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.
Please note: resources marked ... * are available on the HSE South East network only.
- 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
- Medicines.ie
- 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 OvidSP
- Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures … *
- TRIP Database
- UpToDate
Library News
New Books, May 2013
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.
Rapid Interpretation of ECGs in Emergency Medicine: A Visual Guide / Jennifer L. Martindale and David F.M. Brown
Description: For a busy clinician in the Emergency Department, the ability to spot a lethal cardiac condition is critical. Rapid Interpretation of ECGs in Emergency Medicine fills a gap in ECG training in an easy-to-use, highly visual format. ECG patterns, gathered from patient records and from the files of physicians at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals, represent the range of pathologies that hospitalists, internal medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, and emergency medicine physicians must recognize. The format of Rapid Interpretation of ECGs in Emergency Medicine is to first show an ECG in its native state to give you the chance to recognize and interpret salient features. The page can then be flipped to look at the same ECG with abnormal patterns enlarged, highlighted in color, and described in brief text. The ECGs are presented with and without annotations so you can test your diagnostic skills.
The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition / Carl Jung
Description: The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C.G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his theories that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality. As Sara Corbett wrote in The New York Times, “The creation of one of modern history’s true visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of categorization … It transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung’s place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and Freud.” The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition features Sonu Shamdasani’s introductory essay and the full translation of Jung’s vital work in one volume.
ABC of Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Christopher Burton
Description: Distressing for the patient and difficult to deal with, medically unexplained symptoms present one of the biggest challenges in primary care. ABC of Medically Unexplained Symptoms is a clear and practical guide to the identification and management of patients with symptoms not adequately explained by disease. It provides an overview of general principles and techniques and discusses in detail specific common symptoms such as headache, pain, breathlessness, fatigue and dizziness. It covers vital information on the assessment of symptoms, provides constructive explanations, and describes cognitive, behavioural and pharmacological approaches to treatment. Recognising the particular challenges that medically unexplained symptoms represent, it explains how to communicate with patients and involve them in managing their own symptoms.
The Developing Person Through the Life Span / Kathleen Stassen Berger
Description: Edition after edition Kathleen Stassen Berger’s perennial bestseller, The Developing Person Through the Life Span, re-establishes itself as the most authoritative, engaging, and teachable textbook available for the life span course. The new edition is no exception. The book’s thoroughly updated coverage makes the latest scientific and theoretical developments about the brain, genetics, and cultural diversity accessible and meaningful. The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. It also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application.
New Books, April 2013
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.
Tyldesley and Grieve’s Muscles, Nerves and Movement in Human Occupation / Ian McMillan et al.
Description: Now in its fourth edition Tyldesley and Grieve’s Muscles, Nerves and Movement has established itself as the leading textbook for the study of movement by occupational therapists. The book provides a sound understanding of the way in which bones, joints, muscles and nerves allow the body to perform movement during daily activities. Early chapters provide a foundation for the study of movement, with the complexity of detail increasing as the book progresses. Functional anatomy is related to the movements of daily living and is supported by activities for experiencing and observing the way we perform everyday tasks. Later chapters consider the integration of sensory and motor processes for the planning and execution of movement.
Sleep: Multi-professional Perspectives / Andrew Green and Alex Westcombe
Description: This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume. This important multidisciplinary volume opens with a look at the history of sleep, both in literature and in life, and goes on to consider sociological aspects. Sleep problems, sleep quality and the effects of drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are all discussed, together with the importance of sleep for daytime performance and the science of the human body clock. Medication and polysomnography (measuring sleep) are also explored, alongside forensic aspects of sleep, and how it can be affected by medical and psychiatric conditions. This groundbreaking and insightful book will be of great interest to professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and anyone else who wishes to discover more about this fascinating topic.
Communication Skills for Children’s Nurses / Veronica Lambert, Tony Long, Deirdre Kelleher
Description: This guide will help children’s nurses to communicate with confidence, sensitivity and effectiveness to meet the individual needs of children and their families. The book explores different aspects of communicating in this challenging environment using vignettes, examples, practice insights and tips. The book emphasises the importance of listening to and respecting children’s views and rights, in addition to respecting parent responsibility, rights and duty to act in the child’s best interests. The authors show how a balance between protective exclusion and facilitated inclusion is core to communicating with children and families. Key topics covered include: communicating during challenging and sensitive times; the importance of being culturally sensitive and self-aware; meeting the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged children; engaging with children who experience difficulty in communicating; ethical and legal dimensions of communicating with families; appreciating the nature of voice in research with children.
Being Human: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives / Richard Gross
Description: Richard Gross turns his expert eye to the psychology of human nature in a contemplative account encompassing cognition, consciousness, language, time perception, sense of mortality and human society. This book will help you to consider the unique aspects of being human and to understand the biological underpinnings for the intriguing and distinct behaviours and experiences common to human beings. The book is enhanced throughout by: its logical arrangement of topics, with key questions, issues for additional focus and reflection points highlighted throughout; useful chapter introductions and summaries to provide clarity and insight; diagrams to help explain difficult concepts; detailed selection of references and useful sources including works from the fields of psychology, philosophy, religion and literature.
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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