So here we are again. What should I talk about this week?
While there are several topics I wanted to talk about, I
have decided for one more week to talk about the great things we do.
Friday the 28th of November was the Striving for
Excellence awards, which all the library staff attended (except the new guy)
and all remarked it was brilliant seeing the innovation, effort and quality of
care the staff of SDH make part of their everyday jobs.
Our very own Liam Thornhill (Library Assistant turned IT
Trainer) was a well deserved recipient of the Living the Values award, which he
earned by being everything you might want someone helping you to be. Now I
don’t want him getting a big head, but he’s been doing a great job here for 4
years, and in filling his role, I am constantly asked “oh are you the lovely
young man who helped me last time I was in?”
Now, I am a lovely young man, but I’ve got my work cut out
for me if I hope to follow in his footsteps.
Scoop It!
I also want you to take a look at the Healthcare Library’s
Scoop.it page. It is updated daily with all the latest news from around the
web. The two topics curated on there are SDH news which is a delight to read
about all the good work you folks are doing, and a healthcare app page updated
with information about all the latest apps that can help make clinicians and
their patients lives easier/more contained within their smartphones.
Scoop it is an underused tool that I had never heard of
before I started work here, but I do recommend checking it out. Think of it
more as a Twitter where you follow topics relevant to you rather than people
who post motivational quotes and pictures of kittens. Not that kittens aren’t
relevant, but you get my gist.
Find it here! http://www.scoop.it/t/medical-apps-by-healthcarelibrary
Back on display!
November in the library was “Self-Care Month”. In
conjunction with the week running the 17th to the 23rd of
November we have had a display of tips and tricks to keep you jolly and healthy
throughout winter. Although that display is gone now, you can still get
information on the NHS choices website.
Taking its place once more by our glorious self-issue
machine is the Mood Boosting Book display. Featuring Works by Terry Pratchett,
Victoria Hislop and James Bowden, we have a range of books that will cheer you
up on a dismal British December evening.
Healthcare Current Awareness Bulletins
Our resident librarians remind me of Santa’s elves. Not
because they are short and have high pitched voices, but because they spend a
good portion of their time working on Elfcare , sorry Healthcare Current
Awareness Bulletins.
These Bulletins are tailor made with the latest guidance and
research to help keep you up to date with the most recent developments in the
field of your choice. Want to know more about Urology? Who doesn’t?! You can
find a focused Bulletin on the topic by simply selecting your topics and
emailing them to us at Library.Office@salisbury.nhs.uk.
To save you unnecessary clicking, and because I’m good like
that, here is the list of topics you can get updated with.
Acute and Critical
Care Occupational Health
Alcohol,
Ophthalmology
Burns and Plastics, Orthopaedics
Cleft Lip and Palate, Paediatrics
Dementia, PCI/Cardiology
Dermatology Pharmacy
Diabetes/Endocrinology Public Health
End of Life Care, Rheumatology
Fertility, Spinal
Cord Injuries
Infection Prevention/Control Stroke
Maternity Care Urology
Neonatal Care Wound
Care
Neurology
Then your little bundle of research will turn up in your inbox (stocking) periodically all wrapped up and ready to go. See? Elves.
So there we are. Another week, another series of flippant
remarks and bad irrelevant tangents.
I would love to know what you guys think about the blog, and
if there are any topics you might be interested and want to hear me discuss in
future articles please leave a comment in the comments section.
Equally if you hate what I’m doing with this blog and only
reading in a fit of self-loathing, let me know in the comments. This is the
internet and if someone isn’t calling the author rude names on a public domain
it just feels a bit weird…
Until next time…
Found these blogs for the first time and am impressed, show a new side to the library, I enjoy the style they are written in with a mixture of humour and information. I don't visit the library often but will be checking back here regular. Keep up the weekly updates.
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