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Click on this link to register with us! Registered members may borrow up to 10 books at one time.

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All Medway NHS Foundation Trust staff, students on placement at the hospital and other NHS staff working across the Medway health economy, may apply to register.

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Library resources for nursing and midwifery

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Finding information
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
Connecting you seamlessly to a range of high-quality knowledge and evidence resources all in one place, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a single gateway to 1000s of journals, ebooks, clinical decision support and databases like CINAHL and Medline.

For quick access to high-quality clinical evidence, guidelines and systematic reviews, try Trip.

For more advanced searching, use CINAHL, British Nursing Index, AMED and Emcare. Go to our Resources for advanced searching page for more information and links to training.

If you're new to literature searching, or need a refresher, why not try this e-learning course: How to search the literature effectively.

Clinical decision support and evidence summaries

BMJ Best Practice is an award-winning online decision-support tool for use at the point of care. BMJ Best Practice draws on the latest evidence-based research to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. It gives you a second opinion in an instant and supports your continuing professional development.

Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been the definitive guide to clinical nursing skills for over three decades. Written by nurses, for nurses, it sets the gold standard for effective, patient-focussed nursing care and includes over 350 evidence-based clinical procedures related to every aspect of care, from handwashing to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Clinical Knowledge Summaries is geared towards primary care practitioners and provides accessible summaries of the current evidence base and practical guidance on over 370 topics.

Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines is the essential evidence-based prescribing guidelines on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents.

e-books and journals

You have access to thousands of journals in nursing and midwifery. It's easy to access articles through the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and databases for advanced searching. You can also install LibKey Nomad on your device for easy access to journal literature when you search the web and platforms like Google Scholar.
OUP handbooks and textbooks
All staff and students on placement in the NHS have access to a collection of Oxford Medicine e-books including over 20 titles for nurses and midwives such as:

Emergencies in Adult Nursing

Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing

Oxford Handbook of Midwifery

Kortext is an e-book platform that gives you access to hundreds of books for NHS staff and learners including collections on sustainability, wellbeing and resilience and equality and diversity. There are lots of books on the Kortext platform for nurses and midwives including:

Nurses' clinical decision making

The nurse mentor's handbook

Communication in Nursing and Healthcare

Critical resilience for nurses

How to survive your nursing or midwifery course

Leadership, management and team working in nursing

Midwifery skills at a glance

Watch this short video to learn more.

Health literacy and patient information

Did you know that 43% of adults aged 16-65 struggle with text-based health information and that increases to 61% if the information also includes numbers?

If you want to know more, take this 30 minute e-learning course which includes simple tools that can help increase understanding.

We have also co-produced two easy read guides to download and share designed to help people to navigate healthcare. 'Get ready to talk about your health' prepares people for what to do before they go for a consultation with any health or care provider. ' 3 questions for better health' suggests important questions to ask during an appointment.

To help you, your patients and their families and carers with general health and wellbeing we have collected books and online links - take a look at our Uplifting Resources and Your Health Collection.

Learning from 'know how'

Some knowledge is not published but is individual or organisational 'know how'. The NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework is designed to help you develop and use skills to mobilise knowledge effectively to help sharing and learning.

What else can I expect from my library?

Your local NHS knowledge and library service can help you to make the most of these resources. They will often offer additional services including carrying out evidence searches and helping you to keep up-to-date. Visit your library for space to study, work and connect with your peers and the evidence.

Download the flyer

We have summarised this information in a PDF with live links to some of the key information above.
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Some staff and learners need to carry out complex, robust and reproduceable searches including for systematic review and informing research. These advanced searches should be conducted in bibliographic databases such as Medline, Embase and CINAHL.
What bibliographic databases are available?
AMED - allied and complementary medicine including palliative care

BNI - nursing, midwifery and community healthcare

CINAHL - nursing and allied health

Embase - biomedical and pharmaceutical literature

Emcare - nursing and allied health

HMIC - healthcare management

Medline - biomedical, life sciences, allied health and pre-clinical sciences literature

PsycInfo - psychology, behavioural sciences and related disciplines

Social Policy and Practice - health and social care
Where do I find these databases?
EBSCO CINAHL and Medline

ProQuest BNI, Medline and PsychInfo

Wolters Kluwer (Ovid) AMED, Embase, Emcare, HMIC, Medline and Social Policy and Practice

To access these databases, you will need an NHS OpenAthens account.
Register for your free NHS OpenAthens account Check your eligibility for an NHS OpenAthens account Where can I find support materials for these databases?
If you're new to literature searching, or need a refresher, why not take a look at our e-learning programme, How to Search the Literature Effectively? This will help you build confidence to search published literature for articles and evidence.

