Happy International Nurses Day from Knowledge and Library Services

Happy International Nurses Day to our wonderful nursing staff at Barts Health NHS Trust from your dedicated Knowledge and Library Services team.

We have a great relationship with the nurses within the Trust, over 700 of whom are current members of the library - to join them, fill in a membership registration form here: http://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/education/knowledge-and-library-services/joining-the-library/

We know how important the work you do is, and we want to provide you with every support you need, providing you with resources and services that give you the right information to support evidence-based practice, as well as to support you in your studies and Continued Professional Development.

See below for some of the great resources and services we offer especially for nursing staff - all of these services and resources are absolutely free. If you would like any further information, please visit our website www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/library orcontact us at library.enquiry@bartshealth.nhs.uk.

Current Awareness Service
When you have a heavy workload, it can be hard to stay on top of all the new evidence and research coming out from a huge number of sources within your field.

Let us know your professional interests (you can be as specific or as broad as you like) and we will produce an individually tailored current awareness report which will be emailed to you every two weeks, providing a summary of key new evidence relevant to your interests.  If you want to find out more about any of the items in the summary, simply email a response and your dedicated librarian will respond to you personally.  To tell us about your interests, fill in the form here: http://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/education/knowledge-and-library-services/keeping-up-to-date/

Barts Evidence Enquiry Service (BEES)
Need evidence in a hurry to support your decision-making? Knowledge and Library Services can help with BEES.  Simply tell us your information needs, and one of our professional librarians will buzz off and conduct a literature search to find the most relevant, up-to-date information on the subject, delivering it to you in a report with links to the full text where available. To request a literature search from BEES, fill in the form here: http://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/education/knowledge-and-library-services/request-a-literature-search/
  
Books and Journals
We have a wide collection of books and e-books aimed specifically at nurses - see the catalogue for the full list: http://bartshealth.nhslibraries.com/HeritageScripts/Hapi.dll/search2?searchterm0=nurs*&I2.x=0&I2.y=0 

Most of our journal collection is electronic, so you can access information any time, anywhere and on any device (as long as you have an internet connection).  You will need just one OpenAthens username and password to access the majority of our electronic content - to register for your OpenAthens account, please fill in the form here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/
 
Once you have an OpenAthens account, you can use it to log in to search a huge range of journals, including those aimed specifically at nurses e.g. Nursing Times, Nursing Standard, British Journal of Nursing and more: http://www.library.nhs.uk/login.aspx?postloginpage=/booksandjournals/journals/

Other resources
We provide a number of other free resources especially for nurses:

Royal Marsden Manual Online: Log in with OpenAthens to access this key nursing text online, with over 350 illustrated procedures covering every aspect of care.

Dynamed Plus point-of-care tool: Log in with OpenAthens to access clinical summaries for over 3200 topics, updated regularly from over 500 medical journals and systematic review databases. This can also be accessed offline via an app  on your phone - contact library.enquiry@bartshealth.nhs.uk for details.

ClinicalSkills.net: Log in with OpenAthens to access this information packageof illustrated clinical skills guidelines, with over 160 procedures covered in an accessible, visual format.

MedHand for Nurses: This mobile app gives you access to top-quality e-books on the go. Access 5 core titles as standard, then choose an additional two books from a collection of over 150 titles completely free.  To register for a MedHand account and learn how to install the app and choose your optional titles, email library.enquiry@bartshealth.nhs.uk

Searching and saving on ClinicalKey

Browsing

ClinicalKey is organized into content types including journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drugs, CMEs, and multimedia which you can browse through.

 

Select the type of content you want to browse and the browse page for the content type opens with a content list in alphabetical order e.g. Books.  The page for each content type will display a search box which allows you to "find by title", A-Z alphabet filters which enable you to browse, and specialties drop down with a list of specialties and the number of the relevant content type available under each specialty. Typing into the search box or clicking on an alphabet from A-Z narrows down the content list.

You can filter Drug Monograpghs by drug class, adverse reactions, indications, and contraindications. Practice guidelines and Patient Education can be filtered by specialties and authoring organizations. Multimedia can be filtered by specialty and media type.

Searching

As you start typing into the ClinicalKey Search Bar, you will find that the AutoSuggest feature automatically displays a list of relevant search terms. You can continue typing to refine the list or simply click on the best match from the list. You can also use the "All Types" drop down to restrict the results by source type.

 

The results may be filtered even further by study type, date and specialties. They are listed  in order of clinical relevance which can be changed to order of date published.

If a result displays a PDF icon, you can click on the icon to download the content directly as a PDF document. Hovering over a result will supply the option to save, print or share via email as well as the PDF icon where available.

Reading and Saving Search Results (You need to be logged in)

Click on a title to open it on the Content Reader and view the full content. The Content Reader also has three panels.

• The left panel displays Outlines or Table of Contents for easy navigation.
• The centre panel displays the full-text content of which sections can be selected from the left panel. You can also use the Go to at the top left to display the drop down table of contents and select a specific subtopic (as shown on the right).
• The right panel includes additional information such as the author(s), references etc. The RSS feature is displayed as New issue Alerts - Subscribe when viewing a journal article. It is also displayed when you are on an individual journal's landing page. This feature enables you to subscribe the most recently published issues of that particular journal plus links to each corresponding article's URL on ClinicalKey. 

Above the right panel, there are icons available to help you manage the content.

• Printer - print the content.
• Envelope - send the content in an email (Recipient must have acces to ClinicalKey to view full content).
• PDF - download the content as PDF document after which you can save it.
• CME -add content to your CME profile.
• Save -  Save the content to Saved Searches.

Presentation Maker (You need to be logged in)

You can use the Presentation Maker to collect and save images to share or present by exporting to PowerPoint. Select your name at the top right hand of the page to display the drop down. Select Presentations.

 
This will take you to Presentation Maker. You have the option to create a new presentation, add images to Presentation Maker from saved content or edit existing presentations by exporting to PowerPoint, changing the name or deleting.

You can also add images to Presentation Maker whilst readingthe contents of a book or article you've opened.

• Click on the image you want to add to your Presentation Maker. A new window pops up which includes the image, description and citation. A Presentation icon will be next to the save button. 

• Click on Presentation icon and you will be prompted to Add to Presentation. Select the Presentation you want to add your image to or create a new presentation if one doesn't already exist. You will be prompted to save and go to Presentations Page. Click on the save button and the immage will become available to view in Presentation Maker.

To export images, click the Export to PowerPoint button in Presentation Maker.

 

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