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Here is a quick reminder that we will have reduced opening hours over the Christmas holidays. Please check before you visit. Screen-shot of opening hours Merry Christmas to you all from everyone at the Health Library.

We've got a new information stand to hold our leaflets. You'll find information about the library as well as details of online resources, the latest training schedule and forms to apply for inter-library loans. Feel free to pick up a leaflet. Photo of our information stand

The Health Library can help you in many different ways. Here is an example from our NHS Outreach Service. Activity: Carried out one to one training session tailored to the needs of an occupational therapist. Topics covered were search techniques, databases, and how to access and store results. Full handouts were provided and follow up support was offered by email. The training was arranged at a time and location to suit the occupational therapist. Purpose To enable the occupational therapist to have the skills to carry out a literature search and find evidence on the treatments available for asymmetric tonic neck reflex (ATNR). This was to increase the clinician’s knowledge of a condition and possible treatments. It may also form part of a future application to carry out a Masters in the subject. For more help from the Outreach Service contact the team here . If we can help… Let us know .

Please check our reduced opening hours for the Christmas holidays before you visit. Screen-shot of opening hours

If you are feeling the stress of the festive season, just take a break - come along to the library and complete the mindfulness wall. Photo of the library mindfulness wall

The Health Library is here to support nurses completing their revalidation – whether it’s a quiet spot to gather your thoughts or help finding online articles, there is lots that we can do for you. You can find help on our support page . We are also promoting help that we find elsewhere on our Information Skills for Health blog . Try our new etutorial – Supporting NHS Staff – to learn about all the different ways the library can help you.

Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are often viewed as ‘invisible illnesses’. The mission this Awareness Week to increase understanding of Crohn’s and Colitis and ensure the true impact of these debilitating conditions is visible. Crohn’s Disease is a condition that causes inflammation of the digestive system or gut. Crohn’s can affect any part of the gut, though the most common area affected is the end of the ileum (the last part of the small intestine), or the colon. Crohn’s is a chronic condition. This means that it is ongoing and life-long, although there may beperiods of good health (remission), as well as times when symptoms are more active (relapses or flare-ups). Ulcerative Colitis is a condition that causes inflammation and ulceration of the inner lining of the rectum and colon (the large bowel). Tiny ulcers develop on the surface of the lining and these may bleed and produce pus. The inflammation usually begins in the rectum and lower colon, but it may affect the ent...

World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988. Over 100,000 people are living with HIV in the UK. Globally there are an estimated 34 million people who have the virus. Despite the virus only being identified in 1984, more than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS, making it one of the most destructive pandemics in history. Today, scientific advances have been made in HIV treatment, there are laws to protect people living with HIV and we understand so much more about the condition. Despite this, each year in the UK around 6,000 people are diagnosed with HIV, people do not know the facts about how to protect themselves and others, and stigma and discrimination remain a reality for many people living with the condition. For...

There will be reduced opening hours over the Christmas holidays. Please see our web page for more details . Screen-shot of opening hours Online resources will be available 24/7.

Non-Keele students who are on placement with our stakeholder NHS trusts can join the Health Library and benefit from our many facilities, services and resources .

Our Information Skills for Health blog can help you to develop your information skills. You’ll find tips and tricks, resource features and etutorials that will help you to use our resources to find the information you need. Check out some of our recent blog items: Clinical Key features NHS Athens tips and tricks Latest etutorials released Nursing Revalidation news Support for Literature Searching

Information Skills for Health: Support for Academic Writing : Before you start writing up your dissertation or planning your first publication have a look at our Authorship and Academic Writing page . ...

The Health Library can help nurses and midwives to achieve the RCN Competencies relating to finding, using and managing information . There are lots of ways that we can support your work. Check out our page for RCN Competencies to learn more.

If you are embarking on a placement or elective in the coming weeks or during December / January: You are welcome to continue to loan items from the library, but please be aware that normal loan periods will still apply. Items may be requested by another user and recalled.  Late return of requested items will still incur fines. Automatic renewals will run as normal, but if you wish to try to avoid having an item potentially due for return at a time when you really cannot come in, you can attempt to renew your books early via you account on Library Search.

