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 session please email khft.library@nhs.net or fill in our booking form.
Library Induction
Meet the friendly library team and have a tour of Stenhouse Library. You will find out how to register with us, how to search and locate the books you want and then borrow them. You will also discover all the resources the library has on offer and find out the best ways to access them, either online or in print.
Where: Library
Drop in – no need to book
When: Every Thursday any time between 13.00 – 14.00
How to write effective papers using academic literature
This session is aimed at managers who are writing reports and papers to present to the Board.
In this session you will learn why using research, when writing a report is important. You will discover how to formulate an appropriate research question, identify and understand the different types of evidence and use an appropriate database to find quality information. There will also be a practical element to the session where the group will appraise a paper together. Finally, you will be shown how to include citations and add a bibliography to your report using Harvard Referencing.
Where: Library Training Room
Duration: 90 minutes
When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
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 different resources to search for evidence to inform practice, research and study.
Where: Library Training Room
Duration: 1 hour
When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Critically Appraising Research – an introduction
This training session looks at how to read research using critical appraisal techniques.
Where: Library Training Room
Duration: 1 hour
When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Managing References
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: 45 minutes
When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
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
When: Various dates, see our booking form for more details.
Book your session by emailing khft.library@nhs.net or by filling in our booking form.
Other sessions available to book at a time and place of your convenience:
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 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.
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.
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 critically appraising research of which the details can be found above
To book training at a date that is suitable for you, please contact: khft.library@nhs.net
