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Quick reminder of what resources are available to you and how to access them

The magic key to all the e-resources you need including UpToDate and Browzine

If you haven’t asked the library to register you, you can self-register: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

The Library Space:

• 24 hour access with a Christie ID badge
• Computer & printing facilities with your Christie username
• Department 60 (2^nd floor)
• How to find us on the Intranet

Your saviour on the ward!

Trusted evidence based decision making advice at the point of care.

• Within the Trust access from Library front page
• Outside the Trust log in from www.christie.nhs.uk/library and use your OpenAthens

The ‘BrowZine’ app for journal access
Download on to your phone or tablet
Peruse all our journal subscriptions on the go
Create and maintain bookshelves
Keep up to date with the latest articles.
One time log in to Christie Library ‘institution’ using your OpenAthens account, then off you go…

ClinicalKey is a resource provided by Elsevier. It allows you to easily search for and find full text content over a range on content including
* Full text access to ebooks and Ejournals including Lancet Oncology, the Red Journal and the Green journal   *Guidance   *Images and videos

Access without password on the Library Intranet front page or from   www.christie.nhs.uk/library outside the Trust with OpenAthens

BMJ Best Practice
Access with OpenAthens from front page of intranet or our website
Excellent for finding guidelines
Procedural videos

You have access to a large number of ebooks with OpenAthens
* Search on our library catalogue
* We have access to the Oxford Handbook of Oncology. Find on the catalogue
* TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours is also on the catalogue
* Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology via the catalogue or via ClinicalKey

 

 

* The Christie Repository is a regularly  updated database of articles published by researchers based at the Christie or CRUK (Manchester Institute).
* If you have published research whilst working at The Christie, the repository will also help you publicise your research to other researchers.
* Access The Christie Repositor
* Actively researching? Ask the library staff about OrcID

NICE Evidence and the Databases
The healthcare databases, provided by NICE, provide access to selected, quality clinical and non-clinical evidence-based information. Access to the following databases are available:
AMED, British Nursing Index, CINAHL, EMBASE, HMIC, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Health Business Elite.

Library Services
Can’t find a journal article?  We can show you how to find it or how to order it if necessary.
Training on literature searching, critical appraisal, citation management and the Cochrane Library
We can do literature searches for you provided they are not for study (when we can sit with you and help build your strategy)

But don’t forget yourself – enjoy a good read with our fiction section  – no fines!

The Christie Library & Knowledge Service working with the Cancer Information Centre, Chaplaincy and The Christie at Oldham produced a bid to fund books for patients in these areas.  Patients are benefiting every day from access to this material.

But did you know …

All public libraries across England have reading well books to help you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing
Manchester public library service has a home-delivery service for Manchester residents called Books to Go.  This is aimed at people with limited mobility, a visual impairment or any difficulty leaving their home.  Watch the video

In hospital?  Again Manchester public libraries have a whole range of services you can use, available on your smartphone or tablet and all for free! Find out more here about how to access ebooks, emagazines and talking books from Manchester public libraries.

Leaflets about both these 2 services are available from the Cancer Information Centre, opposite M&S at the Oak Road Entrance, The Christie Hospital

 

 

Here are some links to some articles you might like to look at from one of our collections of nursing journals.  This will require you to have an OpenAthens login.

REMEMBER: the library is here to help and support you so please ask us if you need help, after all nobody was born knowing any of this!

Analgesic prescribing in palliative care (2014)

Pain management in cancer nursing (2014)

Acute pain services following surgery for colorectal cancer (2014)

Achieving effective control in cancer pain: a review of current guidelines (2014)

How do nurses in specialist palliative care assess and manage breakthrough cancer pain?  (2014)

Treating cancer pain: the palliative nursing dilemma (2016)

Neuropathic pain in people with cancer (part 2): pharmacological and non-pharmacological management (2015)

Pain, inflammation and wound healing (2018)

Palliative care: Medicines for actively dying patients without pain (2016)

These links go to the page.  To see the full text you will need to click on Sign in and select OpenAthens

Many healthcare assistants are working towards their Christie Care Certificate.  Standard 6 is about communication.  The Journal of Healthcare Assistants provides many useful articles.

To access them you need something called OpenAthens.

• self register for it here using your Trust email address
• it will give you a username or you can use your Trust email address
• go to your email to set your password.