Self-Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on establishing support for self-care across communities, families and generations. More needs to be done to support people to better look after their own health. Empowering individuals to self-care has many benefits for their short term and long term health and this is important since people are living longer. Helping people to look after their own health, and their family’s health also helps to manage demand on health services. Self-Care Week provides people-facing organisations with a focus to hold a targeted campaign to support people to take care of their health and wellbeing and improve their understanding of doing so. Self-care messages have a greater impact when they are being repeated by many voices through different mediums at the same time, making a greater impact and reaching more of the population. For more about Self-Care Week, please visit the Self Care Forum website: http://www.selfcareforum.org/e...

You can find support and e-learning opportunities online from the Health Library. If you want to get started quickly with our online resources or need to freshen up your literature search skills you can try our etutorials and videos: Easy to navigate Short bite-sized learning Interactive Multimedia Mobile-friendly Find our etutorials on ourwebsite or check out our video YouTube channel .

Many of our popular Oxford Handbooks are available online as ebooks. You can access them anytime. You’ll need your Keele computer login details or NHS Athens username for access the full-text. You’ll find a list of available titles on our website . Look on Library Search for titles and links to the full-text. Photo of Oxford Handbooks If you need more help try our short etutorial Using eBooks .

The Health Library can offer support to Keele University academic staff based in the schools of nursing, midwifery and medicine. You can: Use our online learning materials to support your students’ development of digital literacy and information skills Arrange training sessions with our training librarians either for your own CPD or to support your students development Request a literature search if you need the latest evidence as background to a topic you are investigating Suggest new stock to be purchased and held at the Health Library Investigate further support offered by the Campus Library Please check out our Academic Staff page for more information.

Normal healthy cells grow in a carefully controlled way. Pancreatic cancer develops when cells in the pancreas grow out of control, forming a tumour (a lump or growth). This can happen in the head, body or tail of the pancreas. ·        Just 4% of patients survive – it has the worst survival rate of all 22 common cancers ·        Pancreatic cancer is the fifth biggest cancer killer – 26 people die each day ·        It receives just over 1% of overall cancer research funding ·        Pancreatic cancer affects men and women equally ·        For those diagnosed in time for surgery their chance of survival increases tenfold ·        In 2013, 9,389 people were newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ·        In 2013, 8,524 people died from pancreatic cancer in the UK...

The Health Library can really help students with your studies. You can: Borrow books Access online resources such as articles, journals and ebooks Use the facilities at the library such as printing, photocopying and scanning Log on to the computers in the IT Suite Use the study areas for silent, individual or group study Complete our short online etutorials to get started with our resources Attend training sessions arranged by your tutors to help you to develop your information skills and use our resources effectively Please check out our web page for new students for more information.

Nursing staff at UHNM can access the Royal Marsden Manual Online. Here you will find: Procedures & Guidelines Images & Illustrations Searchable content Support for evidence-based practice For step-by-step instructions on how to log on read our Information Skills for Health blog entry .

The new version of HDAS has now been implemented by NICE. Please see the following information regarding what you should do… NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS switch-over date NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS training materials & migration information NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS Updates; Important Information, Act Now

There will be considerable disruption to Library Counter services from Monday 24th Oct - Wednesday 26th Oct, due to removal and installation of a new reception area. Please use the Self-Service facility for loans and returns of books. Staff will be on hand to help with any other queries and issues you may have. Apologies for any noise and disruption during this time.

All Health Library cards with bar code number beginning 508 need to be replaced. Keele University have updated a number of systems and you will need to replace your library card in order to continue using them. These include: Door access at weekends and in the evenings – the swipe access system on the side-entrance has been updated and you will need a new library card to be able to use it Photocopies and Keele printers – you will need a new card to use the photocopiers and Keele printers and pay for services Next time you visit the library please pop along to the counter to request a library card replacement.

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Information Skills for Health: NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS swi... : We have received the following information from NICE Evidence Services regarding the implementation of the new version of HDAS. Launch o...

Get medicine reference ebooks via Medicines Complete. All our users – Keele students and NHS staff- can access Medicines Complete. Keele users – log in via shibboleth using your Keele computer login details NHS staff – log in via openathens, using your NHS Athens username / password All users will be able to access the BNF and BNFc. We have purchased extra resources for Keele users as well as NHS staff at UHNM and North Staffs Combined Healthcare such as: AHFS Drug Information Handbook on Injectable Drugs Kucer’s the Use of Antibiotics Stockley’s Drug Interactions And more… The books available to you will depend on the subscription of your organisation. You can search within each book or search across titles for drug information. Screen-shot of Medicines Complete home page