Free Training Courses @ your Local Trust Library!

Maidstone Hospital

Venue: The Library, 1^st Floor, Academic Centre

          Course                                       Day                                Date                             Time

Study Skills                                      Monday                        4 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Study Skills                                      Monday                      25 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Study Skills                                      Monday                        6 June                    11:30 – 12:30

Searching Online Resources      Monday                        4 April                     12:30 – 13:30

Searching Online Resources      Monday                      25 April                     12:30 – 13:30

Searching Online Resources      Monday                        6 June                    12:30 – 13:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                        4 April                     13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                      11 April                     13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                      18 April                     13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                      25 April                     13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                        9 May                      13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                      16 May                      13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                      23 May                      13:30 – 14:30

Literature Searching                     Monday                        6 June                    13:30 – 14:30

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Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Venue: The Library, Level -2, Education & Training Centre

          Course                                      Day                               Date                               Time

Study Skills                                      Friday                          1 April                      09:30 – 10:30

Study Skills                                      Friday                        29 April                      09:30 – 10:30

Study Skills                                      Friday                         3 June                     09:30 – 10:30

Searching Online Resources      Friday                          1 April                      10:30 – 11:30

Searching Online Resources      Friday                       29 April                      10:30 – 11:30

Searching Online Resources      Friday                          3 June                     10:30 – 11:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                          1 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                           8 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                         15 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                         22 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                         29 April                     11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                           6 May                      11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                         13 May                      11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                        20 May                      11:30 – 12:30

Literature Searching                     Friday                        27 May                      11:30 – 12:30

Literature searching                      Friday                          3 June                     11:30 – 12:30

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BOOKING ADVISABLE*

Please contact Alison on Ext 35994 or 07500 814120

or email alison.millis@nhs.net

*Tailored 1:1 sessions available at a date, time & venue to suit you

Clinical Key news

Procedures videos added for Cardiovascular medicine 31 cardiovascular specific Procedures Consult videos were added to all ClinicalKey products.  Procedures Consult reviews in detail how to prepare for, perform and follow up on the most common procedures required in today's hospital setting. Procedures Consult helps doctors and nurses to consistently achieve the best patient outcomes. All Procedures Consult items are browsable at  https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/browse/procedures NICE Guidelines now in ClinicalKey NICE guidelines have now been added to ClinicalKey allowing you to search and filter them as an additional content type. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) carries out assessments of the most appropriate treatment regimens for different diseases. This must take into account both desired medical outcomes (i.e. the best possible result for the patient) and also economic arguments regarding differing treatments. NICE is internationally renowned as a role model for the development of clinical guidelines. Go to https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/browse/guidelines and select National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as authoring organisation to see all NICE guidelines.

Last chance to enter our World Book day quiz to win a Kindle!

The Library Quiz where you match the member of MTW staff to their favourite book is ending soon! We will be announcing the winner by the end of the week so click below to enter to be in with a chance of winning a Kindle!:

 https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F8K8R88

Easter Opening times- Trust Libraries & Easter Competitions!

Don't forget that our Easter guess the number of sweets competition & the Staff book quiz to win a Kindle are still open!  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F8K8R88

Resource of the Month- Royal Marsden Manual Online

The library resource we are promoting this month is the Online Edition of the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures:

Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures

9^th ed (2015)

Access via the Trust Intranet (search library resources)

or

Go to www.rmmonline.co.uk and log in with your OpenAthens account to access

Sign up for your OpenAthens account by going to www.evidence.nhs.uk

and click on register for OpenAthens.  Once you have your account,

 you will be able to access this and many other resources from anywhere

and at any time, 24 hours a day

The Royal Marsden Manual Online displays and explains evidence-based clinical skills and procedures related to essential aspects of a patient's care.

WIN THIS JAR OF SWEETS! EASTER COMPETITION!

Pop into either MTW Trust Library to make your guess and the winner will be announced on Thursday 24th March - Just in time for Easter!

UpToDate issues

Thank you for your patience while we work to fix the secure link from the Trust Intranet to the UTD service.

