Resources for nurses at St George’s library

To mark this year’s Nurses Day, we have compiled a brief guide to some of the resources that can help to guide and support the amazing work that nurses do each and every day.

Books

A wide range of print and electronic books are available from the library at St George’s. Below are some lists of available titles on a selection of nursing specialties or nursing-related topics:

• Nursing research

• Nursing theory and models

• Reflective practice in nursing

• Critical care nursing

• Paediatric nursing

• Mental health nursing

To access any of the e-books included in the above lists, you will need an NHS OpenAthens account. If you don’t already have one, you can easily register online. This also provides access to most of the journals, databases and other useful resources noted below.

Websites and online resources

The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures, is available online with your OpenAthens account.

A series of training videos on a range of topics including how to carry out different assessments and procedures is available through the ProQuest Hospital Collection.

Clinical guidelines, resources to support professional and career development, and other helpful information can be found on the Royal College of Nursing website, while information relating to registration and nursing standards is available from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Journals

NICE provide a searchable A-Z of all journals available through OpenAthens, which can be found here: https://journals.nice.org.uk/

Available journals include: Nursing Standard, Nursing Management, and the British Journal of Nursing.

Login and search to see all available titles.

Databases

In addition to Cinahl and Emcare the larger, and international databases which provide coverage relevant to all nursing specialties and professionals, there are also some smaller UK specific databases with a focus on nursing: the British Nursing Index, and Internurse.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which you can find at the Cochrane Library also includes material relevant to nursing, as do more general medical databases such as Medline (and it’s free equivalent PubMed) and Embase.

Finding information

The library team at St George’s offers training on where and how to find the best quality information to support clinical practice, research, and quality improvement. You can find details on the sessions available here.

We also provide a evidence search service, CARES, which provides aims to provide recent, reliable and relevant evidence on your topic or question. Search requests can be submitted for patient care queries, service development, teaching or research projects, or for any other professional need.

Help

St George’s library has a team dedicated to providing support for all of the nurses (and other NHS staff) at St George’s trust. If you have any questions, need advice on anything related to finding, or managing information, or if there’s anything that we might be able to help with, you can get in touch at: liaison@sgul.ac.uk

Kortext ebooks NHS collection

Health Education England (HEE) has invested in a collection of ebooks for NHS staff, now available through Kortext.

The collection of ebooks covers subject areas including key clinical topics, nursing and healthcare management, alongside titles on critical appraisal, mentoring and revision resources for medical exams.

To access the books, go directly to the Kortext website: https://app.kortext.com, select St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust from the list of institutions and enter your OpenAthens details. You will also find a link to Kortext in ‘My Resources‘ when you log into your OpenAthens account.

On the landing page of the site, click on Collections to view the full list of ebooks. Selecting an available title will add it to Books, which is your personal bookshelf. Books that you open will remain on your bookshelf for the duration of their loan period.

Kortext offers accessiblity options which allow you to change the formatting of a book, including options for the background colour, the font and the size of the text. When reading a book, make use of the options to take notes, highlight content, bookmark pages or print – all notes, highlights and bookmarks are saved in your account.

If you wish to read offline, create a personal Kortext account and download the app; Kortext apps are available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.

Example titles:

Bailey & Love’s Essential Clinical Anatomy

Care of the Cancer Patient

Children and Young People’s Nursing Skills at a Glance

Essentials of Management for Healthcare Professionals

Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants

Medical Statistics at a Glance

Patient-Centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life

Research Methodologies for Beginners

Supervision in Clinical Practice : A Practitioner’s Guide

The doctor’s guide to critical appraisal

The Foundation Programme for Doctors

The textbook of non-medical prescribing

This collection is an addition to those ebooks which are already available from St George’s Library, and which can be accessed through Hunter.

If you need to create an OpenAthens account, or have forgotten your password, visit: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/. Contact liaison@sgul.ac.uk with any questions.

NHS OpenAthens resources now accessible through Google Scholar and PubMed

All St George’s Trust staff with OpenAthens accounts now have access to those resources directly from Google Scholar and PubMed. The display of OpenAthens links in these platforms can be set up by following a few quick steps.

