Author: Sarah Rochelle

Access to e-books, online magazines and audiobooks for patients

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Don’t get bored while you are in hospital. Download eBooks, eAudio and eMagazines FREE from your local public library services.

Use your existing membership number to log in or, if you are not already a member, just join online and instantly get access to thousands of titles for all tastes and ages, from 0 – 120.

Children’s book selection – whether you are looking for an old favourite or wanting to discover something new, just browse or do a search. From Roald Dahl to Jacqueline Wilson, from Julia Donaldson to David Walliams, there are thousands to choose from.

Adults’ book selection – crime, thrillers, romance, modern tales, horror and classics… the range just goes on and on.

Why buy magazines when you can read them completely FREE. Find something to suit all tastes – gardening, TV, gossip, science, cooking, crafts, fitness and so much more.

Click here for an easy step-by-step guide to the eBooks, eAudio and eMagazines services provided by Shropshire Libraries and Telford & Wrekin Libraries. If you are a member of another library service, check out their website as most authorities provide an eService.

Download a step-by-step guide

Join Shropshire Libraries | Access Shropshire Libraries' e-library
Join Telford & Wrekin Libraries | Access Telford & Wrekin Libraries' e-library

BMJ Best Practice

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BMJ Best Practice provides access to the latest evidence-based information for healthcare professionals,  with advice on symptom evaluation, test ordering, treatment approach and follow up. It also offers clinical calculators, patient information leaflets and some procedural videos.

BMJ Best Practice offers

  • Daily updates of evidence summaries covering over 1,000 conditions
  • 250 clinical calculators
  • 400 patient leaflets
  • Procedural videos and images
  • Links to BNF and BNF for Children for drug information, and Cochrane Clinical Answers for more evidence

Ask at Shrewsbury or Telford Health Library if you need help or more information. 

Confused by Medical Terminology?

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Are you regularly working with medical terminology but not medically trained?  Are you sometimes confounded and bamboozled by medical terms and doctors’ jargon?

Your Health Library can help!  We have a selection of books on medical terminology, explaining how conditions and treatments get their names, as well as the Latin and Greek components that are used to create them. Splitting the word into its parts very often makes it so much easier to understand – and to type too!

Confused by PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA?

PHEO-                   means dusky

-CHROMO-           means colour

-CYT-                      refers to a cell

-OMA                      a suffix meaning tumour

Visit SaTH Health Libraries today.  We are staffed 8.30 – 17.00 Monday to Friday.

OR join the library online

Bust that medical jargon!

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Doctor Jargon - A new game available to borrow from Telford Health Library.

Practice communicating without using jargon!

It is all too easy to assume that patients will understand medical descriptions and technical terms but they are often just left bamboozled and confused, and are too embarrassed to ask for clarification. This game gets you to practice busting that jargon and explaining conditions and  treatment  in normal everyday language without slipping into those medical terms you use with colleagues.  Work as individuals or in teams to describe medical terminology without using key jargon and specialist language.

Can you describe MEASLES without using the words VIRUS, FEVER, IMMUNISATION, CONTAGIOUS  or CONJUNCTIVITIS?

How would you describe ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY without mentioning ULTRASOUND, CARDIAC, DOPPLER, VALVE or DIAGNOSIS?

Why not try it in a group of colleagues or at an update meeting - a fun way to practice good patient communication skills.

The Sepsis Game

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To tie in with Wear Red Day, why not learn more about sepsis in an entertaining way.

Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries stock a range of educational board games including The Sepsis Game.

Play in the library or borrow it for your department to improve your knowledge together.

 

Relax with a good book

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SaTH Health Libraries are not just about medical and management titles.  We also have a range of leisure books to help you escape into another world.

Grab a biography.... get caught up in a murder ..... go off on an adventure ..... curl up with a romance.....

We even have a collection of "Quick Reads" to fit in with your busy life.  All the excitement  but in a short sharp format.

Relax and chill with a good book!

 

Healthy Lives Collections at Telford and Shrewsbury Health Libraries

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Look out for promotions, displays, books and masses of handy take-away leaflets on a variety of health topics to help staff and patients maintain a healthy lifestyle.

For example:

  • Diet and diabetes
  • Giving up smoking
  • Mindfulness
  • Dementia
  • and much more...

Come along and investigate our Healthy Lives collections for lots of information to help maintain a better style of living.

Flash Cards available to borrow from Telford Health Library

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Boxes of themed flashcards are available to borrow from SaTH Health Libraries.  They are packs of short sharp facts to help you gain skills quickly and easily – ideal study aids.  They are perfect for revision or to update your skills base. Titles include:

Gray’s Anatomy for Students

Netter’s Anatomy

Netter’s Physiology

Case Cards – common consulting challenges

Visit our catalogue to request and renew titles.

 

 

Reminiscence Boxes to borrow

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Borrow reminiscence books and themed boxes to use with an individual or a group.  They are ideal for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Accessible and entertaining, they improve engagement between staff and patients, evoking memories and encouraging communication.

Themed boxes include: The Garden, Childhood, The Beach and Household

 

 

 

 

Check out the full list of available books in the “Pictures to Share” series

Ebooks available for instant download

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Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries offer access to thousands of e-Books covering a whole range of topics - ideal for reading on the go! Trusted content from authoritative scholarly sources and on a wide range of health related subjects.  Search the e-Books collection by keyword to read online or download to your device.  You will need your OpenAthens log-in to access the titles.  Ask library staff if you need any help.

Browse the e-Book selection on our website