hselibrary.ie/SouthEast
Welcome to hselibrary.ie/southeast. Please select from the resources in the panel below, or see our Short Guide to Online Resources for more information.
- A-Z Electronic Journals
- BioMed Central
- Biomedical Reference Collection … on EbscoHost
- BMJ Journals Collection
- BMJ Learning
- Catalogue … *
- Childlink
- CINAHL … on EbscoHost
- Cochrane Library
- Ebsco Discovery
- Intute
- Health Business Elite … on EbscoHost
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Archives
- Lancet
- Lenus.ie
- MD Consult
- MEDLINE … on EbscoHost
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
- Nursing and Allied Health Collection … on EbscoHost
- Nursing Reference Centre
- Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection … on EbscoHost
- PsycINFO … on EbscoHost
- Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures … *
- TRIP Database
- UpToDate … *
Please note: resources marked … * are available on the HSE South East network only.
Library News
New Books, May 2012
The following books, which may be of interest to your area of work, are currently available in the HSE South East Library Service. If you can’t make it to the library in person, please phone (056) 7784174 or email us HERE, and we’ll try to arrange for the book to be sent to your work location. If you’re looking for a subject area or topic not covered in the list below, please email us HERE for assistance.
Safeguarding and Child Protection: 0-8 Years: Linking Theory and Practice / Jennie Lindon
“This is a brilliant book and a godsend for anyone working in child care at any level. This will become the standard for child care: it is quite simply the best book available anywhere on safeguarding children.” Michele Elliott, Founder, Kidscape.
“Safeguarding and Child Protection will provide you with essential information to ensure high standards for child protection across early years settings, schools and play provision. The book covers key legislation and guidance, with clear implications for practice ….”
Examination of the Newborn: an Evidence Based Guide / Anne Lomax
“Examination of the Newborn: an Evidence Based Guide is a practical and comprehensive guide for practitioners to enable them to undertake physical examination of neonates safely and competently. Incorporating: neonatal examination and history taking; development of the heart and lungs and transition to extra uterine life; cardiovascular and respiratory assessment of the baby; assessment of the neonatal skin and jaundice; examination of the eyes head and neck; examination of the abdomen and genitalia; abnormalities of the lower extremities including developmental dysplasia of the hip; the dysmorphic infant and common congenital abnormalities; behavioural issues; professional issues in practice; safeguarding children. Examination of the Newborn provides essential reading for all health care professionals who are continually striving to update their knowledge and contribute to the standardisation of care on a national scale.”
Sleep Disorders: a Clinical Textbook / Antonio Ambrogetti et al.
“This text is divided into two parts. Part 1 focuses on neuroanatomy and the pharmacology of sleep; chronobiology; and investigation of sleep disorders. Part 2 deals with snoring and sleep apnnoeas; medical and surgical treatment of snoring and sleep apnnoeas; abnormal movements during sleep, insomnia, and more.”
Physiotherapy in Orthopaedics: A Problem-Solving Approach / Karen Atkinson et al.
“The authors have drawn on their many years of experience and clinical work in various orthopaedic settings to help with clinical reasoning when faced with apparently diverse patient problems. The content of this book moves from normal to abnormal and from simple to complex. Case studies and self-assessment sections encourage participation by the reader to help students develop a reasoned and logical approach towards the management of their orthopaedic patients.”
New Books, April 2012
The following books, which may be of interest to your area of work, are currently available in the HSE South East Library Service. If you can’t make it to the library in person, please phone (056) 7784174 or email us HERE, and we’ll try to arrange for the book to be sent to your work location. If you’re looking for a subject area or topic not covered in the list below, please email us HERE for assistance.
Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health: Issues and Implications for Practice / Patrick Ryan, Barry J. Coughlan
“This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health practitioners who work with this client group … Throughout the book the contributors emphasise the notion of ‘healthy ageing,’ and the importance and significance of this concept as part of the life-cycle process. As such Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health will be key reading not only for mental health professionals, but also for those involved in policy making for older adults.”
“Ryan and Coughlan are to be congratulated for editing a highly accessible book on ageing and mental health.” Alan Carr, University College Dublin.
