As it’s #knowvember, here’s just a selection of our resources to support knowledge management and how to use it in healthcare. Explore our full range via our website: https://www.bsuh.nhs.uk/library/
NHS OpenAthens password required; register here: http://openathens.nice.org.uk/
Books
Journals
International Journal of Nursing Knowledge (Kent, Surrey, Sussex NHS OpenAthens password required)
Clinical Teacher (Kent, Surrey, Sussex NHS OpenAthens password required)
Postgraduate Medical Journal (NHS OpenAthens password required)
Medical Education (Kent, Surrey, Sussex NHS OpenAthens password required)
Evidence-Based Medicine (NHS OpenAthens password required)
Evidence-Based Mental Health (NHS OpenAthens password required)
Evidence-Based Nursing (NHS OpenAthens password required)
Academic Medicine (NHS OpenAthens password required)
Evidence searches carried out on Knowledge Management and its application
Methods of teaching/supporting healthcare staff who speak English as a second language
What makes a good Education Centre that is fit for purpose and suitable for use by all professions and staff groups
The use of podcasts in medical education
Clinical skills training in community care assistant staff – assessing impact
Development of novice faculty in simulation-based education in healthcare
Enhancing education and providing safe care in the surgical foundation programme
Advantages to hospitals of having clinical academics in ICU
Web and other resources
Point of care decision-support. BMJ Best Practice takes you quickly and accurately to the latest evidence-based information, whenever and wherever you need it.
Their step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention is updated daily using robust evidence based methodology and expert opinion.
They support you in implementing good practice.
Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provides a readable, digestible, clinically-focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane Reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practising healthcare professionals.
UpToDate (for BSUH Staff only)
Summaries & Synopses. UpToDate is available via the BSUH Trust Intranet & UpToDate Anywhere is free on 2 devices for registered users (BSUH only). Register first via BSUH Intranet. BSUH Intranet.
Evidence and Knowledge Self-Assessment Tool
A simple framework has been developed to help health organisations to assess opportunities to make better use of knowledge as an asset. Often referred to as “The Board Tool” this framework enables a dialogue between a representative of a library and knowledge service and senior executives in a health organisation to see how they are currently using external evidence and organisational knowledge and to devise an action plan to help the organisation develop best practice with targeted support.
NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework Postcards
These postcards act as a quick reference guide to using eleven knowledge mobilisation techniques to help people learn before, during and after everything they do so that good practice can be replicated and pitfalls are avoided.
Gurteen Knowledge-Log (David Gurteen)
Items of interest to the areas of knowledge management and organisational learning
NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework E-learning
Eleven modules introducing techniques designed to help individuals to develop and use skills to mobilise knowledge effectively in their organisations – to help them to learn before, during and after everything that they do so that pitfalls can be avoided and best practice replicated. Log-in to the e-Learning for Healthcare platform to access.
