Revised Literature Search Request Form

The Library & Knowledge Service has updated the Literature Search request form.

There are two additions to it:

• We now ask that you provide alternative terms to each of your keywords
• You can now request an alert from the search - meaning that you can keep up to date with any new research/guidance that is published

You can download the form here or complete it online via your Intranet. Click on your PCT name below to access the online form (from a NHS computer only):

• NHS Halton and St Helens
• NHS Knowsley
• NHS Warrington (download Word version only)

The Library & Knowledge Service provide a comprehensive literature searching service, performing advanced searches in a variety of databases and other appropriate sources. This service supports a variety of purposes including:

• Commissioning of services
• Clinical support
• Guidelines/policies/care pathway development
• Research / audit
  
• Servivce development/redesign

For more information please email library.pct.nhs.uk

New Electronic Journal

As part of the Internurse Collection of Journals, all staff now have electronic access to a new journal.

Journal of Renal Nursing (JRN) is a new bi-monthly multi-disciplinary clinical journal, launched in May 2009, for nurses and other allied healthcare professionals specializing in renal care.

The journal is focused on promoting excellence in clinical practice and will provide up-to-date accessible, practical and visually stimulating information, written by experts and peer-reviewed by leading authorities in the field, to help inform, challenge and support anyone working within or alongside renal units and to facilitate evidence-based practice."

Other titles in the Internurse Collection are:

British Journal of Cardiac Nursing - content is available from 2006 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

British Journal of Community Nursing - content is available from 1996 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

British Journal of Healthcare Assistants - - content is available from 2007 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - content is available from 2005 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

British Journal of Nursing - content is available from 1995 Vol. 4 Issue 1 to current

British Journal of School Nursing - content is available from 2006 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

Gastrointestinal Nursing - content is available from 2006 Vol. 4 Issue 3 to current

International Journal of Palliative Nursing - content is available from 1996 Vol. 2 Issue 1 to current

Journal of Children's and Young People's Nursing - content is available from 2007 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to 2008 Vol. 2 Issue 3

Journal of Wound Care - content is available from 1999 Vol. 8 Issue 1 to current

Nurse Prescribing - content is available from 2003 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

Nursing & Residential Care - content is available from 1999 Vol. 1 Issue 1 to current

Practice Nursing - content is available from 1996 Vol. 7 Issue 1 to current

Access to these journals is through your NHS Athens username and password. To acccess any article from the above journals, click on "Athens Sign In" at the top left corner then on "Browse Journals". When you've chosen your journal and found an article that you want, you can either click on the title of the article or click on "View Article" to access the full text.

If you don't have an NHS Athens account, you can register for one by clicking here.

If you need any help on accessing these or any other electronic resource please contact the library at library.pct@sthk.nhs.uk.