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Following on from this week’s Health and Care Wellbeing Festival, two of the speakers featured have books available for loan in Telford and Shrewsbury Health Libraries.
They touch on Self Confidence and Mindfulness and are part of a number of books available in our Mental Health and Leadership section.
Ruby Wax
How To Be Human
A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled
Sane New World: Taming the Mind
Paul McGee
How to Speak so People Really Listen
Shut Up Move On (SUMO)
Self Confidence
A peer assist is a knowledge management tool where peers (perhaps four or five people) from another team are invited to share insights, experience and knowledge at a facilitated meeting.
This might be to support a team that are looking to embark on a project or service change, or that have a specific problem or challenge, and want to know what worked (or what didn't) from another team that has similar experience. A peer assist can bring knowledge and experience to the point of need.
Peer assists allow people to learn from other people's experiences and knowledge, establish an open culture of learning, support networking, and stimulate new perspectives. They are part of the process of 'learning before doing' and are about gathering knowledge before embarking on an activity or project, or when facing a difficulty in the course of related events.
The home team asking for the peer assist needs to have clear objectives of what they want to gain from the meeting. Peers can come from within the organisation, or outside it, but are people with experience of the issue.
Meeting can be face-to-face or virtual, and the time can be anything from 1.5 hours to half a day (or even longer if necessary!). Flipcharts are ideal for face-to-face meetings, but someone on the home team should take detailed notes as well.
It's important to remember that as well learning from experience, the evidence base needs to be taken into consideration as well when making decisions. Library staff are able to conduct evidence searches to support decision-making, or find case studies or what worked elsewhere.
Peer assists are not peer reviews - the visiting team are not coming to critique the home team, but to transfer knowledge.
SaTH Health libraries provide more than 16,000 e-Books which you can access remotely. The main platforms we use for e-Books are ProQuest Ebook Central, Kortext, Wiley and Oxford Medicine Online though you may also find open access books. Access a wealth of information instantly using your Open Athens account.
Keyword search using the BOOKS tab on our Omnisearch page, and narrow down to eBooks which are held at Shropshire Health Libraries and any date requirements. Read online instantly or download to read on the go. Need more information? Click here.
If you need an Open Athens account, contact Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries.
Telford Health Library sath.telford.library@nhs.net ext 4440
Shrewsbury Health Library sath.shrewsbury.library@nhs.net ext 2512
From now until the end of July, Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries are doing a survey about what you think of us, and we'd love to know your views.
We’ll be using the responses to help us plan and improve our services into the future, so whether you think our libraries are wonderful, or perhaps not so good, tell us what you think! It should only take a few minutes to complete.
We’d also like to know how library services have benefited patient care, research, education and training, or your continuing professional development, so we can demonstrate the impact we have in these areas.
The responses can be anonymous, but you can add your name and email if you'd like feedback on your comments.
Discover what your Health Library can do for you.
Displays at Telford and Shrewsbury Health Libraries – and look out for us during the week in the Apley Restaurant corridor at PRH too
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Giving you the gift of time ……..
Saving you time to care for your patients ……..
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Support your well-being with a range of Uplifting Resources for the NHS from the NHS
SaTH Health Libraries are staffed 8.30 – 17.00 Monday to Friday. Ask if you need 24 hour access.
A big thank you to everyone who took part in Telford Health Library's plant sale last week. Your kind donations reached a magnificent £140 which will go to the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. We plan to sponsor a pine marten, dormouse, bilberry bumble bee, hedgehog, barn owl and a Stiperstone holly tree!
Gardening ... boosts mood ... relieves stress ... builds strength ... creates calm
Telford health Library will be holding a Plant "Swap and buy" starting Tuesday 15 June - until stock runs out.
Choose seedlings, cuttings and plants to fill your garden with colour this summer - and a few veg too! No set prices. All donations will go to Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Opening hours 8.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday
Prize competition
Win a garden voucher by solving the clues and identifying the garden plants. Download the competition here. Good luck!
COVID-19 can cause symptoms that last weeks or months after the infection has gone. This is sometimes called post-COVID-19 syndrome, chronic COVID syndrome, or 'Long Covid'. The Office for National Statistics estimates that over the four-week period ending 6 March 2021, an estimated 1.1 million people in private households in the UK reported experiencing Long Covid.
Save time when looking for evidence and guidance around Long Covid. As well as including lots of new Long Covid resources in our COVID-19 Evidence Bulletin, we also have a Long Covid evidence resources page where we've collated some of the best guidance and resources on topics such as prevalance, rehabilitation, health services and resources for people living with the condition.
The UpToDate clinical decision support tool provides evidence-based advice on over 11,000 topics to support the diagnoses, treatment and management of common and rare conditions. It can be accessing onsite via the Intranet, or off-site using an NHS OpenAthens account or a personal account created onsite. Mobile apps are also available, and for more information on the various ways to access UpToDate, visit our UpToDate page.
UpToDate are offering a free 30-minute live training session to help you make the best use of UpToDate and explore some of the ways it can help you. Topics covered include:
The training is on Tuesday, May 18th at 2.30pm and is being carried on Microsoft Teams. To join, simply follow this link at the time - there is no need to book.
We've just added another package of new e-books to our collection, spanning titles from Wiley publishers from 2017 owards, for instant access to a range of textbooks covering all subject areas, including medicine and nursing. All of these are searchable on our discovery system alongside all our other print and e-books, and it's easy to search using the Books tab on OmniSearch.
All the books in the collection can be accessed with an NHS OpenAthens account and the books are available to staff and students of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.
Here are just a small selection of the e-books now available in this collection:
To open a book, click the link and then select the link to 'Sign in with your OpenAthens account'. Enter your account details and you'll then have full access to the book, including the ability to download whole chapters as PDF files.
There is no mobile app, but the site is optimised for mobile devices.
