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The Oxford Handbooks are very popular titles. Here at the Health Library we provide you with online access to some titles so that you don’t have to wait to access the full-text. Titles available include: Oxford handbook... for the Foundation Programme of Clinical Diagnosis of Clinical Examinations and Practical Skills of Clinical Haematology of Clinical Specialities of Clinical Surgery of Critical Care of Dialysis of Endocrinology & Diabetes of General Practice of Geriatric Medicine of Neurology of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of Paediatrics of Psychiatry of Respiratory Medicine of Urology eBooks are accessible via the Internet, are available 24/7 and don’t incur any fines. You can find out how to use our ebooks via our Using eBooks etutorial.

If you are embarking on an elective in the next few weeks, to ensure you do not incur any fines it is advisable to return your books to the library before starting your placement. Students are welcome to continue to borrow items, but please be aware that normal requirements to renew items, and the possibility that items will be recalled or fines incurred for late return/renewal, will still apply.

The Health & Social Care Information Centre maintains a number of resources based on data and technology. You can find statistics and reports relating to a range of specific conditions and services . Popular topics include community care, hospital care, patient experience and prescribing. You can also search for particular data.

Keele University IT will be conducting maintenance on Saturday August 3 rd . This will affect many of the core IT services and some temporary disruption will occur. Services affected all or in part include:  SCIMS  KLE  Hallsnet   Library PC facilities  User filestore  Any University based web service, including the University web site  Printing Services which should not be affected  Gmail and GoogleApps   Internet access The disruption should be confined to the period between 09:00 and 16:00 on that day. Apologies for the disruption and any inconvenience caused. If you have any queries please contact the IT Service Desk ( it.service@keele.ac.uk )

The BMA is a membership organisation that represents doctors and acts as a trade union and professional body. It also includes help and support for career development and works with other organisations to ensure that members concerns are raised regarding relevant health-related issues. You can keep up-to-date via a range of news feeds , including blogs and more in-depth analysis .

The 6Cs are the core values and behaviours that NHS staff are expected to follow, and support the new vision and strategy for nursing, midwifery and care. See NHS England for more info and video. The 6Cs are:   :: care :: compassion :: competence ::  :: communication :: courage :: commitment :: If you want to do some background reading on these concepts you can try the books in this short reading list: Challenges and Solutions: narratives of patient-centred care (Brown et al, 2012) Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing (Bach and Grant, 2011) Communication in Nursing (Riley, 2012) Compassion and Caring in Nursing (Chambers, 2009) ebook Compassion, Caring and Communication SKills for Nursing Practice (Baughan, 2013) Dignity in Healthcare: a practical approach for nurses and midwives (Matiti and Baillie, 2011) Emotional Intelligence in Health and Social Care: a guide for improving human relationships (Hurley and Linsley, 2012) Excellence in Compa...

We have updated and improved our etutorials. Improvements include: more audio commentary summary pages updated videos updated images We have a range of etutorials to help you to get started with our resources and develop your information skills. You can find more information here. If you have any ideas for new etutorials that we could develop then let us know .

As you are gathering research for your topics you need to consider the quality of that research and how it applies to the question you are trying to find an answer to. Your question may relate to an assignment, dissertation, guidance development or patient care. To help you to appraise research you can use the CASP website . This is the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Here you will find resources to help you to develop your critical appraisal skills. There is a section which explains the steps you need to go through as you are carrying out your research – Find, Appraise, Act You will also find a list of Checklists relating to different types of studies such as Randomised Controlled Trials Systematic Reviews Cohort Studies Case-Control Studies Qualitative Studies Economic Evaluations Diagnostic Studies These give you a number of questions that you need to ask yourself about the articles that you are finding. Determining whether you can identify the answe...

If you have used RefWorks during your time at Keele University you can retain access as an alumni. You might find this a useful tool to support your professional development during your career in the NHS. You can get instructions on how to set up an alumni RefWorks account, and transfer your Keele account, from Scott McGowan. Please email him at s.mcgowan@keele.ac.uk

The way to log on to Wiley ejournals has changed for our NHS users.   Remember to start looking for a journal title using the NHS journal list . You will find all our NHS-subscribed journals here, including the holdings we have and any special instructions about the journal. Screen-shot of the ejournal Anaesthesia presented in the journals list You can also come across journal articles within Wiley titles by using the HDAS databases search facility. Here the link will take you to the article in question but you may need to log in to Wiley to get to the full-text. Screen-shot of articles found in the journal Anaesthesia in an HDAS search To get to the full-text in Wiley: Once you have clicked the link in the NHS interface you will be taken to the Wiley website. If you are not presented with the full-text then: Click the “institution login” link at the top right-hand-side   Screen-shot of the Wiley website; the login link you need is in the...

Campus library have updated the login page that you use to login to your library account to renew your books. Screen-shot of Updated Login Page Keele University staff and students should use the boxes on the left and should enter their computer username and password. Our NHS users should use the boxes on the right and should still use their name and library card number. If anyone experiences any problems please let Campus library or the Health Library know.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. Titles include: Clinical radiation oncology / edited by Leonard L. Gunderson and Joel E. Tepper Complications in surgery / edited by Michael W. Mulholland and Gerard M. Doherty Critical care nursing: diagnosis and management / Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Mary E. Lough Engaging patients in healthcare / Angela Coulter Expert psychiatric evidence / Keith J.B. Rix Inherited cardiac disease / edited by Perry Elliott, Pier D. Lambiase, Dhavendra Kumar. Medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability / Donna R. Falvo Medical neurobiology / Peggy Mason Radiobiology for the radiologist / Eric J. Hall and Amato J. Giaccia Spiritual care for healthcare professionals : reflecting on clinical practice / Tom Gordon, Ewan Kelly, and David Mitchell New eBooks: ABC of eating disorders / edited by Jane Morris Clinical anaesthesia / Carl Gwinnu...

The Cinahl database is the C umulative I ndex to N ursing and A llied H ealth L iterature. It holds the bibliographic records of thousands of journals giving you access to many full-text articles and specialises in nursing and allied health related topics. You can search across the database to find information about the topics you are researching.There are lots of features to help you to focus your search, including: Subject headings Patient focus limits like patient age or gender Date limit feature to limit to the date range that you need Publication type selection – for example so that you can concentrate on reviews, controlled trials or case reports and so on Search history to allow you to view your previous searches Search combinations to combine your searches using AND or OR to increase the focus of your search or expand your search to include more elements You can find all the bibliographic information about the articles retrieved such as author, journal title, yea...

Click here to access the bulletin This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.