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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. Reg...

 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 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: childre...

 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.

 When you want to start looking for information you need a clear idea in your mind of the question you are trying to answer. Start your literature search plan by analysing your question. This will help you to identify all the different elements that you need to consider and give focus to your search. And we can help you to develop the skills to do that. Complete our short online tutorials to learn more about analysing your question: 1. Start with Identify your Question to learn about some of the ways you can breakdown an assignment question. 2. Learn about Using PICO to help you to analyse and create clinical questions. Try the quiz to have a go yourself at creating a clinical question. 3. Find More Analysis Tools which will give you pointers about how to breakdown questions looking at different aspects of healthcare. More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills web page on the Health Library website . Read more of our  blogs loo...

Learn how to use Health Library resources for research, studies and to improve your clinical practice. We have some new courses available for UHNM staff. NHS KNOWLEDGE AND LIBRARY HUB The Knowledge and Library Hub let's you search multiple healthcare resources including NHS Core content and UHNM subscribed resources. This includes searching for the full text of journal articles and a brief look at databases and point of care tools such as BMJ Best Practice. LITERATURE SEARCHING IN MEDLINE DATABASE This 1 to 1 session focuses on searching the medicine databases for health literature. This session includes running and saving a search, accessing full text journals and where to search next. SEARCHING THE COCHRANE LIBRARY FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS This brief 1 to 1 session will show you how to conduct and search in Cochrane Library and save your results. CLINICAL KEY The clinical search engine for ebooks, ejournals, clinical overviews, topic summaries, video...

As healthcare workers you make decisions based on evidence. Whether you are presenting arguments in an assignment, discussing changing practice, researching a new intervention or deciding on the best patient care, you need the best evidence to help you. To find the best evidence you need to use your information skills, so that you can gather the best information as efficiently and effectively as possible. Developing a literature search plan will remind you of the steps to follow and help you to be systematic in your searching. We can help you to develop your skills and set you on the right path to completing your literature search, to find the information you need. Try these tutorials to get started with literature searching: 1. Complete our tutorial Introduction to Literature Searching . Follow these steps to start your literature search plan. Print out your completed plan at the end. 2. Save a template Search Plan . Use this plan to prompt you to think about your search t...

 Use your digital skills to find the right information that you need for your assignments, studies, work, research and patient care. The Health Library also helps you to find the right information that you need for your assignments, studies, work, research and patient care. We’ve got resources to support your skills development, resources to give you the right information and experience to help you to find the right path to achieve success in your information searching. Here’s a quick introduction to the facilities, services and resources you can access at the Health Library: Get to know the Health Library 1. Watch the Health Library video for a brief overview of how we support our users 2. Complete our tutorial Using the Health Library for a photo-tour and more information about our facilities and services. Find out more from your induction tutorial We have a number of inductions to help our different user groups get started at the Health Library NHS Library Ind...

 We are excited to announce that the Health Library is offering a new, comprehensive training session on the Clinical Key database. This training session is for UHNM staff and is designed and tailored to meet your needs. We are flexible in accommodating your preferences. Training is available via: face-to-face sessions online interactive training via MS Teams delivered in your department For any questions, more information or to book a session, please contact Olga Wronecki, the UHNM liaison librarian, at olga.wronecki@uhnm.nhs.uk

 Digital skills can support you in your studies and work and life! Information skills are a group of digital skills that help you to find the right, good quality information you need to complete your studies, research, work, professional development and ultimately help you to deliver best patient care. So, what skills do you need and can you tell if you have them? Here’s how we can help you to find out: 1. Watch our video What are digital skills? for an overview of what the skills are and how the Health Library can support you. 2. Watch our video Introduction to Information Skills to learn about the specific skills that will help you to find good quality information. 3. Complete our tutorial Check your skills to check if you are an effective searcher. What do you think of our tutorials? Please let us know if you find our etutorials and videos to be useful by completing our feedback form . More eTutorials Find all our online tutorials on the Information Skills w...

 You live, work and study in a digital world. You need the right skills to maximise your potential to achieve success in your studies, work and for your patients. The Health Library can help you to: develop your digital skills demonstrate your skills for your course, revalidation, appraisals and professional development deliver increased productivity, improved quality and best patient care Digital skills are described in a number of ways and have changed over time. Here are some of the ways we can help you to develop, demonstrate and deliver: Information Skills Complete our etutorials to develop your skills to find, interpret, evaluate, manage and share information. Learning Skills Complete our etutorials to learn in a technology-rich environment. They offer you flexible learning when you need it and include video, audio and interactive content. ICT Skills Use our digital content to demonstrate your digital skills, including ebooks, searchable databases and ...