Things in the library 25th October

Things published:

Annual report from the Chief Medical Officer:

"Prevention pays - our children deserve better" read the full report here 

Things that are useful:

Clinical Evidence systematically finds, assesses and summarizes the most relevant evidence for a wide range of common clinical questions and has a separate child health section. Review findings are displayed in a quick and easy to use format.  Sign in with your NHS Open Athens account 

Things other people have been reading:

The 5 most read articles in Paediatrics and Child Health over the last 3 months - available full text via your NHS Open Athens account

1. Otitis media with effusion in children: current management  January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 9-12) Peter J. Robb, Ian Williamson

2. Preseptal and orbital cellulitis in children: a review  January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 1-8) Patrick Watts

3. Obesity genes: implication in childhood obesity January 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 31-36) Yvonne Böttcher, Antje Körner, Peter Kovacs, Wieland Kiess

4. Diagnosing autism January 2013 (Vol. 23 | No. 1 | Pages 5-10) Kirsty Yates, Ann Le Couteur

5. The management of hearing loss in children June 2012 (Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 13-18) Marianne D. Elloy, Andrew H. Marshall

Things to participate in (or involve those you know):
The Department of Education and Department of Health are consulting young people on a new code of practice and on replacing special educational needs (SEN) statements with 0 to 25 education, health and care plans. They are now seeking the views of young people with special educational needs and have issued two draft codes of practice. The consultation period closes on the 20 December 2013.
Code of practice consultation document under 16s
Code of practice consultation document 16-25

Things not to forget:

End of British Summer Time on Sunday so turn your clocks back one hour.

Remembrance poppies for sale in the library from Monday next week

Things you might want to do - (bit early for Christmas sorry)

Buy Pete McKee Christmas Cards  (or  pre-order a stocking sized Theo) to support the Children's Hospital Charity shop online here

Christmas Jumper Day Friday 13th Dec wear or knit a jumper to support Save the Children- find out more here You don't have to knit a large jumper  - Gill knitted Christmas egg cosies for her family last year

Things to eat:

Just to prove we do eat more than just cakes Gill can recommend this seasonal recipe "Spiced root soup with crisp spiced onions"

Things in the library 18th Oct

Things we did:
Library Away Day
Sorry if you came to see us on Tuesday 15th ...we weren't here... we were having our Away Day to consider 'where next' for the library service. A useful ice breaker exercise we did was to summarise what our purpose is in the form of a tweet i.e limited to 140 characters. That certainly got the brain cells working. We didn't go very far just across the road to the Arts Tower but it was good to get away out of our usual environment. 


Journal Club this week
The presenter this week was Pawan Kumar Sharma and he  presented the paper "Urine proteomics for discovery of improved diagnostic markers of Kawasaki disease".     Read the article here  and find out more about Journal Club here

Next Journal Club meeting 7th Nov - Thurs 8-9 am where the article to be discussed will be "Electrocardiogram Screening for Disorders That Cause Sudden Cardiac Death in Asymptomatic Children: A Meta-analysis" Pediatrics. 2012 April; 129(4): e999–e1010  Read it here

Things we spotted:
Insight into the social interactions of babies helps reveal how infections spread PLOS ONE article
GMC The state of medical education and practice in the UK report: 2013 Read it here

Things you might want to do:

Helping you to support young carers - School Nurses’ and Community Children’s Nurses’ Master Class - Birmingham

In conjunction with the Department of Health, the RCN are running four master classes to provide school nurses and community children’s nurses with an update on the national policy and to discuss what it means to you.   Details

Things we baked:
No not for Gill's birthday (which was this week) but for Journal Club  Spinach and parmesan muffins 
Recipe can be found 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

Clinical Microsystems…what are they and what will they do?

We have a guest speaker in our monthly InfoBites  session  tomorrow 5^th March at 13:00 in Illingworth Library. Tracy Jackson from Sheffield Children's Hospital will be introducing Clinical Microsystems in a 20 minute session where you can also enjoy food nibbles and buy or bring a drink with you.

Well personally I have no idea what Microsystems are…..although I assume they are small rather than large… so I asked Tracy to fill me in with some background information.

Apparently this is a collaborative venture between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and SCH and is a service improvement initiative which is entirely patient focused so the emphasis is on quality not cost saving. 

Thirty people from the two hospital trusts received training last autumn to be ‘coaches’ and they are currently working with multidisciplinary teams.

With the help of these coaches(see picture) – more of whom are being trained as I write - skills can be built in established teams within the hospital to help them implement solutions of their own, in order to successfully deliver change and improve service delivery.

This is a 3 year scheme which we were successful in receiving a grant from Health Foundation to implement and the scheme is supported by the Executive Team and senior managers across the trust.

I think it all sounds really interesting and I'm hoping that the phone doesn't ring too much during the session so I can sit and listen myself…there may well be ideas we can pinch for the library…

Do come along to hear Tracy and if you want any more information on Clinical Microsystems please check out this website or contact Tracy direct by email: Tracy.jackson@sch.nhs.uk

...hope the cakes aren't too micro....

Just one day..snapshot of what we do..

