Libraries closed for team meeting- Monday 1st December

The Trust libraries will be closed during the morning of Monday 1st December.

24/7 access is available as usual.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you
MTW Trust Libraries

Christmas Film- Auditorium, Academic Centre, Maidstone Hospital

Dear all,

Just a little reminder that we will be showing a Christmas film on Wednesday 10th December, usual time of 6pm onwards. As well as some mince pies, we will have the addition of a little magic to entertain us in the dining room before we go in to watch the film, with huge thanks to Steve Lobley for offering to come along to do this for us:

“Steve Lobley (www.stevelobley.co.uk) is an all-round award winning entertainer. An Associate Member of The Inner Magic Circle with Silver Star – this is the highest degree possible via exam.
As a very busy entertainer working primarily in the South East, but not exclusively, in fact his magic has taken him as far as New York, Cape Town and even the QE2. Steve has wide experience across all age groups. Steve was one of the hundred Magicians booked to perform at the world famous London Palladium to celebrate its 100th year. As a Trade Show performer Steve has worked for some of the biggest named global companies such as IBM, BT, Microsoft, Barclays and The AA to name a few.”

The film is down to a vote….. Here were my initial suggestions, feel free to vote for one of these or send me your own suggestions. If the chosen film is appropriate for younger audiences, I would be very happy for you to bring children along and make this a festive event. Please do share with colleagues!

Elf
Miracle on 34th Street
Scrooge (Albert Finney version, of course!)
Muppet Christmas Carol
Love Actually
Arthur Christmas
The Santa Clause
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Polar Express
White Christmas
Home Alone
The Holiday

Let me know what you would like to see – hope to see lots of you on 10th December. I will notify you all of the film at the end of next week….
Emma Aldrich emma.aldrich@nhs.net 

Resource of the week - Google Scholar

Each week the Trust Library service will be promoting a different product available for all members of staff.

This week it is Google Scholar which you can search at http://scholar.google.co.uk/

Google Scholar provides a basic way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. If the full-text is freely available, it will appear next to your search results.

If you need to do a more advanced search, don't forget about the NHS databases, including Medline and Embase, available at http://www.evidence.nhs.uk (Athens account required). Any full-text journals which the NHS has paid for will appear in these databases.

UpToDate: Not just for doctors

Did you know that UpToDate increases medical knowledge for medical students, nurses and even patients? We encourage you to adopt UpToDate as a valuable resource for medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and all members of your care team.  Use UpToDate as an effective way to encourage informed decision-making and improved outcomes. 

UpToDate is a valuable resource in all stages of medical education and training:

• 95% of residents report UpToDate was the most effective resource for learning.¹
• 20 minutes a day reading UpToDate was associated with an increase in IM-ITE scores comparable to an entire year of residency.²
• Use of clinical decision support resources like UpToDate was associated with improved scores on Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Examinations (IM-MOCE).³
• 99% of trainee subscribers say they would recommend UpToDate to a colleague.⁴

UpToDate is equally valuable in the education of nurses and the patients for whom they care.
The nursing team at Swedish Medical Group, a large ambulatory care group in Seattle, WA, standardized on UpToDate as a way to educate nurses and patients to achieve quality-based outcomes.  Nurse Educator, Shirley Vacante, RN, BSN, offers these tips on how nurses use UpToDate to support best practices in a clinic:

• Research topics to answer patient questions properly
• Share Patient Information to enable better patient participation in care plans
• Verify and confirm medication and dosage information
• Use UpToDate guidelines for creating care plans 

Access UpToDate onsite from the Trust Intranet home page or by going to www.uptodate.com and logging in with your OpenAthens account

Resource of the Week: NHS Choices

Resource of the Week: NHS Choices

Each week the Trust library service will be promoting a different product available for all members of staff.

This week it is NHS Choices. This is a patient information website. It gives information about local NHS services and Health news as well as advice on topics such as how to lose weight.

Please visit www.nhs.uk

www.nhs.uk

Annals of Pharmacotherapy: Online access to current year

Calling all Pharmacy staff!

You can access the print of Annals of Pharmacotherapy at TWH library for 1997 onwards but now e-access is also available for the current plus previous year.

Go to http://aop.sagepub.com/content/by/year  and enter your NHS Athens account to access the current and previous years.

NETVIBES

Each week the Trust library service will be promoting a different product available for all members of staff.

This week is it "NETVIBES", it is a resource that is organised by topic/specialty and can be personalised for you/your team to include: news, website links, pubmed search results, e-journals and more.  

Visit the site now: www.netvibes.com/mtwlibrary

To find out how we can make this work for you please contact emma.aldrich@nhs.net

Orthopaedics- Display for November

Each month the Trust Libraries create a display and resource bulletin on a clinical topic.  For November, it is Orthopaedics.  The display is on show at both sites and the resource bulletin can be accessed here

All the other Library resource bulletins can be accessed on our website

Check out all the Orthopaedics e-books available on Clinical Key.  Athens account required.

TWH library PCs: Not available TOMORROW

All 16 of the Tunbridge Wells Hospital library PCs will be in use all day on FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER. This is due to an exam being held in the library.

The library will be open as usual and all other services will be available.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you,
Tunbridge Wells Hospital library team

Resource of the Week: DUETS

Each week the Trust library services will be promoting a different product available for all members of staff.

This week it is UK Duets available at http://www.library.nhs.uk/duets

UK Duets database contains information on the uncertainties about the effects of treatment and shows where more research is needed.