Royal Marsden presentation

We recently received a presentation outlining the features of the Royal Marsden online manual.

From the academic representative, here is an overview of the presentation:

1.       Overview of product

2.       How to browse

3.       How to search

4.       Linking from References (how articles link to CrossRef and PubMed)

5.       Help (online help to get the most out of the product)

6.       Administration (for lecturers)

a.       Content management: how to – add your own procedure guidelines, edit your own procedure guidelines, add comments to a procedure guideline, global instructions (how to add them).

You can download a copy of the presentation if you wish.

New research book

For those engaged with research and evidence based practice you may like to take a look at a new book in the Learning Centre.

Cutcliffe, J. and Ward, M.  (2007)  Critiquing nursing research. 2nd ed, London: Quay Books.
Shelf mark 610.73072/CUT

Although this book is biased to mental health, it takes each of the methodologies of how to critique the nursing literature and evaluates them (Burns and Groves,  Morrisons,  Ryan-Wenger, Polit and Hungler, and Polit, Beck and Hungler).  Each chapter identifies the method of critique and includes a worked example, plus the strengths and weaknesses of each model.

Nursing Times website

Nursing Times logo

Did you know the popular weekly journal Nursing Times has a website?

Nursing Times is the UK’s leading independent nursing weekly magazine. We publish original nursing research and a host of clinical articles for nurses at all stages in their career, as well as professional and clinical news and opinions. We also bring you the best selection of nursing jobs.

You can access much of the material from the print version on the Nursing Times website for free. Some articles are summarised so you may still wish to read the full article in print (we have copies of the latest Nursing Times at Burton, Walsall and Wolverhampton Learning Centres), or you can take out a personal subscription via the website if you want your own copy (there’s an offer for students at the moment to get 12 copies for £12). There are also job listings on the website, as well as a community area with forums, blogs and debates.

Royal Marsden Clinical Nursing Procedures available online

Royal Marsden Clinical Nursing Procedures

As mentioned earlier on the blog, we have recently paid for online access to the Royal Marsden Clinical Nursing Procedures (you will need to log in with your IT account if accessing off campus). This is now available and ready to use – you can get to it from the above link or from the Databases A-Z page.

You can search across the whole resource for a particular procedure, or you can browse by topics which match the chapters in the print book. Browsing enables you to go directly to specific content, procedures, or figures. You can also download figures (for example if you would like to use them in your assignment).

We hope you enjoy using this new resource! 🙂

Happy International Nurses Day!

Today (12th May, anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth) is International Nurses Day to celebrate and remember all the valuable contributions nurses make to society.

This year’s theme is Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Care Innovations.

You can also read more information about International Nurses Day and share your news stories via the School of Health International Nurses Day web page.

New clinical practice resources

We’ve just received details of two new evidence-based resources which can be used in clinical practice to diagnose and provide information on conditions.

CKS

http://cks.library.nhs.uk

The Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) are an online source of practical, evidence-based and up-to-date knowledge about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care. CKS covers around 200 ‘top-level’ clinical topics on common acute and chronic illnesses and disease prevention, and provides information on how to manage more than 500 clinical situations or scenarios. Each topic is structured around real-life clinical questions about management, diagnosis, complications, prognosis, incidence/prevalence, risk factors and causes.

DynaMed™

http://cks.library.nhs.uk/dynamed

This clinical reference tool was created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point of care. With clinically-organized summaries for thousands of topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Based on the results of a study published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005), not only did primary care clinicians answer more clinical questions with access to DynaMed than without DynaMed, but these clinicians also found more answers in DynaMed that changed clinical decisions.

Health E-News Bulletin – January 2009

Please find attached a link to the Health E-News Bulletin produced by St. Helen’s Health Improvement Library.

Reuters Health Database

The subscription for the Reuters Health Database is due for renewal at the end of  January 2009.   Looking at the usage statistics, 310 accesses for the February 2008-December 2008 period and the cost of £4,900 per year, the department will not be renewing the subscription.

Study Skills Bookmark Links

The Learning Centres have just launched a one-stop link for all things “Study Skills” on the social networking bookmark delicious.com. The link is http://delicious.com/LISStudySkills .  You will also find a link from the Study Skills pages of the Learning Centre webpges.

Here you will find useful tip sheets covering writing, grammar, IT, and numeracy skills. A majority of the links are University of Wolverhampton owned, but we have cherry-picked some sites from other HE institutions.

To access the sheets:

– link to delicious

– then click on the bookmark option

– on the right-hand side you will see a list of tags

– scroll down the page – click the tag you want to view

– all the links will then be displayed for that topic in the centre of the screen

– click the header to link to the full text guide/tip sheet

We welcome feedback and contributions to the pages.

Wendy Haynes hours

Just to let you all know that Wendy is changing her hours from Monday 19th January 2009.  She will now be available at Harrison Learning Centre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.