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More training options to develop your digital skills

 During the past couple of months we have showcased some of our online tutorial options to help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver your digital skills, so supporting your work and studies. We also have a range of in-person training delivered by our experienced, qualified librarian team. For more information about the courses and workshops they deliver, either face-to-face or online, whether in groups or as personal sessions, please see our training pages: Courses for Keele students Courses for NHS community staff Courses for UHNM staff If you need any other help you can contact the training team . Remember our online eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

Evidently Cochrane blog ending

 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

Stay up-to-date with updates in your field

 Healthcare is a regularly changing industry and a plethora of content is published every year. Staying up-to-date, or managing your current awareness, whether for your professional regulations, current practice or keeping up with the latest research is an important element of your work and studies. You can use your digital skills to stay up-to-date and manage the increasing amount of new information. Learn more about staying up-to-date and the tools you can use by completing our etutorials: What is current awareness? And why do you need it Current awareness tools Learn more about the tools you can use to stay up-to-date Introduction to KnowledgeShare Watch this video for an overview of KnowledgeShare for NHS staff More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

Use your digital skills to share the information you find

 Communicating information is an important information skill. You can demonstrate your digital skills by creating content based on your information search or research. This can help you to build your own professional portfolio and support your study and work. We’ve created etutorials to help you get started with 3 common routes of communication that you’ll come across. Writing an academic paper Get hints and tips on how to write an academic paper, whether for an assignment or to publish How to create an academic poster Hints and tips on what to consider and how to create your academic poster 10 steps to creating patient information Hints and tips to get you started developing your own patient information More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . Take a look at the blog posts we have published so far in this series on digital skills . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help fin

Nutrition and Hydration Week - 11th - 17th March

  Nutrition and Hydration Week takes place every March with the aim of highlighting and educating the public on the importance of good nutrition.  Its main purpose is to spark conversation and generate energy and focus around the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing in the health and social care settings. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS      Es sentials of human nutrition ; Mann, Jim; Truswell, Stewart et al; 2023 (Oxford University Press); Sixth edition [ Also available as a Keele e-book ]. Exercise physiology: nutrition, energy, and human performance ; McArdle, Willia

Make sure you use information ethically

 It is important that you recognise and credit the original creators of the information you use in your own studies and work. This is a significant aspect of your digital skills. You can do this by including references. Learn why this is so essential to your studies by completing our etutorial: Introduction to referencing and plagiarism Keele University students can also use RefWorks to help them to manage references. Complete the Keele online tutorial: Manage your references in a nutshell More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.

Is the information you find good quality?

It is important that you check the information you find from your searches to ensure that it is good quality and is relevant to your question. The Health Library can help you. Complete our tutorials to develop the right digital skills to evaluate and critically appraise the information and articles you find. 1. Start by learning about the CRAAP checklist; watch this short video 2. Learn more about how to evaluate information on the Internet by completing our tutorial Evaluating information on the Internet 3. Learn more about Critical Appraisal Tools which will help you to critically appraise the research articles that you find More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need. 

Learn to use the right resource

You need to make sure that you search the right resources to find the information you are looking for. This will mean that you don’t waste time searching irrelevant resources and your searching will be more efficient. You can develop this key digital skill by learning more about the types of resources that are available at the Health Library. Start by completing our tutorial Select the Right Resource to learn about the different types of resources you will come across. Then try our online tutorials that will help you to learn about some of our key resources. Basic Resources Start by learning about the basic resources available at the Health Library 1. Using books  Get information quickly from books 2. Using ebooks  Make the most of online books 3. What is an article?  Learn how to recognise and find academic articles 4. Finding good stuff on the Internet  Tips and tricks on using google to find healthcare information Key NHS Resources 5. Register for NHS OpenAthens

Clinical Key updates for 2023

 Clinical Key regularly updates the content it holds throughout the year. Here is a summary of new and updated content from 2023: New journals added New and updated ebooks New clinical overviews Clinical Key is a clinical search engine providing full-text access to hundreds of items, including ebooks, journals and clinical overviews. Staff at UHNM can access Clinical Key via their NHS OpenAthens username. To learn more about how to use Clinical Key complete our online tutorial Get Started with Clinical Key .

Eating Disorder Awareness Week - 26th February to 3rd March 2024

Eating Disorders Awareness Week, run by the charity BEAT, takes place every year with the aim of educating the public and providing hope and support to those affected by eating disorders. This year, the focus is on ARFID – avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder – a largely unknown and misunderstood eating disorder. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       A therapists guide to treating eating disorders in a social media age ; Frisbie, Shauna; 2020 (W.W.Norton & Company, Inc). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: children, adolescents, and adults ;

Develop your search skills with our online tutorials

 There are some key search skills you can develop to help your literature search to be more efficient and effective. These are essential skills to have to use in a wide range of different online resources, such as healthcare databases and even google scholar. Start to develop your skills by completing these online tutorials: 1. Identify your search terms  Learn how to use keywords, phrases, wildcards and truncation  2. Using a thesaurus  Learn how using a thesaurus can help you to find articles via databases 3. Combining searches with boolean operators  Use AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms 4. Applying filters to focus results  Use filters to focus your search results More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . More help Contact the Health Library if you need any help finding the information you need.