Getting the most out of your library
Training and skills support
The library offers specialist information skills training and research advice to all Gateshead Health NHS staff and students on placement.
Training sessions usually take place in the Library IT Training room and are offered to groups and on a 1-1 basis.
Scheduled sessions available include:
This workshop provides the skills you need to carry out a basic search on NHS Evidence and healthcare databases.
At the end of the session you will be able to:
- Register for an Athens username and password
- Carry out a basic subject search on NHS Evidence and the healthcare databases
- Access NHS and library full text articles
The aim of this session is to ensure that participants have an understanding of the process of literature searching and feel confident in devising and carrying out effective searches.
At the end of this session you will be able to:
- Formulate clinical questions
- Devise search strategies based on these questions
- Apply searching skills using NHS Evidence and healthcare databases
This session is aimed at Healthcare professionals or managers who are new to critical appraisal. It will examine the principles of critical appraisal to support evidence-based practice. Part of the session involves facilitated critical appraisal of a clinical paper. As a group, participants will share experience and knowledge in order to critically appraise a published paper.
By the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Use the CASP checklist to identify key issues to consider when appraising randomised controlled trials
- Understand some of the basic statistics quoted in clinical papers e.g. relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat and confidence intervals
- Interpret the evidence from research papers and decide whether it could be used locally to improve healthcare outcomes
This session provides an overview of Endnote reference management software.
By the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Download references from online sources into an Endnote Library
- Create folders within a library to organise references
- Import references from the library into Word documents using the “cite while you write” facility
This training session will cover:
- The principles and importance of correct referencing
- How to reference a book and journal article using the Harvard referencing style
- Locate books and journal articles from a reading list
- Carry out a search for journal articles on health databases such as Cinahl and Medline
Current Awareness
The library can help you keep up to date with the latest research and developments in your area. Receive Tables of Contents from special interest journals and the latest published research articles delivered right to your desktop.
KnowledgeShare is a targeted current awareness service identifying the latest in high level evidence, guidelines and policy documents appropriate to your professional interests.
KnowledgeShare connects you with your local NHS library and knowledge service and can help you find colleagues with shared interests, helping to spread innovation and collaborate on service improvement.
Sign in with your NHS OpenAthens user ID and password to edit or manage your existing KnowledgeShare account. No KnowledgeShare account? Sign up now!
Complete the personalised alerts form to request library staff forward relevant journal contents pages and/or set up tailored alerts from databases such as Medline, Cinahl etc
