Training


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

  • How to register for an NHS OpenAthens account or transfer your current account to Kingston
  • Overview of the print and electronic resources provided by the library
  • How to access full-text journal articles and use your OpenAthens account

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:

  • Introduction to databases (including Medline, CINAHL, Embase, Kings Fund, PsycInfo and the Cochrane Library)
  • Forming your search strategy
  • Accessing the databases
  • Searching techniques
  • Retrieving your results
  • Electronic Journal retrieval

Training Objectives:

  • Select the most appropriate database for your needs
  • Formulate a simple search strategy using both subject headings and ‘free text’
  • Conduct a search
  • Understand what a thesaurus is and how to use it to improve your search results
  • Refine your search strategy to get the results you want
  • Display, select, save and print your search results  

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:

  • Why you need to critically appraise research
  • How to start your appraisal
  • General questions to ask when you appraise a paper

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

  • Overview of the function of EndNote Basic (web version)
  • Creating an account
  • Inputting and importing references into EndNote
  • Storing and managing your references
  • Including references in your Word document
  • Advice on how to reference can also be provided, although this will not be part of the session unless specifically requested

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:

  • Intro to KnowledgeShare and how to set up an account
  • RSS as a current awareness tool
  • traditional methods of current awareness such as search alerts and table of contents
  • using new social media to stay current.

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:

  • Log into the Hub using your NHS OpenAthens account
  • Give you an overview of the home page and where you can locate links to other useful resources 
  • How to complete a basic and an advanced search using the Hub
  • How to limit and filter your results
  • Access ‘one click links’ and request form
  • How to save your search and the results

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:

  • Where the library is and how to register
  • What resources the library has to offer including our literature search service and electronic resources.
  • How to register for an NHS OpenAthens account
  • Demo on either the Knowledge and Library Hub, Point of Care Tools, Library Catalogue or what would be most useful for the intended audience.

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

  • The literature search process including how to formulate your question, defining the key concepts and any alternative words and selecting the databases that will be searched. 
  • Using Boolean operators
  • Limiting your results
  • Saving and reviewing your results
  • Rerunning your search in another database
  • Exporting references. 

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:

  • Questions to ask to critically appraise quantitative articles
  • General features of quantitative research
  • Different types of quantitative research
  • Types of statistics commonly used in medical studies

The qualitative section will include:

  • Questions to ask to critically appraise qualitative articles
  • General features of qualitative research
  • Different methods of qualitative research
  • Things to look for in qualitative research

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


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