Libraries closed for team meeting- Monday 3rd July AM

The MTW Trust Libraries will be closed until 1pm on Monday 3rd July due to a team meeting. 24/7 access is available as usual.

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MTW Libraries

Resource of the Month - Clinicalskills.net

The library resource we are promoting this month is Clinicalskills.net

 Clinicalskills.net is a fully illustrated clinical procedures guide, with more than 200 clinical skills procedures shown in pictures, step by step.

BRAND NEW book editions in ClinicalKey!

New editions of the following books are now available in Clinical Key!:

Click on the links below and enter your OpenAthens account to access:

• Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas, 1st ed. (James)

• Clinical Gynecologic Oncology, 9th ed. (DiSaia)

• Hinman’s Atlas of Urologic Surgery, 4th ed. (Smith)

• Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease, 3rd ed. (Bakris)

• Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee, 6th ed. (Scott)

• Operative Techniques: Hand and Wrist Surgery, 3rd ed. (Chung)

• Harriet Lane Handbook (for Paediatric medicine), 21st ed (Hines)

Updated intravenous access and intravenous therapy procedures on ClinicalSkills.net

The following procedures on ClinicalSkills.net have been updated and now cite the Royal College of Nursing’s 2016 Standards for Infusion Therapy:

Care of a midline catheter

Accessing and care of an implanted port

Care of a skin-tunnelled catheter

Care of a peripheral intravenous cannula

Priming and connecting an infusion set

Intravenous infusions: problem solving

Infusion pumps and devices

Cannulation (using the one-handed technique)

Access ClinicalSkills.net via the Library resources page on the intranet or off-site at www.clinicalskills.net with your OpenAthens account.

ClincialSkills.net can help nurses with revalidation and CPD, ask in the Libraries for more details.

Display for June: Anaesthetics

Each month the Trust Libraries create a display and resource bulletin on a clinical topic. For June 2017, it is on Anaesthetics .  The display is on show at both Libraries and the resource bulletin (which lists a selection of our top resources for Anaesthetics plus other library resources and services) can be accessed here.  REMEMBER, the Libraries also hold many books on Anaesthetics at the WO 200 section on the shelves and search our catalogue for ALL titles: (www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk) 

The Anaesthetics bulletin is available in the Libraries and here.  All the other Library resource bulletins can be accessed on our website.
You can access e-journals such as Anesthesiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care with an OpenAthens account.  You can also access e-books such as Anesthesia secrets by Duke J C and the CORE text Miller's Anesthesia by R D Miller also with an OpenAthens account.

You can borrow the most recent editions of Emergencies in anaesthesia by Allman K G and Anaesthesia at a glance by J Stone as well as many other Anaesthesia books at WO 200 on the Library shelves.

Search and access e-resources via our catalogue www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk with your OpenAthens account.

An OpenAthens account is 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 OpenAthens account, accessing e-resources or anything else we can help you with!  Don't forget that we also offer training in literature searching, accessing online resources and study skills. We can also perform literature searches for you!