Journal Club Tuesday 29th May 17.30-18.30pm Stephenson Wing

It is journal club this Tuesday and for your delight and delectation we have a paper presented by Vanessa Algar: 

"Validation of a laboratory risk index score for the identification of severe bacterial infection in children with fever without a source" from ADC 2010 95: (968-973)

REMEMBER

If you do not get a chance to read the paper do not worry just come along.  The discussion that follows the presentation is the opportunity to make a change in practice and challenge current thinking.  The last 4 JC discussions have been illuminating, informative and have led to a recommendation to audit current practice.

The usual firm has been employed for catering and we can look forward to cheese, olive and onion scones and as yet undecided sweet muffins!

Hope to see you there

Sarah

Journal Club next meeting

When I said I would do a journal club once a month at 8am I did not realize a month goes past so quick!  

Thursday morning  17^th May will see the 3^rd of our early morning  club presentations and will feature a cohort study entitled “Unexpected collapse in apparently healthy newborns – a prospective study of a missing cohort of neonatal and near-death events.”  It will be presented by Steph Borg who is currently at the Jessops so the topic is one of great relevance to her practice.

Remember if you have not had time to read the paper, it does not matter as Steph’s presentation will give you the information you need to join in the discussion.

So, Join us on F floor of the Stephenson Wing for homemade baking, an early morning cuppa and hopefully a sparkling discussion which will change the world albeit our tiny part of it!

Nice books at last!

When you tell people that you work in the Library at the Children’s Hospital  they often assume it is a patients’  library and say things like  ‘that must be lovely...all  those nice picture books’.  

Well it is lovely working here but most of our books certainly don’t have nice pictures in them!

Recently we have expanded our small (donated) fiction collection to include a wide variety of books including poetry, biography, chick lit, suspense, thriller and classic fiction.

Our new Leisure Reading Collection is available for all SCH staff and registered library users to borrow or read in the library – we also have a selection of very short Quick Reads.

We believe it is important to provide this additional service to staff who may not get the chance to get to a public library or perhaps feel the need to chill out from work with a good book. Many of the titles have been selected from the Reading Agency’s MoodBoosting Books list.

Check out the titles available by coming up to browse the shelves (F Floor Stephenson Wing) or by searching our library catalogue  for the keyword ‘Leisure’.