Setting up Google Scholar links:

1. Click on the menu at the top left of the Google Scholar home page
2. Select ‘Settings’
3. Select ‘Library links’
4. Search for ‘st george’
5. Select ‘St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’
6. Click Save

All searches in Google Scholar will display a ‘St George’s Trust OpenAthens’ link next to results where full-text is available:

(Note that these steps need to be followed separately on each device you use).

Setting up PubMed links:

1. Login to My NCBI. If you do not have an account, register here
2. Under ‘Filters’, ensure that PubMed is selected in the drop-down menu, and click on ‘Manage Filters’
3. Select LinkOut from the available filter categories, and search for St George’s
4. Next to the entry for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, check the boxes under the Filter and Link Icon columns

All searches in PubMed will display a ‘St George’s Trust OpenAthens’ filter when you are signed in to My NCBI. When viewing the abstract of an individual result, where full-text is available a St George’s Library icon will be displayed under ‘Full text links’ on the right of the page:

 

More detailed step-by-step guides are available on the SGUL Library website.

Evidence based healthcare resources

BMJ Case Reports

BMJ Case Reports is an international, peer reviewed collection of over 13,500 clinical cases covering all disciplines for clinicians and researchers.

Search by keyword or browse by specialty to find clinically important information on common and rare conditions, or subscribe to the RSS feed to receive updates on latest articles, most read articles or new blog posts.

Access is available to NHS staff via their NHS OpenAthens account (self-register here), and to SGUL staff and students via their university login details.

If you have an interesting case, you can receive peer reviews and rapid publication by submitting it for inclusion to BMJ Case Reports Journal. See the BMJ website for submission templates and full details on how to submit your case.

For more information about the SGUL subscription, or to obtain the institutional fellowship code, contact journals@sgul.ac.uk.

Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin

Independent of the pharmaceutical industry, Government and regulatory authorities, each article in the DTB has been evaluated by a wide range of specialist and generalist commentators.

By providing rigorous, unbiased assessments and recommendations of drugs and other treatments for diseases, this journal can be relied upon by doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals who are looking to make evidence based decisions to ensure their patients receive the best possible care.

Access is granted via Shibboleth for SGUL staff and students, and via OpenAthens for NHS staff.

The NHS Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) has changed!

A new version of the HDAS interface for searching databases like Medline and CINAHL, available via OpenAthens, has been launched.  Many of the search functions will remain unchanged, but there are some new features and processes (including how to edit, limit and save your search).

We are in the process of updating our library webpages with videos and guides on how to use the new interface, but in the meantime you might find it useful to look at the series of help videos created by NICE.

Please note that you can still choose to use the old version for the moment, but this is due to be switched off by the end of the year.  We will let you know when a date has been finalised.

As always, if you require any help with using the databases or want to brush up your literature searching skills, please book on to one of our training sessions or email liaison@sgul.ac.uk to book a 1:1 session with one of your librarians at a time that suits you.

e-Learning for Healthcare now available via OpenAthens

Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) resources are now available via OpenAthens. HEE e-LfH Hub has been added to the list of OpenAthens resources giving users access to a series of online resources free of charge with just a single OpenAthens account.

HEE e-LfH currently offers more than 100 programmes comprising of more than ten thousand e-learning sessions. The programmes cover subjects from audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, electronic fetal monitoring to end of life care, primary care to prescribing, safeguarding children to statutory and mandatory training.

Sessions are developed in partnership with the professional bodies, Department of Health policy teams and other NHS bodies such as NHS England and Public Health England. The programmes aim to support patient care by providing e-learning to educate and train the health and social care workforce.

All content is nationally quality-assured and available 24/7.  The online training sessions enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point. The HEE e-LfH Hub records user activity, enabling users to run reports on all their learning activity and build a transferable life-long learning portfolio. The reports can be viewed online, or downloaded in PDF or Excel formats for use offline.

You can find the new content by going to https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login. Log in with your OpenAthens username and password, and click on My Resources in the menu on the left hand side.

To register for an OpenAthens account please visit: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

For more information about accessing e-LfH resources via OpenAthens visit: http://support.e-lfh.org.uk/get-started/openathens/