In the mean time, please do not forget that you can access UTD with an Athens username and password. The resource is linked from our intranet page:

http://mtwintranet/directory/departments/library-knowledge-services/library-resources

If you need help with your Athens username or password, please contact a member of the library team. If you need to apply for an Athens username, please go to:

https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

www.uptodate.com

Library Leisure Collections @ MTW Libraries

Did you know that the Trust Libraries have the latest Richard and Judy titles in stock for you to borrow?

AND......

We have other fiction titles and DVDs for loan too. Why not pop along and choose your Easter Reads? 

AND......

If you donate books or DVDs for our leisure collections (between 14th - 31st March), we will enter you into a draw to win a new fiction book or DVD of your own! Win-Win!

Display for March- Infection Control

Each month the Trust Libraries create a display and resource bulletin on a clinical topic. For March 2016, it is INFECTION CONTROL.  The display is on show at both libraries and the resource bulletin (which lists our top Infection Control resources plus other library resources and services) can be accessed here. REMEMBER, the libraries also hold many Infection Control books on the shelves in the WX 395 section.

The Infection Control bulletin is available here. All the other Library resource bulletins can be accessed on our website.
You can access e-journals such as American Journal of Infection Control and Journal of Hospital Infection.  You can also access Infection Control procedures on Clinicalskills.net and the Royal Marsden Manual Online,
Access these and other e-resources via our catalogue www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk with your OpenAthens account.


OpenAthens account required to access e-resources, go to https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ to self-
register for an account.

Please contact the Libraries if you have any issues with registering for an Athens account, accessing e-resources or anything else we can help you with!

Next week: Leisure Collection & Prize Draw!

14th - 31st March - A little bit of leisure

Ahead of the Easter Holidays, why not call in and see what leisure collections we have. Leisure? Yes! Fiction titles and DVDs are available to loan on both sites. We have some new titles in store for you, and will be adding the favourites chosen by our contributors to the quiz. 

*We always welcome donations; why not donate some fiction books or DVDs to us for others to enjoy, and we will enter you into a draw for an Amazon Voucher so that you can buy some new stuff*

Next Book Club: A Year of Marvellous Ways

The next Book Club will discuss A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman, one of the 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club titles. Next meeting will be Tuesday 26th April at 5pm in the ETC, Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

Book overview click here

For further details or to be added to the Book Club mailing list, please email Alison Millis: alison.millis@nhs.net or ring ext 35994

Book Amnesty 7-11 March!

Book Amnesty THIS WEEK 7-11 March!

Return those books.... the ones propping up the book case, the ones sliding about in the boot of the car.....

DO IT THIS WEEK and we will WAIVE ALL FINES outstanding.

(And while you are digging them out, why not clear the rest of your office shelves? We will take unwanted text books and donate them to BOOK AID, and enter YOU into a draw to win a new book of your choice for your department)

Don't forget our WBD Quiz is still open too! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F8K8R88 Enter now for a chance to win a Kindle.

Cochrane Library training videos

Cochrane Library Training Videos

Explore more of the Cochrane Library with these effective online self-paced tutorials.

These online tutorials are designed for users as a quick and informative overview and demonstration of the Cochrane Library. The tutorials provide an introduction to the Cochrane Library and how to browse and search the Cochrane Library.

You can find out more about the tutorials from our dedicated training page: http://www.cochranelibrary.com/help/how-to-use-cochrane-library.html

Alternatively you can sign up for one of our virtual workshops which occur monthly via a webinar.

World Book Day Events @ MTW Libraries

Check out the news item on the Trust Intranet to see what the MTW Trust Libraries have planned for the whole of March:

 http://mtwintranet/directory/departments/library-knowledge-services/world-book-day

Or search WBD on the Trust Intranet

World Book Day Quiz!- Win a Kindle!

Enter the quiz in person at Maidstone or TWH Library or online at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F8K8R88

Follow us on Twitter & Instagram!

Follow us on Instragram and Twitter to hear about library news and our events throughout March to celebrate World Book Day! Search for mtwnhslibrary to follow!

BOOK AMNESTY- NEXT WEEK!

As part of our World Book Day Events, MTW Trust Libraries are holding a Book Amnesty between 7th-11th March.  Return your books then and we will waive your fines!