It sets out:
common expectations for reflective practitioners
how reflection can be more effective, and less of a tick box exercise
how to develop multi professional teams of reflective practitioners.
At Leeds Libraries for Health partnership ten of us deliver a joint training programme. We each have our own ways of training people and we wanted to explore this so that we could learn from each other. We chose to start by looking at how we teach searching the healthcare databases (HDAS) as this is something we all teach and there were some concepts that we wanted to look at different ways of teaching (e.g. the thesaurus).
The European RHAPSODY project sought to develop and test an online information and support programme for caregivers of individuals diagnosed with young‐onset dementia. The objectives were to assess user acceptability and satisfaction with the programme, and to test outcome measures for a larger effectiveness study.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Rare disease patients find independent health information seeking necessary due to the general lack of knowledge on rare diseases and inadequate information provision by health care professionals.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Digital nurse Ellen McPake works to promote awareness of the possibilities as well as the perils for patients consulting Dr Google... Her role was created in response to fears that people with cancer were turning to the internet for information about their condition and treatment – and that they were at risk of finding bogus information on unverified sites. Part of her job is debunking the myths and preventing the harm that can come from such information.
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In an era when library budgets are being reduced, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC's) can offer practical and viable alternatives to the delivery of costly face-to-face training courses. In this study, guest writers Gil Young from Health Care Libraries Unit - North, Lisa McLaren from Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Liverpool University PhD student Michelle Maden describe the outcomes of a funded project they led to develop a MOOC to deliver literature search training for health librarians.
While many librarians have been asked to participate in systematic reviews with researchers, often these researchers are not familiar with the systematic review process or the appropriate role for librarians. The purpose of this study was to identify the challenges and barriers that librarians face when collaborating on systematic reviews.
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This article is part of the Catalogue of Bias series. We present a description of verification bias, and outline its potential impact on research studies and the preventive steps to minimise its risk. We also present teaching slides in the online supplementary file.
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