Eight High Impact Ideas for Improvements in Nursing & Midwifery Care

A really interesting website is the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. They say that they are there to “support the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology and world-class leadership”.

They recently called for nurses and midwives to share ideas for improvements. You can read these on the website. There are 600 submissions! Lots of ideas to think about.

In the end, however, a large group of experienced nurses and midwives whittled this down to just eight, and these are outlined in: Details of high impact actions announced at the CNO’s conference.

NHS Evidence allows staff to keep up to speed on best practice

Article from Nursing Times 15th January 2010. Author shows NHS Evidence (http://www.evidence.nhs.uk) enables him to support his teaching and practise.

http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/acute-care/nhs-evidence-makes-it-easier-to-access-the-latest-evidence-based-information-/5010453.article

Clinical and communication skills tutorials.

http://www.cetl.org.uk/learning/tutorials.html

 The prestigious Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) status awarded to Queen Mary University of London and City University London in recognition of their excellence in providing professional training in healthcare brought with it

£3.15 million over 5 years in funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). They have developed a suite of tutorials for students to access to support clinical and communication skills learning.

Health Subject Librarian

From 4^th January until the end of March 2010 Clare Boucher will be acting as Subject Librarian for the School of Human & Health Sciences and the School of Medicine. This is while Lori Havard takes on a temporary Senior Management role in LIS.

If you need to contact the Health Team please email us at  healthlib@swan.ac.uk. Alternatively contact Clare Boucher or Stephen Storey in LIS.

New clinical journal added to the Library

We now have access to The International Journal of Clinical Skills.  You will need to log in with your Athens account, both on and off campus.  Please search for the journal’s name in Voyager, and there will be a link to the online journal.

OpenSIGLE for Grey Literature

OpenSIGLE– System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe: Grey literature is the term used to describe unpublished materials such as conference papers, technical reports, etc. OPEN SIGLE provides a searchable database of over 800,000 of these hard to find documents. Each record provides bibliographic details and links to sources which might supply a copy of the document.

The SIGLE database is multidisciplinary database, covering fundamental and applied sciences, technologies, humanities and social sciences.  OpenSIGLE is available at: http://opensigle.inist.fr/

Are you hitting a brick wall?

Do you feel like you can never find what you’re looking for, do you spend hours searching the internet only to hit a brick wall? – The Library staff are on hand to help. We are able to offer tailor-made sessions for staff and students to help develop research skills. Offered on a one-to-one basis or in a group workshop style training session our trained staff can help you on a variety of topics including:

· Using the library catalogue
· Using e-books and e-journals
· Using databases
· Using the internet effectively
· Referencing

For contact details please follow this link:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/subjectInformation/healthScience/contacts/

 

Last chance to enter!

With just 2 weeks to go, now is the time to get your entries in for the Library Arts competition. The first prize is £500 worth of high street vouchers and the chance to meet Ruth Jones, star of Gavin and Stacey. For more details visit http://library.wales.org/ or call in the library for an application form.

Closing date: 1st December 2009
Good luck!

New Dementia website

SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence) have produced a new website for nurses and others working with people with dementia – SCIE Dementia Gateway. Given recent reports about the number of patients in hospitals who suffer from dementia, this is a timely and very useful resource. The contents cover five main themes: getting to know the person with dementia, eating well, difficult situations, keeping occupied and the environment. Each theme includes practical tips, a learning activity and a additional resources. Resources include links to videos on dementia and an e-learning programme.

NHS Maternity Statistics, 2008-09 [England]

“Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) contains a wide range of maternity information which has been published annually since 2000-01. The publication includes details of all births taking place in NHS hospitals (in England) excluding home births and those taking place in independent sector hospitals. This includes a wide range of information such as details of how the baby was born (method of delivery), complications, birth weight and gestation.” The full report is available to download.