Finding Evidence Based-Information

                                                                                                                                         

Finding Evidence Based-Information

To support your practice and revalidation

The session will enable delegates to develop good navigation and searching skills to locate evidence to support patient care and CPD.

Specific areas where this might help with revalidation include:

·  Effectively locating articles to support your CPD and reflective practice/writing

· Enquiry based research – finding information/evidence for specific patient care

· Athens Accounts to access publications for reading and reviewing

Session length: 2 hours

Certificate of Attendance for your portfolio showing the learning outcomes related to “The Code” and RCN Principles

Alexandra Hospital Library Training Room, Education Centre	Tuesday 26th April 1.30pm – 3.30pm Thursday 28th April 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Kidderminster General Hospital IT Training room, Education Centre	Monday 9th May 1.30pm – 3.30pm Wednesday 11th May 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Charles Hastings Education Centre IT Training room	Thursday 26th May 1.30pm – 3.30pm Thursday 2nd June 9.00pm – 11.00am

Booking only – IT password, Athens password and library registration a prerequisite to booking

Contact David Chamberlain David.Chamberlain2@nhs.net  01527 505773

Or wah-tr.ALX-Library@nhs.net 01527 505770

Free articles have now ended

Free February & March have now ended.


Our pricing will go back to its normal structure below:

• Articles from West Midlands: £1.00 each

• Articles from RSM: £2.50 each

• Articles from British Library: £2.50 each

• Book Loans from RSM: Free

• Book Loans from British Library: £6.50

If you have an article request(s) feel free to send them to us!


WRH
wah-tr.WRH-RowlandsLibrary@nhs.net

ALX
wah-tr.ALX-Library@nhs.net

KTC
wah-tr.KTC-Healthlibrary@nhs.net

Free February...EXTENDED!

FREE FEBRUARY HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!
For the month of MARCH Worcestershire Health Libraries are providing your journal articles for free*
Request your articles via:

WRH
Rowlands.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk

ALX
Alex.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk

KTC
KHL@worcsacute.nhs.uk


OR

Our website
www.wkp.nhs.uk
Click request an article/book

*Free articles will be subject to the British Library having a copy of the requested article/journal, it is likely they will have but we cannot guarantee it.

TRIP Premium

NHS staff now have access to the premium version of TRIP for one year.

The Trip Premium offering takes an already wonderful – and free – version of Trip and makes it even better.  With more content, more functionality, no adverts and more, it really makes the Trip experience even better.

More Content

1. Over 100,000 extra systematic reviews than the free version
2. Millions of extra free full-text articles
3. Easily search over 175,000 ongoing clinical trials
4. Access to a massive database of medical images
5. Access to tens of thousands of clinical videos

More functionality

1. Export of records to reference management software
2. The ability to easily exclude certain content types (e.g. eTextbooks)
3. Trip educational credits
4. Article views, see which articles are most popular for your search

FREE February

For the month of February Worcestershire Health Libraries are providing your journal articles for free*
Request your articles via:

WRH
Rowlands.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk

ALX
Alex.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk

KTC
KHL@worcsacute.nhs.uk


OR

Our website
www.wkp.nhs.uk
Click request an article/book

*Free articles will be subject to the British Library having a copy of the requested article/journal, it is likely they will have but we cannot guarantee it.

Palliative Care Awareness Day

Palliative Care Awareness Day – Thursday 4^th February 2016  10.15am – 2.30pm

Worcestershire Health Libraries, in partnership with the University of Worcester, are holding a Palliative Care awareness day on World Cancer day. The Palliative Care Event at The Hive will take place on Thursday, February 4 and will look at the work of local hospices, children’s hospices, future planning and where to go for help and information. 

It has been organised in conjunction with the University of Worcester’s Centre for Palliative Care Research, which is run in partnership with St Richard’s Hospice. It will involve various speakers from the NHS and other hospices and is aimed at demystifying what care for life-limiting illnesses involves. 

The event will be held at The Hive, Worcester, with talks from representatives of:

• University of Worcester’s Centre of Palliative Care research

• St. Richard’s Hospice

• Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Also included will be information on the following local and national services:

• Acorns Hospice

• Macmillan Information service

• Primrose Hospice

• Worcestershire Health Libraries – evidence-based information

This event is aimed at anyone with an interest in end of life care.

Refreshments will be provided. This is a free event.

For further information please contact David Chamberlain 01527 505773 david.chamberlain@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Or to reserve a seat go to http://www.thehiveworcester.org/whats-on

and follow “Special events” link

Power interruption at Rowlands Library

Saturday 23rd January 2016

There will be an interruption of power at the Rowlands Library (WRH) on Saturday 23rd January 2016. This will be from 9am to 1pm. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.
 
Regards
Library Team