Designed by Sarah McIntyre, www.jabberworks.co.uk

It’s a good start to the day as the lift goes direct to F Floor Stephenson without stopping; I do walk up the stairs in summer when the bus gets me here earlier but no time to do that today.

Kate is already in and sending out email reminders the day before books are due back, there will then be a flurry of emails to reply to granting renewals if the books haven’t been reserved by another reader.

Sarah is out at the PCCU ward round meeting as part of our clinical support work – we also attend Surgery & Neurosurgery meetings on a regular basis, she will probably come back with at least one literature search for evidence to work on during the next couple of days.

The library email accounts are checked and a collective sigh of relief goes up as (so far) there isn't a request for 17 articles by one of our regular clinicians...we are convinced he saves them all up for Friday afternoons!

A couple of support workers come into the library to ask for help logging on the the e-learning platform and after negotiating the choosing a password minefield they settle down to complete some training.

We have medical students in today too – they like working in our library as it is smaller and cosier than many of the university ones and this group seem particularly keen on our dark chocolate KitKats and cappuccino coffee.

We advertise that we can answer ‘all questions even the silly ones’ although we are momentarily flummoxed by a phone call asking if we have OED...what strange medical condition is this we wonder ....till it transpires that it is the precise definition of a word that is required and as we do have access to Oxford English Dictionary on-line we are able to help.

Someone comes to the counter asking for a particular book except that all he can remember about it is that it is on a particular topic and has a blue cover. Book is finally located (with a green cover) and reader goes away happy.

A doctor comes in for a pre-booked individual training session on how to use the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) this lasts for about an hour and we get through it without the system crashing which does make life easier.

Sarah is due to visit Becton in the near future to explain or services to a group of staff and how they can access electronic resources, so some time is spent working out the best mode of transport.

A group of lost staff come into the library looking for the Webster seminar room....this happens so frequently that we have written  instructions ready to give them.

Lunchtime comes at last and along with it a discussion of what cakes Sarah & Kate are going to make for the next InfoBites session (see previous blogs), Sarah also bakes regularly for the Journal Club(see previous blogs)...it’s not that we are obsessed by cake or anything..honest!

The emails are checked again and some requests from other health libraries in the UK are supplied – we have a good fast reciprocal service and can supply most article requests in a couple of days.

I spend an hour ordering new books and replacements for old editions..we shall soon be able to advertise another sale of withdrawn items.

I then walk across Weston Park to collect  some books previously ordered on our behalf by the University of Sheffield, the duck pond is frozen today and the ducks look most disgruntled. Fortunately there are only 3 small books to pick up, some of our books are very heavy.

Catch up on TweetDeck when I get back and retweet information that I think will be of interest to our followers – it will automatically appear on our Facebook and Linkedin pages too. I then add recent publications by SCH staff to our Delicious bookmarking page. I've only recently set up an alert to catch these and hopefully having them all in one place will help raise the profile of the Trust and make it easier for people to see what others are working on.

It’s one of my late nights tonight (Mon-Thurs we open till 7 pm) so I settle down to catch up with some paperwork but make the mistake of checking the library emails again and see that instead I will be searching for and supplying 17 articles

 Gill

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Library Opening Hours for Christmas & New Year 2012-2013

The staff of Illingworth Library would like to wish all Trust staff and Patients a

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Illingworth Library Christmas Opening Hours
Mon 17th   Dec 12	08:45 – 19:00
Tues 18th  Dec 12	Closed for Stocktaking
Weds 19th Dec 12	08:45 – 19:00
Thurs 20th Dec 12	08:45 – 19:00
Fri 21st      Dec 12	08:45 – 17:00
Mon 24th Dec – Mon 31st Dec 12	Closed
Re-Opening Weds 2nd Jan 2013	Wed & Thurs	8:45am - 7:00pm
	Fri	8:45am - 5:00pm

Library services are available during the Christmas Period at the Health Sciences Library, Medical School, Royal Hallamshire Hospital
RHH opening Hours	Opening Hours	Staffed Hours
Fri 21st Dec 12	09:00 - 17:00	10:00 - 17:00
Sat 22nd Dec - Sun 23rd Dec 12	14:00 - 18:00	Self-service only
Mon 24th Dec 12	09:00 - 13:00	Self-service only
Tues 25th Dec  - Wed 26th Dec 12	Closed	Closed
Thurs 27th Dec - Fri 28th Dec 12	09:00 - 17:00	Self-service only
Sat 29th Dec 2012 - Tues 1st Jan 13	Closed	Closed

2013 Introduction to Critical Appraisal Course Dates

2013 Introduction to Critical Appraisal Course Dates

Thursday 24th January 9.30am -1pm
Monday 18th March 1.00pm - 4.30pm
Thursday 23rd May 9.30am -1pm 
Friday 12th July  9.30am -1pm 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the session you should:

• Understand the principles of critical appraisal and why you should do it
• Be able to appraise published research and judge its reliability
• Be able to assess the relevance of published research to your own work

Please see our website for more details http://www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/Introduction-to-Critical-Appraisal.htm 
To book a place on any course, please email coursebookings@sch.nhs.uk and copy to s.j.massey@shef.ac.uk