Stenhouse Library offers specialist information skills training for all staff and students on placement at Kingston Hospital. Training is free and open for all. To book a place or to arrange a tailored training sessions please email khft.library@nhs.net or fill in our booking form.
Overview of books, journals and OpenAthens
This session will give you an overview of where to find and access the library’s books and journals and how to register and manage your NHS OpenAthens account
Where: Teams & Library Training Room
Duration 30mins
Summary
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Finding the evidence – searching for literature
This session looks at using databases to search for journal articles to inform practice, research and study.
Where: Library Training Room
Duration: 1 hour
Session outline:
Training Objectives:
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Reading Research – an introduction
This training session looks at how to read research using critical appraisal techniques.
Where: Library Training Room
Duration: 1 hour
Summary : The session consists of a general introduction and will cover:
Advanced booking is required as you will be required to read the paper which will be appraised during the session in advance.
After completing this training session you might be interested in attending our two advanced sections, one focusing on quantitative research and the other on qualitative research (information can be found below).
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
EndNote Basic
EndNote Basic is a free web version of EndNote and is an online referencing software that can be used for collection and organising references.
Where: Teams & Library Training Room
Duration 45mins
Summary
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Keeping up to date
Keeping up to date with recent health and scientific publications is vital for staff and researchers. This training course covers a range of services that will help you keep up to date.
Where: Teams & Library Training Room
Duration 45mins
Summary:
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
Want to find out more about how to search the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub effectively? Need some help finding reliable information? Get in touch and let one of the expert librarians help you.
The sessions will show you how to:
To book a session please email khft.library@nhs.net with a list of dates and time that you are available.
An Introduction to the Knowledge and Library Hub can also be found on Moodleunder the other training programmes and then library training. Users must register with an account on Moodle by signing up with your nhs.net email address.
Staff Inductions
The library team hold introductions to the library for various departments as part of the staff inductions process. Please contact the library to arrange. We are happy to hold these online or face to face and can be for any duration ranging from 10- 30 minutes.
Summary:
Book the session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net and let us know the dates you would like us to present at your induction.
1 to 1 Literature Search Training
In addition to group training sessions on Finding the Evidence the Librarians are able to provide one-to-one training on literature searching. This provides the opportunity to look at specific training requirements and questions and can be adapted to what the information need is.
Summary
To book a session please email khft.library@nhs.net with a list of dates and time that you are available.
Reading Research – Quantitative & Qualitative
The Library runs training sessions looking at how to read research using critical appraisal techniques. These two advanced sections of reading research follow the introduction to reading research of which the details can be found above
The quantitative section will include:
The qualitative section will include:
The session includes a practical section in which participants will be able to practice appraising a paper.
Advanced booking is required as you will be required to read the paper which will be appraised during the session in advance.
To book training at a date that is suitable for you, please contact: khft.library@nhs.net