Burns: A Practical Approach to Immediate Treatment and Long Term Care / Robert L. Sheridan
“The author emphasizes the fundamental surgical, medical and related procedures involved in each stage of burn care, thus enabling the reader to focus on the essentials, and ensure the best outcome for patients. Chapters range from burn physiology, initial care and resuscitation, to wound evaluation and surgical management, respiratory and critical care, rehabilitation, reconstruction and aftercare. The book’s concise visual approach will appeal to all professionals caring for burn patients in acute or recovery phases. It is of special value to those surgeons, physicians, nurses and related professionals in burn and emergency units.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals / Robert D. Friedberg et al.
“Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Busy Child Psychiatrist and Other Mental Health Professionals is an essential resource for clinical child psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and mental health professionals.”
“This book should be essential reading for all training courses in child CBT. It is truly outstanding. Excellent. A true gem.” Alan Carr, University College Dublin.
Introduction to Pandemic Influenza / J. Van-Tam, C. Sellwood
“Pandemic influenza is an example of an emerging pathogen that could have, and has had, serious public health consequences. Following three global pandemics in the last 100 years and the recent avian and swine influenza outbreaks, preparedness on national and international scales is of vital importance. With a strong emphasis on practical preparedness issues, and covering areas not dealt with by traditional texts, this book covers influenza epidemiology, vaccinology, virology and immunology, pharmaceutical and public health countermeasures, policy issues, biomathematical modelling, ethics and communication between health professionals and the public and promoting the better understanding of influenza that will be needed to battle future pandemics. Each chapter raises five key questions at the beginning and proceeds to answer them in clear and concise sections, also providing selected papers for further reading and detailing relevant modelling studies.”
Clinical Query Worksheet
We’ve created a Clinical Query Worksheet – available in the Helpsheets, Tutorials, Documents panel opposite – which should be of assistance to you in: 1. formulating an answerable clinical question; and 2. tracking down best evidence.
Our worksheet includes: roughwork space to construct a ‘PICO’ for your search; space to categorize your question type; a summary of the ‘Pyramid of Evidence’ and tips on where/how to source the various levels of evidence; links to and a summary toolkit from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) website.
For further information or assistance, please contact your local HSE South East library.
Clinical Queries Service
The Clinical Queries service is based on the first two steps of the University of Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) method: EBP Step 1 – Formulate an Answerable Question; EBP Step 2 – Track Down the Best Evidence.
How does it work? Firstly, send us your question by completing a simple online form at the Clinical Queries tab above. Alternatively, phone (056) 7784174 to let us know the details of your question, or email the library at Clinical.Queries@hse.ie. The library will assign your query to one of the following question types: Intervention; Aetiology/Risk Factors; Diagnosis; Prognosis/Prediction; Frequency/Rate; Phenomena. We’ll analyse your query according to the “PICO” algorithm: Population/Problem; Intervention/Indicator; Comparator/Control; Outcome. We’ll conduct a detailed subject search on the most relevant primary database: MEDLINE for medical questions; CINAHL for questions related to nursing or allied health; PSYCINFO for questions related to mental health. We’ll conduct a secondary keyword search of other resources such as Cochrane, UpToDate, MD Consult, guidelines, etc., as appropriate. Finally, the library will collate a selection of relevant results and return to you with details of the search strategy used and resources searched.
To log a search with the service, go to the Clinical Queries tab above, phone (056) 7784174 or email us at Clinical.Queries@hse.ie. Questions will be allocated to library staff in the order they are received; however, precedence will be given to questions directly related to patient care.
Disclaimer: it is not the intention of the Clinical Queries service to provide authoritative medical advice or practice guidelines, but to make available information that may assist in understanding clinical questions and/or contribute to evidence-based patient care. When using the Clinical Queries service, please remember that: search results provided may not constitute all that is available on a given subject or question; the inclusion of particular search results does not imply approval or recommendation by the library service; the library service does not provide medical advice or interpretation of information.
Welcome to hselibrary.ie/SouthEast
Welcome to hselibrary.ie.
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