Things in the library 18 Dec

Things to come to
Coffee morning Monday 21 December in the library...10:30 - 12:00 ...cakes...drop in session to get help with anything information or library related...cake...and turn your paper copy of the BNF 2015-16 into a paper Christmas tree or angel..if you haven't already thrown it away. It has so many inaccuracies that you should be using the online version.

Things going soon...e-books last chance
Some specialities are using our e-books well and giving us positive feedback. From others we have only tumbleweed....so before the end of the trial (31st Dec) please try the system out and tell us what you think. You will need to sign in with your NHS Open Athens account.

Things to follow us around
If you have a Google account and use Google + then we have moved our profile which can now be found here...do leave us a comment or follow us if you use Google+. This is another way you can find out what we are doing..we are also on Twitter Facebook Delicious Linkedin...we don't expect to use all of these as often the information will we duplicated between them so just use what suits you best...or you can even call in to see us!


Things about non-specialist children's care
This guidance, produced by the Children’s Surgical Forum (CSF) – which is comprised of surgeons, anaesthetists, other medical specialists and lay representatives – combines a large number of standards and guidelines provided by key stakeholders involved in surgical care of children and young people (CAYP) and is intended to improve emergency surgical care for children and young people in all parts of the UK.
Topics covered include: pre-hospital care, networks, locally delivered care, collaboration between paediatric and surgical services, transfers, education and training, and patients and their families.
The publication will be of most interest to clinicians and service managers in hospitals that admit children and young people (both specialist and non specialist), and network leads and commissioners with particular responsibility for the care of CAYP.

Things about opening hours
If you stand outside the library on Tuesday & Wednesday 22nd & 23rd December you are likely to see clouds of dust from under the door, hear creaking trolleys (and library staff) and the occasional avalanche of books...yes we are closed for the annual stocktaking ritual - also known as pre-Christmas library workout. Entertaining as this spectacle might be sadly we are closed to visitors on those days.
Our  hours from Monday are below.
 Mon 21 Dec                     08:45 - 17:00
Tue 22 & Wed 23 Dec     Closed for  Stocktaking
Thurs 24 Dec- Fri 1 Jan  Closed
Mon 4 Jan                        08:45 - 19:00

Some library services are available during the Christmas period at Royal Hallamshire Hospital

RHH                    Opening Hours                 Staffed Service Hours
24 Dec               09:00 - 17:00                 10:00 - 17:00
25 Dec – 28 Dec                      CLOSED
29 Dec – 31 Dec    09:00 - 17:00                   Self-service only
1 - 3 Jan                                      CLOSED

We wish all our library users a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Things not forgotten..food 

One of the favourite Christmas meals in our house is always Bubble & Squeak...I have never actually used a recipe but if you want guidance here is one...but basically chuck in all your left over veg and spuds...mine never looks as tidy as this one!

Things in the library 9 October

Things to go with muffins - Journal Club
Next week the Journal Club will be on Thursday 15 October from  8:00 to 9:00 held on  F Floor Stephenson Wing. All clinicians welcome and the paper being discussed is "Using multifaceted education to improve management in acute viral bronchiolitis" Murch H, Oakley J,Pierrepoint M, et al. Arch Dis Child 2015. Please contact the library if you need help accessing a copy of the full text.

Things about health visitors and school nurses 
"Health visiting and school nursing partnership nurse interface and improved partnership working" has been published. This pathway is guidance to support professionals to deliver improved outcomes, and outlines aspirations for service delivery. The guidance will assist in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and will help local areas to shape their services.

Things about training doctors

The BMA defines 'core principles' of training for doctors. The six key principles set out in the document were formulated following consultation with BMA members, as well as being informed by existing policy, and include that education, training and development is:

• Responsive to the population’s health requirements
• Rooted in an ethos of professional excellence
• An inspiring process of continuous life-long learning
• Fair and inclusive
• Supportive and flexible for learners and trainees
• Designed to enable employers and infrastructure to provide value and support.

Things about children's mental wellbeing
A new resource from Public Health England’s (PHE) Mental Health Intelligence Network highlights the importance of local organisations measuring and acting to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people. Measuring mental wellbeing in children and young people shows that raising levels of mental wellbeing influences a child’s ability to learn, their resilience to risky behaviours and their physical and mental health in adulthood. Half of all mental health problems emerge before the age of 14 and 1 in 10 children will have a clinically diagnosed mental health problem during their childhood.

(C)Gill Kaye 2015

Things exciting 
The landing outside the library is being painted as part of the signage project in the hospital so we expect our entrance will look very smart soon.

