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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.

Keele Library Latest: Virtual bookshelf

Information Skills for Health: Problems with the Proquest database on UHNM networ... : The Proquest database provides NHS athens users with access to ejournals and articles on the Medline and PsychInfo databases. We are curre...

Both SSoTP and UHNM staff can access the Royal Marsden Manual Online via their Athens username / password. 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 .

Want to share an unusual clinical case, complication or diagnosis? Then you can submit your own BMJ Case Report. BMJ Case Reports  are available to UHNM staff. The Health Library subscription includes the opportunity not only for you to access full-text of published content but also for you to submit your own cases. You can find more information on  our BMJ Case Reports support page .

If you are embarking on a placement or elective in November / 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 your account on Library Search.

We are holding a Foodbank Collection appeal at the Health Library, between November and Christmas.  If you would like to make a donation, there is a display and a basket in the Health Library to deposit your item(s). Deposit items at the display in the library The items collected will be donated to the Newcastle-Staffs Foodbank, which is a part of the Trussell Trust. The Foodbank does amazing work, providing 3 days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to them in crisis. To learn more about their work, visit newcastlestaffs.foodbank.org.uk . Any donation would be a huge help, although the Foodbank has particular shortages of: Long Life Juice Long Life Milk Tinned Rice Pudding Tinned Fruit Tinned/Packet Custard Tinned/Packet Potatoes Tinned Meat - ham/corned beeef/etc Jam Biscuits Chocolates Toiletries - shampoo/shower gel/toothpaste/deodorants) Your help will be greatly appreciated by the Foodbank. Thank ...

So that’s the end of our series of blogs about Library Essentials for Students. If you think there is something we missed then do let us know. Meanwhile stay in touch with this blog and our sister blog Information Skills for Health to learn in more depth about the services and resources that you can use, and the skills you can develop, to help you on your course.

What is it? The Information Skills for Health blog is an online blog created by the Health Library. It aims to help all or any of our users to develop skills to support evidence-based practice, continuous professional development (CPD), revalidation and ultimately patient care. We post items to the blog such as: Information about our resources Tips and Tricks for finding the best information Latest news about healthcare resources Step-by-step instructions on how to use our popular resources Tips on how to literature search effectively Micro-learning opportunities to develop your skills How can it help you? You can sign-up to receive new blog items in your inbox. This blogs aims to help you to develop your skills and find the best quality information to support your work and studies. How do you access it? The Information Skills for Health blog is freely available online.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the name for a group of lung conditions that cause breathing difficulties. It includes: emphysema – damage to the air sacs in the lungs and chronic bronchitis – long-term inflammation of the airways. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the 3 rd leading cause of death in the United States. The disease kills more than 120,000 Americans each year—that’s 1 death every 4 minutes—and causes serious, long-term disability. The number of people with COPD is increasing. More than 12 million people are diagnosed with COPD and an additional 12 million likely have the disease and don’t even know it. Therefore this November, the title of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s national awareness and education campaign is COPD Learn More Breathe Better. RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES   For anyone studying the importance of improving knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from COPD, the Health Library off...

What are they? The Health Library etutorials are online learning opportunities to help you to develop your skills and use our resources. There are 2 strands: Getting Started etutorials – to help you to get to grips with our major resources Information Skills etutorials – to help you to develop your information searching skills Our etutorials include: Interactive elements Quizzes Multi-media such as audio and videos Mobile-friendly, adaptable interface Availability 24/7 Most of our etutorials include a reflection document that you can complete and save. Whilst some allow you to print or save action plans / feedback. How can they help you? Our etutorials offer you alternative learning opportunities to help you to develop your skills or learn how to use our resources. They also help you to consolidate skills developed in our training sessions. How do you access them? The Health Library etutorials are freely available on the Internet, via the Healt...

Keele Library Latest: New books added to stock on October : The Library continues to add new books to stock all year round. Lists of the new books for October are below: Campus Library Health Lib...

Keele Library Latest: Dawsonera ebooks move to Adobe Digital Editions fo... : Dawsonera have rolled out the use of Adobe Digital Editions for downloading their ebooks onto a device such as a laptop or PC. The most co...

If you are looking for good quality, healthcare-based resources then head over to our Information Skills for Health blog , and follow our Resource of the Week .

What is it? As well as providing you with training sessions booked by your tutor you can also book individually on our training courses delivered throughout the year. Our training programme includes courses such as: Health Library Induction Plus – you can learn about good quality online resources as well as get a reminder about the Health Library resources Literature Searching – learn how to create a search plan and apply it to the healthcare-specific ebsco databases to get articles for your projects Evidence-based Databases – learn where to get the best high-level evidence from Critical Appraisal – our critical appraisal courses help you to start to develop your skills in appraising articles RefWorks – learn how to use RefWorks to keep track of all your references How can it help you? Our training courses are designed to help you to further develop your information searching skills and improve your literature searching. All our sessions involve hands-on prac...