Health Library News

Come along to the CEC foyer Monday 1 st June after 12 noon to find out more about the Library services and resources available within the NHS. Whether you are a student preparing for your first NHS professional post, going on placement or work for our NHS partners, come along to browse our display and have a chat with one of our librarians – learn how we can support patient care and your professional development.

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Not surprisingly you can find out how to find books in the library by checking on our website.

Are you looking for apps to help patients keep track of healthy living activities or support with long-term conditions? The NHS Choices health app library is a good place to start looking. Here you will find lists of apps reviewed by the NHS and rated by users. Types of apps listed include: Specific conditions Healthy living support Service providers Social Care Some apps are free, others are paid for or require in app purchases (ie for advanced features). Please take care to read any terms and conditions, particularly regarding use of personal data.

You can find Larkin's Vulnerable Groups in Health and Social Care at HV 1559 G7 L3. Look on the same shelf for more items on the same topic.

The Health Library will be closed for the Spring Bank Holiday 25th May. Remember that you can still access  electronic resources online .

Make sure that you understand the basics of  how to carry out a literature search. Our bite-sized etutorial Introduction to Literature Searching takes you through the fundamental 7 steps.

Are you planning to visit the Health Library? Or are you not sure where everything is? You can go to our website where we have a printable plan of the library as well as an interactive map telling you all about the different facilities, services and resources that we have. You can see our floor plan and interactive map on our website

We have updated our Social Work Current Awareness page to include the new ejournal titles we have purchased from the Oxford Medicine Collection. British Journal of Social Work Health and Social Work Social Work Social Work Research You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from these journals. Check the Social Care / Work News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

Person-centred practice is always a popular topic. Find Person Centred Practice for Professionals by Thompson et al at HV 40 T4.

The Health Library will be closed for the Spring Bank Holiday 25th May. Remember that you can still access electronic resources online .

Can our NHS Outreach Librarians help you? Find our more about the NHS Outreach Service on our website . Details about the NHS Outreach Service are on our website

If you are embarking on an elective or placement in the coming 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, normal loan periods, and the possibility that items will be recalled or fines incurred for late return/renewal, will still apply.

You can now borrow a laptop from the Health Library: Work in the rotunda Work in the silent study area Take with you to a meeting You will need your library card and a Keele IT login for wifi access; NHS users need to request a temporary login. All laptops need to be returned at least 1 hour before the library closing time.

We don't just have clinical books. You can find management topics at HD 31; find How to be an Even Better Manager: a complete A-Z of proven techniques and essentail skills by Armstrong at HD 31 A7.

Here is a pretty thorough overview of Dynamed from the Ebsco video channel: Dynamed WebEx presented by Brian Alper , including: clinical examples how evidence is selected viewing updates signing up for alerts Dynamed is available to our UHNM users via NHS Athens . The Dynamed mobile app is also available. You can get more help on using Dynamed by trying our Using Dynamed etutorial .

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out the “New Books” display in the library. New books include: Carefree calculations for healthcare students / Diana Coben and Elizabeth Atere-Roberts Emergency psychiatry / edited byKevin Nicholls Fertility counseling : clinical guide and case studies / edited by Sharon N. Covington Gerontologic nursing / edited by Sue E. Meiner Mental health nursing at a glance / Grahame Smith Oxford case histories in sleep medicine / Himender Makker, Matthew Walker, Hugh Selsick, Bhik Kotecha and Ama Johal Physical aspects of care : pain and gastrointestinal symptoms / edited by Judith A. Paice Promoting the health of school age children / edited byVal Thurtle and Jane Wright Stoelting's handbook of pharmacology and physiology in anesthetic practice / Robert K. Stoelting Stroke medicine / Hugh Markus, Anthony Pereira, Geoffrey Cloud The accidental carer : 100 tips f...

You can find all our contact details on our website - including details about our team members, our address, phone numbers, email address and online form. Example of our contact page

The Royal Marsden Manual is now available online to UHNM staff. You can access it: via the Health Library healthcare resources page , using your NHS Athens username and password via the UHNM intranet (see the Information section on the intranet home page) The Royal Marsden provides you with: Support for Evidence-based Practice Up-to-date Clinical Practice Procedures and Guidelines Easy to read format & illustrations

You can find Qualitative Data Analysis: a methods source book by Miles et al at shelfmark H 62 M4. Check H 62 for more research support.

The Health Library will be closed for the May Day Bank Holiday 4th May. Remember that you can still access  electronic resources online .