Health Library News

We have updated our page about the Health Library on the UHNM intranet. If you work for UHNM and have access to the intranet you'll find our page in the Learning, Education and Widening Participation section . You'll only be able to view the page from the UHNM intranet. Here is a screen-shot of the page: Screen-shot of the Health Library page on the UHNM intranet You'll find plenty of help to get you to our resources and online services quickly.

We have updated our online form that allows you to request a journal article inter-library loan . We will be moving all our forms to a new platform. Hopefully this will make the forms clearer and easier to use. If you would like to make any comment about the new forms you can do so via our Contact Us form.

NHS IT KCom will be completing some work in the Library tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd July. There may be some disruption to our users. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Our Clinical Effectiveness Librarian works with the Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership to provide the evidence supporting the guidelines. The Bedside Clinical Guidelines provide assistance for the consistent, evidence-based management of patients in acute hospital settings. They are published by The Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership and are used within the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM). There are 7 titles in total. All are available as ebooks via the UHNM Intranet: Emergency Medicine guidelines Medical guidelines Neonatal guidelines Nursing guidelines Obstetric guidelines Paediatric guidelines Surgical guidelines   We also hold print copies of the following: Neonatal guidelines (2017-19) Obstetric guidelines (2017-19) Paediatric guidelines (2016-18) A number of guideline sets are also available to Keele students on specific reading lists, via Keele’s KLE. You can find out more about this set of guideline...

From Keele IT : Due to essential IT maintenance taking place this Saturday (20 July), all IT systems are subject to potential disruption throughout the day.  Work is being carried out to upgrade operating systems and servers all day on Saturday, and unfortunately IT Services cannot guarantee that University systems hosted by these servers will be available.  This work could affect all systems used across the University, including (but not limited to) the finance system, Keele People, SCIMS, Blackboard, Gmail, and TopDesk.  Maintenance on Blackboard will begin on Friday, so disruption is likely to begin from 10pm on Friday. Maintenance on other systems will begin around 6am on Saturday. The work is being completed on a Saturday in order to cause minimal disruption to our staff and students.  IT Services does however apologise if you are affected by systems being unavailable due to this maintenance.  All systems should be back up and running from Sunday morning.

The library provides access to a range of bibliographic databases, clinical search engines, point of care tools, full-text ejournals and ebooks via the library website. Search our databases and tools to find the latest or best evidence to support your decisions for patient care or improving services. You’ll find a full list of resources on  our healthcare resources page . Get Access: Register for an NHS Athens username / password  so that you can access our databases and full-text resources. We manage Athens access locally and help you to maintain your username. UHNM Values:

We're here to support NHS staff and Keele University staff and students. Last quarter we helped you by: Completing 52 literature searches for you, so supporting evidence-based healthcare decisions. You can request a Literature Search online . Supplying 111 Inter-library Loans, allowing you to access full-text articles not available within our collections. Request an inter-library loan for an article by completing our online form . Helping 98 people register for an NHS OpenAthens account so that they can access articles, ejournals, databases and ebooks. Fill out the online form and get started using your openathens username to access online resources. Delivering 123 training sessions to help users to use our resources and develop their literature searching skills. Improve your information skills - book a training session online . Infographic displaying the quarterly statistics listed above For more help ask at the Library or  check out our website .

The Health Library and Library, Education and Resource Centre support the UHNM Values: Commitment to quality of care Working together for patients   We facilitate access to the literature and evidence UHNM staff use to inform their decisions for the care of patients and improvements to services, with our: Literature search service Literature searching training courses and e-tutorials Provision of access to literature databases, and point of care information tools Dynamed and Clinical Key . UHNM values:

Patient Voices Collection We have added some new titles to our Patient Voices collection. You can learn how patients cope with long term conditions, sudden trauma and mental health issues. Montage of Book Covers from the Patient Voices Collection Come along to browse through the collection in the Library rotunda or browse online via Library Search. Books in the Patient Voices collection are available to borrow on a standard loan; DVDs are available on a 7 day loan.

This week is Health Information Week. Come along to the Library to see our display board in the rotunda. You'll learn about lots of information resources as well as our Patient Voices collection. Photo of the Health Information Week display board

Health Information Week is an annual campaign to improve access to health information. Staff from local authorities, public libraries, NHS, voluntary sector, independent information and advice centres have all been working together to make their health resources more available to the public. In most areas your local libraries and information centres will have extra health information available, leaflets for you to take away or sessions to show you how to use the computer to find good quality health information. For more information about Health Information week, please visit the Knowledge for Healthcare Website: http://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/patient-and-public-information/health-information-week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES    For anyone interested in improving access to health information and the communication of information, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists belo...

We’ve released new training dates for our training programme. Have a look at the training opportunities available at the Health Library this Summer. We can help you to develop your skills so that you can find the evidence to support decision-making and patient care. Our courses include opportunities to: Get help finding the right information via the Internet Learn how to conduct a literature search and use our databases to get information quickly Find high-level good quality systematic reviews and evidence summaries using the Cochrane Library and similar resources Start to develop your critical appraisal skills Get to grips with Refworks (Keele only) Our courses are free, provide lots of hands-on opportunities and are usually completed in 1 to 2 hours. Why not book online now , or contact our training team .