EBSCO Interface

Ovid Interface

ProQuest Interface
Where can I get more help with advanced searching?
Specialists at your local health library can also do expert searches, provide search skills training, and help you keep up to date via current awareness services. Search the directory to find your nearest health library.

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Resources for advanced searching - Knowledge and Library Services

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Click on this link to find our Literature Search Request Form, just complete this and one of our Librarians will support.

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The LKS can conduct literature searching to find the evidence you need for an informed decision.

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The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff and learners to high quality knowledge and evidence resources in one place.

Funded by Health Education England, it includes:

journals, books and databases

clinical decision support resources including NICE Guidelines and BMJ Best Practice

policy and management information and research literature

resources purchased nationally and locally

one-click links to full-text, request a copy or contact an NHS library

Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners using your NHS OpenAthens account.

Don’t yet have an account?  Register for NHS OpenAthens

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The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects health cares staff and learners to high quality, NHS-funded, knowledge and evidence resources in one place, using a single search.

The 'Hub'

includes all journal articles, e-books, guidelines and evidence summary tools provided nationally and by your local NHS library team

provides seamless access to full text, as an immediate download or on request from an NHS library

avoids the less-reliable sources you might find in a general web search.

Easier access to e-journals

For seamless links, where you want them, install LibKey Nomad on your PC or laptop. Choose your library (or type NHS England) and find your links in PubMed, Google Scholar and many other sites. Or use BrowZine to browse and read the journals you have access to.

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The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects health cares staff and learners to high quality, NHS-funded, knowledge and evidence resources in one place, using a single search.

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Hadeel Alsaleh, Amy K. Drahota, Julie Udell

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JFSF - Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls

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International Journal of Nursing Older People

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International Journal of Nursing Older People

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British Geriatrics Society - Frailty Hub

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British Geriatrics Society - Frailty Hub

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This page brings together articles, national guidelines and best practice relevant to frailty and is frequently reviewed and updated by the BGS Clinical Quality Committee and the Frailty in Urgent Care Settings Special Interest Group (SIG).

The hub consists of six areas:

Introduction to frailty
Where you can find out what frailty is, and how it can be diagnosed and managed.

Frailty in specific settings
Here you can find resources on frailty in settings including care home medicine, emergency medicine, frailty units and community.
Resources relevant to specialised services such as diabetes, heart failure and oncology can also be found here.

Setting up and developing frailty services
Useful information to help you set up a frailty service, with examples of best practice, service development, and business cases.

Frailty and the NHS
An area of the hub focusing on the national picture.
Here you can find publications by NHS England, NICE, GIRFT, NHS RightCare and NHS Benchmarking.

Research
The latest research on frailty published by the BGS journal Age and Ageing.

You can use the links above or below to access the sections within the frailty hub. If you have any suggestions of materials you think should appear on these pages, please scientificofficer [at] (subject: Frailty%20Hub%20suggestion) (email us) .

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Frailty Hub | British Geriatrics Society

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This page brings together articles, national guidelines and best practice relevant to frailty and is frequently reviewed and updated by the BGS Clinical Quality Committee and the Frailty in Urgent Care Settings Special Interest Group (SIG). The hub consists of six areas: Introduction to frailty Where you can find out what frailty is, and how it can be diagnosed and managed.

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Frailty: research shows how to improve care

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Frailty: research shows how to improve care

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Frailty: research shows how to improve care

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Frailty is not an inevitable consequence of ageing. Our new Collection explores frailty research and how to improve support and care

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Improving care and support for people with frailty

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Improving care and support for people with frailty

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Making the case for action

People with frailty are at risk of falls. They're also at risk of developing conditions such as anxiety and depression, and are more likely to have unplanned hospital admissions. Identifying people with frailty and improving their care and support are therefore priorities for the health and care system.

