New Electronic Books – Project Management and Healthcare

Library users can use their Athens password to access the following new electronic books:

International Handbook of Public Procurement K V Thai

Develop Your Leadership Skills. The Sunday Times Creating Success Series J Adair

The Handbook For Advanced Primary Care Nurses R Neno

Real World Project Management: Beyond Conventional Wisdom, Best Practices and Project Methodologies R Perrin

Bids, Tenders and Proposals: Winning Business Through Best Practice H Lewis

Asthma Care in the Community J Waldron

Healthcare in the UK: Understanding Continuity and Change I Greener

Value-Driven Project Management H Kerzner

What Executives Need to Know About Project Management H Kerzner

If you work for NHS Western Cheshire or Community Care Western Cheshire and do not have an Athens password, you can register for one by following this link.

How To Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership

Written by J E Adair, 2005.

This new electronic book is available through NHS Evidence to library users. You will need an Athens username and password to access the electronic books.

John Adair has transformed the understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Now he returns with a new title that explores in an authoritative way exactly what we know about leadership and leadership development. There is a revolution underway. We are moving – rapidly in some areas, slower in others – from management to business leadership. As the market for good leaders who can acheive results increases so-called leadership development programmes have proliferated. Many of these are old management development programmes renamed, and others are full of confusing theories and unproductive approaches. This ground-breaking new book aims to set the record straight. It looks at the body of knowledge on leadership, identifies the seven key principles of leadership development, and answers key questions on how to select, train and educate leaders at the level of team, operational and strategic leadership.  NHS Evidence

Follow this link to access this electronic book

New Reflective Practice and Mentoring Electronic Books Available in the Library

Library users now have access to the following electronic books, which focus mainly on the areas of Reflective Practice and Mentorship:

A Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning: Theory and Practice

Developing Reflective Practice: Learning about Teaching and Learning through Modelling

Teaching Made East: A Manual for Health Professionals

Refelctive Practice: A Guide for Nurses and Midwives

Supervision in the Helping Professions

Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities

Experties in Nursing Practice: Caring, Clinical Judgement and Ethics

The Relationship-Driven Supply Chain: Creating a Culture of Collaboartion throughout the Chain

Electronic books can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection.

You can access the books, along with others on topics such as Infection Control, Primary Care, Statistics and Research, using your NHS Athens password using NHS Evidence.

For information on how to navigate the electronic books collection, a guide is available on the NHS Western Cheshire Extranet.

For further information on electronic books, or related library resources, please contact the library.

New Electronic Books

NHS Evidence

NHS Evidence is an important new service which has been created as a result of Lord Darzi’s report High Quality Care for All, which called for quality to be at the heart of the NHS. NHS Evidence provides easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone involved in health and social care. Simple searching can be undertaken without the need for a password and the uncluttered search screen will be familiar in many ways to users of search engines such as Google. Primary research and electronic journals and books can still be accessed using an NHS Athens username and password.

How can I find out more?

The library is running a week of information sessions to give you the opportunity to see how NHS Evidence works. These sessions will run from 15th to 19th June between 12pm-2pm. There is no need to book, just pop in and take this opportunity to familiarise yourself with this important new resource. For more information contact the library team.

Tel: 01244650343         Email: library@wcheshirepct.nhs.uk

Athens Registration Through NLH

NHS Western Cheshire staff are eligible to register for Athens which will allow them to access our collection of electronic books and journals, plus resources including Martindale and the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures.

You can register for an Athens username and password at the National Library for Health website (www.library.nhs.uk). The registration process has now been made simpler, and when your account has been activated it will be possible to log in with your e-mail address rather than your username.

See this step by step guide to setting up your own Athens account.

A guide to Athens Registration