Knowvember: Strengthen service development and innovations

Many of the searches we undertake are for health care staff in local health and social care organisations who are creating guidelines and policies or developing new initiatives. Below are just some examples from last year:       You can request an evidence search using our online request form, or contact us for more information.

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Knowvember: Informing patient care

Our libarians are experts in searching and will find you the best evidence to inform treatment for your patients.  Below are case-studies of just some of the evidence searches we completed last year and the impact they had on patient care. You can request an evidence search using our online request form, or contact us for more information.

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Knowvember: utilising knowledge to enrich health care

Knowledge mobilisation techniques help people learn before, during and after everything they do so that good practice can be replicated and pitfalls are avoided. After Action Reviews are one well-known method used in many healthcare organisations. However, there are more ways to share best practice and the ‘know-how’ of staff for organisational learning. Helpful postcards from Knowledge for Healthcare highlight …

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Knowledge is power this Knowvember

Knowledge management has been identified as a priority development area for health libraries by the HEE Knowledge for Healthcare development framework. Every member of the team at Brighton & Sussex Library & Knowledge Service uses their expertise and experience to ensure health staff, trainees and students have the knowledge, skills, tools and resources they need to do their job. Throughout …

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Speed up your access to evidence!

The Library and Knowledge Service offers a variety of services to help implement evidence in practice. We find evidence to answer your specific clinical or managerial questions. We run teaching to refresh your skills in finding, evaluating and managing healthcare research. We send you short updates on the latest publications in your field. Now all of these services can be …

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Know your stuff for Knowvember!

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)           Journal of Interprofessional Education and …

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Top Tips: an introduction to searching with HDAS

This is a first in a series of posts looking at one of the most widely and frequently used search tools in the NHS in England: Healthcare Databases Advanced Search, or HDAS as it is commonly called. HDAS is a single search interface for a collection of nine core databases provided in partnership by HEE and NICE. The databases cover …

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