If you don't get chance to come into the library for a training course, remember that we also have online learning opportunities. You can complete our etutorials to learn more about how to use our resources or develop you own information searching skills. Sign-up to our Information Skills for Health blog and get hints, tips, videos, demos and instructions to help you to get the most out of the library. Getting Started eTutorials Get started with our most popular resources such as journals and databases, learn what articles are and how you can find full-text. Tutorials are available for both Keele and NHS users. Information Skills eTutorials Developing your information skills is an important aspect of studying and working. These are skills which will help you to identify, find, evaluate and manage the information that you need so that you can effectively and efficiently find the right material for your studies and work. Completing our Information Skills etutorials wil...

BNF (British Nutrition Foundation) Healthy Eating Week is a dedicated week in the year to encourage organisations across the UK (including workplaces, universities, and schools) to focus on healthy eating and drinking, and physical activity, and celebrate healthy living. At the heart of BNF Healthy Eating Week are five health challenges: ●        Have breakfast ●        Have 5 A DAY ●        Drink plenty ●        Get active ●        Sleep well - NEW for 2019 It is particularly important to promote healthy lifestyles within workplaces as it is not only beneficial to employees but employers too! Approximately 131 million working days are lost to sickness absence and 200,000 due to insufficient sleep in the UK each year. Additionally, around 1 in 6 employees in the UK currently experience mental health problems. For more inf...

UHNM is hosting a staff wellbeing day today, 10 am - 3 pm, in the main restaurant at Royal Stoke University Hospital. Various stands will include: Heartfulness Meditation Pure Gym Carers Hub Team Prevent Nuffield Health Macmillan Centre EST Plan – Will writing PHE Stoke Cancer Prevention team Staffordshire Sight Loss association Smoking Cessation Living streets Yoga, Pilates and Massage Simply Health UHNM Emergency Department Wellbeing Team Also at the Academy between 10 am and 3 pm, you can sample wellbeing classes, or have a health check. See information on the UHNM intranet for more details about the classes and how to book onto them.

The location for UHNM's staff wellbeing day on 7th June has changed. It will now be held in the main restaurant at Royal Stoke University Hospital, 10 am - 3 pm. Various stands will include: Heartfulness Meditation Pure Gym Carers Hub Team Prevent Nuffield Health Macmillan Centre EST Plan – Will writing PHE Stoke Cancer Prevention team Staffordshire Sight Loss association Smoking Cessation Living streets Yoga, Pilates and Massage Simply Health UHNM Emergency Department Wellbeing Team Also at the Academy between 10 am and 3 pm, you can sample wellbeing classes, or have a health check. See information on the UHNM intranet for more details about the classes and how to book onto them.

All the Keele online resources most suitable to help our midwifery students are available from one web page – the Midwifery Databases page . You’ll find easy access routes to searchable databases and our online collections. Screen-shot of the Midwifery Databases page Here you will find links to: Core Databases – the essential databases to support midwifery topics Social Sciences Databases – additional databases if you are looking at wider topics Other Healthcare Resources – useful freely available online resources Books / eBooks – links to Library Search and major medications references Journals / eJournals – A-Z journals list to help you to check whether you have full-text access to the articles you find Mobile Essentials for Keele – mobile friendly websites and apps that help you to access specialist resources on the go Training & Tools – links to training opportunities and online learning Help & Guidance – find out more about how we can help you

UHNM is hosting a staff wellbeing day on Friday 7th June 2019, 10 am - 3 pm, in the Boardroom of the Springfield Building, Royal Stoke University Hospital. Various stands will include: Heartfulness Meditation Pure Gym Carers Hub Team Prevent Nuffield Health Macmillan Centre EST Plan – Will writing PHE Stoke Cancer Prevention team Staffordshire Sight Loss association Smoking Cessation Living streets Yoga, Pilates and Massage Simply Health UHNM Emergency Department Wellbeing Team Also at the Academy between 10 am and 3 pm, you can sample wellbeing classes, or have a health check. See information on the UHNM intranet for more details about the classes and how to book onto them.

All the Keele online resources most suitable to help our medical students are available from one web page – the Medical Databases page . You’ll find easy access routes to searchable databases and our online collections. Screen-shot of the Medical Databases page Here you will find links to: Books / eBooks – links to Library Search and major medications references Journals / eJournals – A-Z journals list to help you to check whether you have full-text access to the articles you find Core Databases – the essential databases to support medicine topics Additional Databases – additional databases if you are looking at wider topics Other Useful Resources – useful freely available online resources Help & Guidance – find out more about how we can help you Getting Started eTutorials – learn how to use our most popular resources Information Skills eTutorials – develop your information skills so that you can complete literature searching effectively Mobile Essentials fo...

All the Keele online resources most suitable to help our nursing students are available from one web page – the Nursing Databases page . You’ll find easy access routes to searchable databases and our online collections. Screen-shot of the Nursing Databases page Here you will find links to: Core Nursing Databases – the essential databases to support nursing topics Social Science Databases – additional databases if you are looking at wider topics Other Healthcare Resources – useful freely available online resources Books / eBooks – links to Library Search and major medications references Journals / eJournals – A-Z journals list to help you to check whether you have full-text access to the articles you find Mobile Essentials for Keele – mobile friendly websites and apps that help you to access specialist resources on the go Training & Tools – links to training opportunities and online learning Help & Guidance – find out more about how we can help you