E-books

UHNM Health Libraries have several collections of ebooks including Oxford handbooks online, Kortext and Clinical Key. Each of these platforms contain many of the latest texts that UHNM staff can access online, all you need is an OpenAthens password. The Kortext collection contains many popular titles for nursing and allied health professional such as the "...at a glance" series whilst Clinical Key contains a wide range of texts relating to medicine, surgery, diagnostics and more.

Take a look at our webpage about e-books to find out more and access our e-books at home or work:

https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/ebooks/

Staffed Hours Week beginning 22nd February

 Library staffed opening hours for the week beginning 22nd Feb are shown below (if you are receiving this in an email you may need to click on the post title to view in full).  Please note that the library remains open 24/7 to members who have requested full access, otherwise the building can be accessed during PGMC opening hours Mon-Fri.

British Journal of Healthcare Assistants

The Health Libraries at UHNM subscribe to the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. Access articles in full by logging in with your OpenAthens password. You can also receive the table of contents as an email when new issues are published to save you time checking back for articles of interest. Ask library staff if you need help to do this

Articles in the latest issue include the following:

   Write and wrong
   Peter Bradley
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 5-5.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.5?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   Catheterisation without pain: the HCA challenge
 
   Paul Burgess
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 6-14.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.6?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   Rare health conditions 42: clinical supervision and its importance
 
   Chris Barber
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 16-20.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.16?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   Series 5, chronic wounds; part 4h. Pressure ulcer care of the obese
   patient
 
   Menna Lloyd Jones
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 22-25.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.22?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   LGBTQ+ people living with dementia: an under-served population
 
   Emily Cousins, Kay De Vries, and Karen Harrison Dening
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 26-35.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.26?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   Enhancing empathy through experiential learning—managing incontinence.
   2/2
 
   Angela Grainger
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 36-40.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.36?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   Implementing the duty of candour: a guide for healthcare support staff
 
   Alan Glasper
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 41-45.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.41?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   How world policy affects the equitable distribution of the COVID-19
   vaccine. Pt 1
 
   Sarah Jane Palmer
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 46-47.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.46?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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   One for all and all for one
 
   Linda Nazarko
   British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Vol. 15, No. 1: 50-50.
   https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/10.12968/bjha.2021.15.1.50?ai=ta&ui=geq4&af=T
 
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Staffed hours 15-19th Feb

Library staffed opening hours for the week beginning 15th Feb are shown below (if you are receiving this in an email you may need to click on the post title to view in full).  Please note that the library remains open 24/7 to members who have requested full access, otherwise the building can be accessed during PGMC opening hours Mon-Fri.

E-books

As well as our physical print bookstock, UHNM staff also have access to a wide array of e-books which can be read on line and sometimes downloaded. All you need to access them is an OpenAthens password.

If you haven't got an OpenAthens password you can self-register using your uhnm email address here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk// (there is more help should you need it here: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/training/onlineguidesandsupport/athens/ )

Clinical Key

Besides journal articles there are lots and lots of the latest ebooks available via our subscription to Clinical Key on a wide range of clinical topics. Take a look at our guides to Clinical Key here: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/training/onlineguidesandsupport/clinicalkey/

Kortext

 https://read.kortext.com/

There are around 100 titles on this site on a range of topics including many from the popular "...at a glance" series. Once logged in with OpenAthens type University Hospitals of North Midlands in the institution box and then on the page that comes up click on "collections" next to books and the titles will gradually all appear in an alphabetical list. Click on the images to access the books.

Library Search

You can also find some of our e-books alongside print copies in our library catalogue some are for Keele users only but others are available to NHS staff such as  the Oxford Handbooks online collection. Access the catalogue here: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/librarysearch/

To help you use and access all our e-books as mentioned above there are further helpful guides on our website here: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/ebooks/

Staffed hours week beginning 8th February

Library staffed opening hours for the week beginning 8th Feb are shown below (if you are receiving this in an email you may need to click on the post title to view in full).  Please note that the library remains open 24/7 to members who have requested full access otherwise the building can be accessed during PGMC opening hours Mon-Fri.