Virtual smartcards to help give NHS staff faster access to hospital systems
The use of a virtual smartcard and streamlined processes for physical cards has been given the green-light by NHS Digital
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Library Bulletin
The Gosall Library, April 2020
Read this week’s library bulletin on Learning Disabilities here
Health Literacy E-Learning
Health Education England and NHS Education for Scotland have produced joint e-learning on Health Literacy
This Health Literacy e-learning takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. It introduces the importance of health literacy and covers teach back, chunk and check, using simple language, using pictures and routinely offering help. The content relates to both clinical and non-clinical settings and may be used as a refresher for team members or as an introduction for colleagues who are interested in health literacy.
Register for the e-learning here
Clinical, mental health, and nursing e-book collections
Around 5,000 titles have been made available from EBSCO via OpenAthens until the end of May 2020 and include titles from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, McGraw-Hill Education, Springer Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
The clinical collection is available here and topic areas include dermatology, gynaecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, medicine (general), nursing, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, paediatrics, pharmacology and surgery.
The nursing collection is available here and topic areas include nursing research and theory, pharmacology, nursing management, evidence-based nursing, home care nursing and leadership.
The psychology collection is available here and topic areas include psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology and more.
For support contact EBSCO
Oxford Medicine Online
To help NHS staff who are tackling COVID-19, Oxford University Press is providing access to the entirety of Oxford Medicine Online to the NHS until the end of June 2020.
Library users can freely access Oxford Medicine Online using their OpenAthens login details here.
In addition Oxford Medicine Online has also freed up a collection of online resources and journals addressing COVID-19 in the hope that this information will be useful to medical professionals and carers. Find the resources here.
COVID-19
Mental wellbeing while staying at home
Tips and advice from this NHS website to help keep on top of your mental wellbeing and cope with how you may feel while staying at home.
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Library Bulletins
The Gosall Library, April 2020
This week’s library bulletins are on Suicide Prevention and Community Health
British Journal of Nursing
Leadership in the time of crisis
In this article Sam Foster, Chief Nurse, Oxford University Hospitals, considers what leaders need to do in this time of COVID-19
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BMJ Open
Leadership development in complex health systems: a qualitative study
Objective leadership is associated with organisational performance in healthcare, including quality, safety and clinical outcomes for patients. Leadership development programmes have proliferated in recent years. Nevertheless very few have examined participant experiences in depth in order to understand which programmatic aspects they regard as most valuable relative to leadership in increasingly complex systems, or whether and how learnings may sustain over time. This article explores experiences of participants in an interdisciplinary leadership development programme using qualitative methods over an extended look-back period.
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COVID-19
NHS England and NHS Improvement launches wellbeing support for health staff
A package of wellbeing measures has been launched as part of a bid to support the health service’s 1.4 million staff as they work to tackle the Coronavirus.
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