or your librarian . You can learn more about KnowledgeShare and other current awareness options from our Current Awareness page .

  Nurses working in the NHS can get support from specialist nursing resources to help them deliver the best care. Make sure you get the best evidence to:   Support confident decisions   Promote good practice   Reflect on for  your revalidation   Promote your professional development   Contribute to good patient care   Key Resources for Nurses   Oxford Medicine Online for Nurses : Get essential texts to support nursing practice across a wide range of specialties   Royal Marsden Manual Online for Nurses : use this easy to read format for advice and support about nursing procedures   Journals for Nurses : find out what key nursing journals you can access   Stay up-to-date with the latest nursing journals published by the RCN : register for updates on research and professional development sent straight to your inbox   Register with KnowledgeShare to stay up-to-date with key evidence for your specialist topics   For lin...