Once you have an OpenAthens you can explore this journal to the full.  Start by trying these articles.  They will require you to enter your OpenAthens username and password

• Communication, ethics and healthcare assistants
  Published Online: July 09, 2016
• Care Certificate Standards 5 and 6: working in a person-centred way; and communication
  Published Online: January 28, 2016
• Team communication
  Published Online: March 07, 2018
• Communication skills and enhancing clinical practice through reflective learning: a case study
  Published Online: February 16, 2015

If you get stuck doing any of this the Library is here to support you.  Drop by and see us for help in Dept 60 or email library@christie.nhs.uk  us or phone 3452

In the Trust you can access the ebooks through ClinicalKey without a password but outside the Trust, through our catalogue or below, you will need to use an OpenAthens password.

Brain Metasteses
Hematopathology
Pain Management

Any problems, please contact the library

We are all very excited about the Christie Health and Wellbeing Event and will enjoy many of the activities and feel encouraged to be more active and take better care of ourselves.  Just take a look at Chris T Bear doing his prep for the day!

But how do we sustain this?

Well you could take a leaf out of Chris T’s book (ho, ho) and use some library resources.

* Go to the library catalogue
* Type in health and wellbeing
* If you fancy a bit of fiction type in books for breaks
* Visit the library to take out a title – all staff can join

Is there anything else?

These websites have been recommended by NHS staff and peer reviewed for usefulness, accessibility and free to use.

Living life to the full
Free online courses written by Dr Chris Williams, Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow. The courses cover low mood and stress and all of the common linked problems this causes. Work out why you feel as you do, how to tackle problems, build confidence, get going again, feel happier, stay calm, tackle upsetting thinking and more.

MoodGym
MoodGYM is a free, interactive program consisting of 5 modules, which help you to explore: Why you feel the way you do; Changing the way you think; Knowing what makes you upset; Assertiveness and interpersonal skills training and how to develop good coping skills for the future so that you can enjoy good mental health.

NHS Choices Live well pages
Trusted health and wellbeing advice from the NHS on 104 topics. Link to information on keeping fit, stopping smoking, eating well, feeling happy.

Yoga with Adrienne
If you struggle to get out to classes have a look at this YouTube channel with lots of yoga tutorials. Led by Adriene, from beginners to advanced, and for different levels of ability and interests. Highly recommended.

These APPS have been recommended by NHS staff and peer reviewed for usefulness and accessibility and free to use as far as possible.

Stop, breathe & Think
A friendly app to guide people through meditations for mindfulness & compassion With this app, you can practice Mindfulness and Meditation through a process called STOP, BREATHE & THINK.

 

Active 10 walking tracker from Public Health England
Just 10 minutes of brisk walking every day can benefit your health, improve the way you feel and reduce the risk of a number of long-term conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

FoodSwitch-UK
Uses the smartphone’s camera (autofocus camera lenses required) to scan the barcodes of supermarket food. Rates each food item for its contents of four criteria (total fat; saturated fat; salt; sugar) on a simple ‘traffic-light’ colour-coded scale (red for high, amber for moderate, and green for low). Suggests healthier alternatives after searching a database of foods created by researchers.

…… and finally  Myhealthapps.net    
Brings together 100s of the world’s favourite tried and tested healthcare apps. (Please note some of the Apps do have a cost).

 

We would like to thank our colleagues at  Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust for providing us with the information for the websites and apps

 

 

 

With your OpenAthens login you can access the MARTINDALE’S pharmacology information provided by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.  Look for the button on our Intranet site or click here

Unfortunately we do not have full access to all the features of Micromedex, but we do have access to Martindale’s and the Micromedex app.

Enter your OpenAthens details and click on button

 

Where to begin once logged in?

 

Here is an example of clicking on the results

You are presented with the drug choice (cabozantinib) and the drug group choice (Antineoplastics).  Explore each and you will get slightly different information.  Look at the information on the choice of antineoplastics to see what cancers can be treated with this group of drugs

Other useful features

1. Select the calculators for dosing tools e.g. IV rate calculator
2. Download the mobile app.  The password is updated on the 1st March each year so make sure yours is in date

 

 

 

DynaMed Plus  is a clinical information resource that decreases time to answer for the busy clinician. DynaMed Plus provides evidence-based content written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis to help clinicians in their daily practice.

Why not explore it today?  Find it on the front page of our Library Intranet page.  No passwords needed.  Look at it outside the Trust with OpenAthens.

This useful guide will help to get the most out of the site including showing you how to:

• search
• get updates
• look at the calculators
• install the app

Key features

• provides UK guidelines including NICE
• updated daily
• contains Micromedex drug content
• you can browse by speciality
• graphics and images included
• overview and recommendations section included
• you can create alerts
• mobile app version

Please take a look before the end of February and tell us what you think!