Wednesday, November 29, 2017

PC and room unavailability at Maidstone Hospital Library next week

Maidstone Hospital Library: PLEASE NOTE

Reference room: is unavailable all day on Tuesday 5th December due to exams

PCs: ALL the PCs at Maidstone Hospital Library will in use between 1pm-5pm on Thursday 7th & Friday 8th December due to exams

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.

MTW Library team




Friday, November 17, 2017

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
9th 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


News on Updated Procedures in ClinicalSkills.net!

This week it’s all about bowels! We have the following updates for you:

Constipation: Causes and assessment
This procedure has been completely revamped following peer review and now follows a more logical order. The references have also been updated and it now cites the Rome IV (2017) for the definition of constipation.

Constipation: Treatment
Also revamped following peer review, this procedure has gone up by a page and now includes a comprehensive table of laxatives and other medications to treat constipation, with useful notes on mode of action and the best ways of using these laxatives. This procedure includes many new references.

Stool specimen: collection
Stool specimen assessment
Both of these procedures have been updated by the editor following peer review.

Inserting a rectal suppository
Administration of an enema
Wendy Ness, Colorectal Nurse Specialist at Croydon University Hospital—the editor of the constipation and stool specimen procedures mentioned above—has also become the editor of the procedures on administering a suppository and an enema. The first of these now includes additional information on assessing the patient before administering a suppository, and the differences between suppositories administered for local effect and those administered for systemic effect. References have been reviewed and updated where necessary.

The procedure on administering an enema now includes more detailed information on the different types of enema—evacuant and retention—and the need for carrying out a risk assessment before administering an enema.

I’ll be back soon with more updates and news about the website, until then…



ACCESS CLINICALSKILLS.NET FROM THE MTW TRUST INTRANET- SEARCH LIBRARY RESOURCES OR ACCESS OFF-SITE AT WWW.CLINICALSKILLS.NET WITH AN OPENATHENS ACCOUNT



Thursday, November 02, 2017

Reminder about UpToDate Anywhere- NOT VIA ATHENS

Calling all MTW UpToDate users!
You now access UpToDate off-site with an UpToDate Anywhere account and NOT with an Athens account!  Here's how you register for an UpToDate Anywhere account:

Registration is easy:

· Access UpToDate® from within the Trust network by clicking on the UpToDate® link    on the bottom right of the Trust intranet home page.
· Click on Log in/Register in the top navigation bar of the UpToDate® log in page .
· Create a unique user name and password on the UpToDate® Anywhere registration page.


You are now registered and will receive a confirmation email
about installing the UpToDate®  Mobile App

In order to maintain your account active, it is important to log into UpToDate via the trust network with your username and password via the UpToDate link on the bottom of the trust intranet at least once in every 3 months.



Monday 6th November- MTW Libraries closed PM

The MTW Libraries will be closed from 1pm-5pm on Monday 6th November for a team meeting.
Out of hours access is available as usual.

Thank you
MTW Libraries


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