How do you use information for your work and CPD? What do you think of MPFT library services? Tell us here and you could win £25 vouchers: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B2JVNPR
Open access. Effective communication between patients and practitioners is fundamental to the delivery of high-quality care. This is particularly important in the complex and challenging nature of working in palliative and end of life care. Following specialist communication skills training, a group of healthcare professionals explored the impact of action learning (AL) on the perceptions of their knowledge, skills and confidence in communication skills. The research also aimed to establish an evidence base by exploring the nature and impact of the AL approach employed to facilitate improvements in professional practice.
We've added 10 new Be Aware updates following your suggestions:
Musculoskeletal ; Osteoporosis ; Nutrition and obesity ; Falls ; HR ; Research Methods ; Information Governance ; Bladder, bowel and pelvic healthcare ; Rheumatology ; Medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency (circulated email)
We'd like to hear your suggestions for new book alert topics. Simply reply to this email with 'Book Alert Topic' and your suggestions. You can also view and sign-up to our current new book alerts here: http://library.sssft.nhs.uk/librarykeepuptodate
- Quick access to the Royal Marsden online via the library website homepage: library.sssft.nhs.uk
- Sign-in using your Open Athens username and password (if you don't yet have an Open Athens account, register at: openathens.nice.org.uk)
- Do a quick keyword search of all procedures
- Browse all chapters, clinical procedures and illustrations
- View custom MPFT procedures including: infection control skin preparation, medicines management.
We're expanding our Be Aware updates and want to know what physical health topics you'd like to keep updated on. Let us know your ideas by replying to this email with 'physical health topics' followed by your suggestions
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
The GMC has produced a interactive teaching session to increase awareness of the legal issues around the complex decision making that can occur at the end of life. This includes an interplay with the mental capacity act & safeguarding. The GMC have also produced case studies which the FY2 doctors, whom we trialled this session on, received well and worked through. We complimented this with clinical teaching around pain and safe prescribing by our team.
We are looking for the following to take part in our Consultation survey:
Roles that will have some regular contact with people receiving end of life care - for example: Healthcare assistants/Care workers; General Practitioners; Doctors (not specialising in end of life care);
Occupational Therapists; Nurses; Social Workers; Leaders of community groups
Those in roles which frequently involve providing end of life care - for example: Healthcare assistants/Care workers in end of life care services; Doctors specialising in end of life care; Occupational Therapists working in end of life care services; Nurses working in end of life care services; Social Workers working in end of life care services;
Discover how Leeds Teaching Hospitals provided a tailored approach to training, in the final of a suite of case studies focused on enhancing end-of-life care.
In addition to trust-wide training opportunities, the palliative care and end-of-life care specialists offered bespoke departmental teaching and focused interventions to improve care within specific clinical areas.
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
Practicing healthcare professionals and graduates exiting training programs are often ill-equipped to facilitate important discussions about end-of-life care with patients and their families. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effectiveness of educational interventions aimed at providing healthcare professionals with training in end-of-life communication skills, compared to usual curriculum.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
We're currently making some changes in the background of our email updates to solve some problems we've been having recently. During our testing phase this may automatically generate some alerts, which will show below, but you can ignore these! If all goes according to plan we will be resuming normal service in the next week…