Things Philosophical
Philosophy at the Showroom is a series of sessions probing the philosophical questions raised by some of cinema's most intriguing films, and discussing books that have philosophical themes (either philosophical texts, or other works that raise philosophical questions). The talks will not presuppose any prior knowledge of philosophy, and we hope they will lead to the development of a thriving community of those interested in the subject in the city. Following the showing of the film, there will then be a short talk from a philosopher, and then general discussion. October Session : Babette's Feast introduced by Hugh Pyper Thursday 29 October 6pm. Tickets are available directly from the Showroom.You will need to pay the usual Showroom ticket charge for seeing the film.





Things musical 
The new season of University musical events have been announced and includes: Global Soundtracks, New York, Beethoven Plus and a live performance of The Snowman and Peter & the Wolf on Dec 19th.


Things about social media

I recently did a session with one of the departments in the hospital talking about the uses of social media. If you would like us to bring a training session to your department on anything information related then please ask. Here is a fun quiz to find out your social media age.
Thinking about age brings me nicely on to..



Things cakey 

(C) Gill Kaye 2015

As I write my son is at home making a birthday cake for his girlfriend...I kept getting baking related texts earlier in the week! Wonder if he will bake one for my birthday next week.....although I don't think we would have enough candles for mine! He has chosen to make this carrot cake here is the recipe but he has decorated his and it looks wonderful!

Things in the library 22 November

Things to do
The Cochrane Library - An introduction for Researchers

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Starting time:13:00, GMT Time (London, GMT)

A 1 hour online training session - you need to book here (may already be fully subscribed)

Things to read and do
Analysing your staff survey results -there is an increasing amount of interest in the links between staff and patient experience. Matthew Watt from Health Education Yorkshire & the Humber has developed a tool for NHS Employers, which allows organisations to see links between the data in the staff survey and patient data. More information here

Things you might want to try

Google Scholar have launched Scholar Library you can save articles from the search page, organize them by topic, and use the power of Scholar's full-text search & ranking to quickly find just the one you want - of course you never can be certain with Google if features will stay for ever or be discontinued. If you are interested in other reference management software come and ask us. I hope to do an InfoBite on the subject next year. More about Scholar Library here

Things about Social Media

NHS Employers have published a document called "Increasing staff engagement with social media" you can read it here.This briefing looks at how you can use social media in your organisation to improve staff engagement. It is aimed at the HR community but will also be of interest to communications teams and line managers.
It discusses how social media platforms can be used to engage staff and provides examples of engaging staff using social media. It looks at what you can do now to improve staff engagement and things you need to consider.



Things to attend
You might also be interested in our next InfoBites which is entitled 'Why social media' a quick 20 min introduction to the topic, on 3rd December at 13:00 in the library.

Things moving fast
Kate and Sarah are both runners so were interested in this report showing declining fitness in children - it's claimed that on average, children today run a mile 90 seconds slower than did their counterparts 30 years ago. Read more here

Things to buy

If you have someone in your life who loves a 'real' book you might like to look at these - please will someone point my husband in the direction of this blog! Click here for more details


Things we did and ate

Journal Club had a good discussion this week around a paper on Cerebral Palsy - the next meeting will be next week 28 Nov 8:00 to 9:00 watch out for an email with further details.
This week attendees were able to sample these excellent carrot, spinach and cumin muffins recipe here

Delicious

You know us we do have a thing about cakes. We serve them at Journal Club and at our InfoBites session but in this case the deliciousness doesn't relate to Sarah's baking.

You may have seen on websites this symbol of squares this is the sign that you can add an item to Delicious. 

So what is Delicious? 

Delicious is one of many ways of bookmarking or collecting together items on the internet that are of interest to you - it is a free service. You can add tags or subjects to items you have saved; you can then gather them together and organise them. You can also decide if these are to be private or shared. There are options for linking your Delicious account with Twitter and Faceback if you wish. You can also search Delicious for items of interest in your speciality and can add items to your own account if you wish to set one up. 
If you want to use an account like this for yourselves look around at different alternatives (Stumble Upon, Reddit, Digg, Evernote and many others) and see which suit you we can give you help with some of these if you ask us.

So what do we use our Delicious account for? 

We try to keep track of recent publications by Sheffield Children's Hospital staff and this is where we gather them together. So if you want to see what your colleagues are publishing you should be able to find them on our Delicious site. Alternatively if you want the information pushed to you you can follow our page with Twitter or Facebook and we have also set up an e-prompt email alert which you can sign up for here email sign-up , this will send you an email each time we add extra articles to the site.

Do have a look and if we have missed something you have published recently send us the details