This week's app of the week is OvidToday. Download the app to your device to get access to many of Francis Costello Library's journal subscriptions from the last six months with articles in full text. Read more to find out how:
Kick start your CPD for 2017 with the reading challenge at the Library Education and Resource Centre, anyone can get involved. Look at information to improve your work skills and relax with our leisure collection. Pick up a reading challenge form at the Library, County Hospital or print one from the news section on the UHNM intranet homepage. Fill in the blank column with what you have read and send back to us by 13th February to receive a certificate of participation.
A pioneering health and information service launched across South Staffordshire is making great strides in supporting older people to stay healthy, safe and independent in their own home.
The Care Navigation Service is delivered by Age UK South Staffordshire and South Staffordshire Community and Voluntary Action (CVA).
It is a free service helping community health teams to increase the levels of access to information and support that people who are undergoing challenges in their lives can get in the local community.
Research involving the public as partners often proves difficult to locate due to the variations in terms used to describe public involvement, and inability of medical databases to index this concept effectively.
The principles of evidence-based medicine have been critiqued by the ‘caring’ professions, such as nursing and social work, and evidence-informed medicine has been proposed as a more client-centred, integrative approach to practice. The purpose of this study was to explore how Canadian health science librarians who serve nurses and allied health professionals define good service and how they negotiate evidence-based principles in their searching strategies.