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National library for health emergency care specialist library
Accident and Emergency Nursing (2007) 15, 71
Accident and Emergency Nursing www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/aaen
GUEST EDITORIAL
National library for health emergency care specialist library Keeping up to date in emergency nursing is particularly difficult. The specialty spans so many areas of medicine and nursing. It is so easy to miss that vital area and none of us has the time to keep looking at all the possible journals. A very simple search on Medline shows over 7000 articles related to emergency medicine in 2006. Hopefully, the National Library of Health’s Emergency Care Specialist Library can assist all clinicians in finding relevant information and keeping up to date. In time the library will have direct links to electronic patient records and be integrated in to the NHS IT system. To assist in your clinical work, the library now has a full library of clinical guidelines that have all been quality controlled and selected for their relevance to emergency care. These are supported by a library of clinical evidence. All Cochrane reviews relevant to emergency medicine and all Best BETs are indexed and are searchable either via a comprehensive topic tree or a simple search box. Over the next year this evidence will be supplemented by systematic reviews in emergency medicine that have all been peer reviewed and contain a commentary on both content and quality. The prescribing section also gives you access to a wide source of prescribing information including both adult and children’s BNF and TOXBASE. Hopefully you should now be able to find clinical guidance for most clinical conditions and the available evidence behind these just by visiting one web site. If you are interested in how we organise emergency care or how we could improve the systems that we work in then the library also contains a series of management briefings. These are short commentaries on a variety of emergency care service
delivery and organisation topics. Each briefing is only 2–3 pages long but also contains a wealth of hyperlinks to more detailed information, official reports, checklists and references - ideal for anyone undertaking an improvement project or for academic assignments. Other sections have a wealth of information relating to major incidents and contingency planning. We are also developing an archive of photographs, ECGs, X-rays and similar both for reference and for when you need to liven up a PowerPoint presentation. This month sees the start of a new project with Accident and Emergency Nursing. Every issue there will be a summary of new content in the library, including guidelines, Cochrane reviews, systematic reviews, national guidance so you can keep fully up to date. The library is primarily for emergency care clinicians so feedback is vital. Please do visit the site and let us have your views. What would you like adding to the site, how can we make it better for you? In the 20th century the challenge was to create new knowledge. The challenge for the 21st century is how we manage the mass of information available to us all. Hopefully the Emergency Care Specialist Library will help you to do this.
0965-2302/$ - see front matter c 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.aaen.2007.01.003
Prof. Matthew Cooke PhD, FCEM, FRCS(Ed) Project Director Rachel Lancaster Information Specialist Suzette Aniyi Information Specialist National library for Health Emergency Care Specialist Library, Warwick Medical School
Accident and Emergency Nursing www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/aaen
GUEST EDITORIAL
National library for health emergency care specialist library Keeping up to date in emergency nursing is particularly difficult. The specialty spans so many areas of medicine and nursing. It is so easy to miss that vital area and none of us has the time to keep looking at all the possible journals. A very simple search on Medline shows over 7000 articles related to emergency medicine in 2006. Hopefully, the National Library of Health’s Emergency Care Specialist Library can assist all clinicians in finding relevant information and keeping up to date. In time the library will have direct links to electronic patient records and be integrated in to the NHS IT system. To assist in your clinical work, the library now has a full library of clinical guidelines that have all been quality controlled and selected for their relevance to emergency care. These are supported by a library of clinical evidence. All Cochrane reviews relevant to emergency medicine and all Best BETs are indexed and are searchable either via a comprehensive topic tree or a simple search box. Over the next year this evidence will be supplemented by systematic reviews in emergency medicine that have all been peer reviewed and contain a commentary on both content and quality. The prescribing section also gives you access to a wide source of prescribing information including both adult and children’s BNF and TOXBASE. Hopefully you should now be able to find clinical guidance for most clinical conditions and the available evidence behind these just by visiting one web site. If you are interested in how we organise emergency care or how we could improve the systems that we work in then the library also contains a series of management briefings. These are short commentaries on a variety of emergency care service
delivery and organisation topics. Each briefing is only 2–3 pages long but also contains a wealth of hyperlinks to more detailed information, official reports, checklists and references - ideal for anyone undertaking an improvement project or for academic assignments. Other sections have a wealth of information relating to major incidents and contingency planning. We are also developing an archive of photographs, ECGs, X-rays and similar both for reference and for when you need to liven up a PowerPoint presentation. This month sees the start of a new project with Accident and Emergency Nursing. Every issue there will be a summary of new content in the library, including guidelines, Cochrane reviews, systematic reviews, national guidance so you can keep fully up to date. The library is primarily for emergency care clinicians so feedback is vital. Please do visit the site and let us have your views. What would you like adding to the site, how can we make it better for you? In the 20th century the challenge was to create new knowledge. The challenge for the 21st century is how we manage the mass of information available to us all. Hopefully the Emergency Care Specialist Library will help you to do this.
0965-2302/$ - see front matter c 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.aaen.2007.01.003
Prof. Matthew Cooke PhD, FCEM, FRCS(Ed) Project Director Rachel Lancaster Information Specialist Suzette Aniyi Information Specialist National library for Health Emergency Care Specialist Library, Warwick Medical School