Journals’ Tables of Content Service (ToCS) from Worcestershire Health Libraries

This is an easy way to bring our printed journals to your workplace if visiting a library is difficult:
We email you a scan of the Table of Contents (ToC) from a journal:
• You have a look to see if there are any articles of interest and email us your requests (up to a maximum of 2 per issue)
• We scan the article(s) back to you

It’s as simple as that!

Here is a list of the journals that we keep in our libraries.  If you would like to receive the ToC of any of these, please contact us and we will do the rest!

 
wah-tr.wrh-rowlandslibrary@nhs.net
 
(Please note that we have access to many more journals online: for a complete list of all our journals go to Journal Full Text Finder)

 Journals for 2016

American Journal of Psychiatry	Journal of Arthroplasty
American Journal of Sports Medicine	Journal of Clinical Orthodontics
Annals of Vascular Surgery	Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Arthroscopy	Journal of Dementia Care
BJ Psychiatric Advances	Journal of One Day Surgery
BMJ	Journal of Palliative Care
British Journal of Cardiac Nursing	Journal of the American College of Cardiology
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants	Kidney International
British Journal of Psychotherapy	Lancet: Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases	Medicine
Clinical Orthopedics & Related Research	Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Clinical Risk	Oral Surgery
Clinics in Perinatology	Orthopedic Clinics of North America
European Journal of Palliative Care	Pediatric Clinics of North America
Foot and Ankle International	Pediatrics
Gastroenterology	Radiologic Clinics of North America
Geriatric Medicine	Resuscitation
Health Service Journal	Surgery
Insight	Surgical Clinics of North America
International Journal of Orthopaedic & Trauma Nursing	Survey of Ophthalmology

Finding Evidence based-Information

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

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	Monday15th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm Tuesday 16th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Kidderminster General Hospital IT Training room, Education Centre	Tuesday 2nd August 1.30pm – 3.30pm Wednesday 3rd August 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Charles Hastings Education Centre IT Training room	Friday 19th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm
POWCH Silver Birch	Tuesday 9th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm Wednesday 10th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Evesham Community Hospital Education Centre	Wednesday 17th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm Thursday 18th August 1.30pm – 3.30pm

To Book - contact David Chamberlain David.Chamberlain2@nhs.net  01527 505773

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

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

Library Training on ESR

Too busy to leave the ward? Can’t face the parking? Now you can access library training via ESR without having to come to the library. Log in to ESR go to “e-learning” and search for “Library” and select “365 Library e-learning for Worcestershire Acute” until you have an outline option- open the + sign and then chose  from the 5 modules:

• 365 Library 01 Athens Password
• 365 Library 02 Developing a Search
• 365 Library 03 Resources 
• 365 Library 04 Critical Appraisal 
• 365 Library 05 Current Awareness

All are easy to use and have a quiz.  Any queries or prefer group or 1:1 training then please contact David.Chamberlain2@nhs.net 01527 505773

Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy – set up and facilitated by Worcestershire health Libraries on two psychiatric wards

Bibliotherapy is the use of fiction and poetry to support and increase positive outcomes for people with mental health and wellbeing issues.  

Benefits include:

• alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety

• increase self-esteem and  improve social skills and concentration

David Chamberlain  (Lead Librarian, Service Development) set up a reading group with Psychiatric Nursing and Occupational Therapy support on two Older Adult Psychiatric Wards. Both ran for 10 weeks, with themed topics and there were over 80 participants. It was so successful the same model was run on a different hospital site and the group is planned to run yearly.

Comments from patients include:

“Re-kindled my passion for reading”

“We’re all in this together – reading and analysing the poetry”

“Did her the world of good – normally she doesn’t say anything, she opened right up after the war poems in the evening and had us all enthralled for 2 hours”

“Reading to Patients” initiative started at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch

Reading to patients has been set up as a service between the Chaplaincy service at the Alexandra Hospital and Worcestershire Health Libraries. It consists of trained volunteers going on to the ward and, with the agreement of the patients, reading aloud to them. The content is completely decided by the patient.

Storytelling is at the heart of the initiative. This is sometimes known as bibliotherapy, which has many benefits including:

• helping to improve communication and make a connection with patients

• encouraging reminiscence in people with dementia

David Chamberlain  (Lead Librarian, Service Development) worked with the Chaplain and ten volunteers in setting up, training and supporting volunteers. 

Picture: Helen Birkenshaw, one of the Chaplaincy volunteers reading to a patient.

To find our more contact:

David Chamberlain Librarian: 01527 505773, David.Chamberlain2@nhs.net

DynaMed Plus

On your behalf Worcestershire Health Libraries are now subscribing to DynaMed Plus^®

     DynaMed Plus^® is the next-generation clinical information resource,it provides evidence-based content written by a world-class team of clinicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis to help clinicians in their daily practice.

Access is easy – via our intranet – Clinical Systems - no password

Or

 

Via our webpage – www.wkp.nhs.uk – Athens password needed (obtained via our website)

  

This is free to all staff in the Trust

For more details contact Emma Gibbs emmagibbs@nhs.net or 01905 760601 or x33763