The NHS Long Term Plan outlines how people identified as having the greatest risks and needs will be offered targeted support for both their physical and mental health needs, including frailty. It also includes an aim for all major A&E departments to set up an acute frailty service to ensure people with frailty receive the most appropriate care quickly.

NHS England describes frailty as a loss of resilience that means people don't bounce back quickly after a physical or mental illness, an accident or other stressful event. Its advice is based on the British Geriatric Society's Fit for Frailty model. This involves the following steps, which together spell FRAIL:

Find.

Recognise frailty in a person.

Assess - a multidisciplinary assessment involving a geriatrician, allied health professionals, specialist nurses, and mental health and social work teams. The aim is to identify and manage long-term health conditions, identify goals and develop a personalised care and support plan.

Intervene - for example, a falls risk assessment and a multimorbidity review.

Long-term.

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Improving care and support for people with frailty

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People with frailty are at risk of falls. They're also at risk of developing conditions such as anxiety and depression, and are more likely to have unplanned hospital admissions. Identifying people with frailty and improving their care and support are therefore priorities for the health and care system.

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This guideline covers optimising care for adults with multimorbidity (multiple long-term conditions) by reducing treatment burden (polypharmacy and multiple appointments) and unplanned care. It aims to improve quality of life by promoting shared decisions based on what is important to each person in terms of treatments, health priorities, lifestyle and goals. The guideline sets out which people are most likely to benefit from an approach to care that takes account of multimorbidity, how they can be identified and what the care involves.

Recommendations

This guideline includes recommendations on:

Who is it for?

Healthcare professionals

People with multimorbidity, their families and carers

Guideline development process
How we develop NICE guidelines
Your responsibility

The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.

All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.

Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.

Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.

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This guideline covers optimising care for adults with multimorbidity (multiple long-term conditions) by reducing treatment burden (polypharmacy and multiple

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All NICE products on older people. Includes any guidance, advice and quality standards.

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All NICE products on delirium. Includes any guidance and quality standards.

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All NICE products on urinary incontinence. Includes any guidance, advice and quality standards.

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All NICE products on faecal incontinence. Includes any guidance, advice and quality standards.

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Falls prevention in hospital: a guide for patients, their families and carers

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Falls prevention in hospital: a guide for patients, their families and carers

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Falls prevention in hospital: a guide for patients, their families and carers

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Falls prevention in hospital: a guide for patients, their families and carers (reviewed in September 2022) has been designed to help prevent serious injury and unnecessary cost to the NHS caused by older people tripping or falling when they are in hospital.

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This information is for anyone who has experienced delirium, knows someone with delirium or is looking after people with delirium.

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A strategy for the development and/or improvement of acute frailty same day emergency care services.

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Resources - Specialised Clinical Frailty Network

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Resources - Specialised Clinical Frailty Network

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SCFN Toolkit

The SCFN is very pleased to share a revised edition of the Specialised Clinical Frailty Toolkit, building on the learning made with our sites in Waves Three and Four. By making frailty 'everybody's business' in specialised services, care for older people who are frail should be significantly improved. The aim of this Toolkit is to develop the most appropriate pathways for frail patients in specialised services and to get the best outcomes possible for them.

This Toolkit is for anyone involved in the design or delivery of specialised services, working with older people with frailty. You will find the guide useful if you are a clinician, manager, administrator, commissioner, information analyst or healthcare student. We hope the resources collated in this guide help inspire other specialised service teams to improve their services for the frailer individual, as the examples included can be broadened to other service pathways, including those that involve the delivery of more complex care.

We have have also created a range of fully customisable packages to support frontline teams adopt the SCFN Toolkit, and to improve pathways in specialised services for older people living with frailty. A variety of package options are available and you can select from this list or talk to us about a combination of elements. Further information is available here.

The Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale, Professor Ken Rockwood, Dalhousie University
(Professor Rockwood's team are happy to share the CFS for noncommercial, educational, clinical and research use. To guard against copyright infringement or unlicensed commercial use, colleagues are asked to contact the team that originally developed this, before use: Sherri.Fay@nshealth.ca or if no reply Kenneth.Rockwood@Dal.Ca) here

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