Christmas Opening Arrangements

The Health Library at County will remain open to users over the Christmas and New Year period. Access will be via swipe card at the Oakridge entrance as the PGMC building is closed. The library will be unstaffed however from 2.30 pm on 23rd December until 08.30 am on Monday 4th January. Out of hours access arrangements for evenings and weekends continue as normal (please contact the library if you would like out of hours access). If you have any queries during this time we will be monitoring the mailbox library@uhnm.nhs.uk  intermittently. 

There are also changes to opening hours at Health Library (Royal Stoke). Please see https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/openinghours/christmasopeninghours/ for their opening hours.

Merry Christmas

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The Library Team

Careful phrasing of requests by hospital staff could help people with dementia accept care

 

A recent study by NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) published on 14 December has been looking at communication between health care professionals and hospital patients with dementia:

"More than a quarter of hospital patients have dementia and many refuse food, drink, medication or requests to be examined. This presents healthcare professionals with a dilemma. They need to strike a balance between respecting a patient’s wishes, while also delivering effective care.

New research looked at the different ways of asking people with dementia to perform tasks or to agree to requests while they are in hospital. It found that having a range of ways of making requests led to more positive responses from patients who were confused or resisting care.

Professionals' phrasing, tone and question construction altered the chance of a positive response. Phrases such as “I was wondering…” displayed doubt and increased refusals. By contrast, “I am just going to…Is that alright?” implied that a task was about to happen and increased agreement.

The findings have been used to develop training materials to help professionals improve the way they communicate with hospital patients who have dementia".

Read the full report on their research on the NIHR website here: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/hospital-patients-dementia-careful-phrasing-cut-refusals/

New Books

 

We are continually refreshing our book collections.Here are some recent additions to our nursing collection and to our leisure reading section now available for loan (if you are reading this as an email you may need to click through to our blog site to see the pictures in full https://countyhealthlibrary.blogspot.com):

Literature search webinars

The Health Library training team are delivering some 1.5 hour webinars on literature search skills during December which are free to NHS staff. Book online and choose your date (7th,11th or 15th) times vary. The webinar  is aimed at staff who want to conduct a literature search using Medline or other major healthcare databases which can currently be accessed via HDAS using an Athens log-in.

It will be delivered via Microsoft Teams but you do not need to have Teams downloaded. You will be sent a link. Go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/findaform/booknhs-basedwebinar/ to reserve your place.