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Welcome to the Matron’s library resources & services page. This page is based on the 10 key roles of the Matron as listed in the Matron’s handbook.
How to access local policies and guidelines
Please note that policies and guidelines are only accessible from a Trust PC.
The Knowledge and Library Service administer Heritage Online, the system that hosts all local policies and guidelines. You can access the updating a policy guide and finding a trust policy guide.
Matron's 10 Key Roles
- We have a range of books and online resources covering leadership and management topics including, equality and diversity, supporting inclusivity, and strategic thinking.
- Sign up for the Inclusive leadership, professional standards, and accountability email alert.
- We have books and online resources covering quality and safety improvement, and patient safety , quality control, safeguarding adults and children, hygiene standards
- You can choose choose to add Governance, patient safety, and quality to your alert.
- You can benchmark practice in other organisations by ordering a literature search.
- We can advise you how to access Trust policies and procedures on sickness, flexible work, and other issues relating to workforce planning.
- We have two useful guides that take you through how to find a policy and how to update a policy.
- You and add Workforce planning and resource management to your weekly newsletter.
- The library has a wealth of books on well-being that contribute to staff retention.
- We can benchmark good practice by carrying out a literature search for you.
- We have evidence palliative care resources DynaMed Palliative Care and BMJ Best Practice Palliative Care.
- We have a range of material relating to end-of-life care: books and journals such as International Journal of Palliative Care and BMJ Palliative and Supportive Care.
- We can set up you with Patient experience and reducing health inequalities weekly alert.
- You can add Performance and operational oversight to your weekly email alert.
- We have a range of books relating to continuous improvement.
- New members of staff can receive a library induction designed to give them an overview of the evidence-based resources available to them online. We can show you and your colleagues quick and easy ways to access research.
- We have clinical point of care online tools designed to provide up to date evidence-based medicine. DynaMed & BMJ Best Practice . We can deliver training sessions on how to access and use these tools.
- You can add Digital and technology to your weekly email newsletter
- Do your staff need a place to study? The libraries at Chorley and Preston are accessible 24/7 and offer a comfortable place to study with plenty of IT facilities.
- We have staff that offer advice. We can offer a friendly induction and tour of our facilities. When you join the library, you are not just getting access to the books in the libraries at Preston and Chorley, but access to libraries across the Northwest.
- You can add Education, Training, and Development to your weekly email alert.
- We can help you run your journal clubs. We can run sessions on how to source journal articles in the quickest and easiest way.
- We can offer you and your staff training on how to carry out a literature search. There are also several online resources that can help with literature searching. We have statistical software called Stats Direct on all our library’s PCs.
- We have a number of books on research.
- Do you wish to publish a case report? Did you know that the Trust subscribes to BMJ Case Reports that entitles you to submit case reports free of charge.
- The Knowledge and Library Service runs LTHTR’s publication database. Here you can search all research published by staff and students working at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
- You can add Research and Development to your weekly email alert.
- DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice are clinical support tools that can help you find the latest evidence-based Medicine to support clinical effectiveness. This can include topics covering nutritional support.
- You can add Collaborative working and clinical effectiveness to your weekly email alert.
- We can carry out a literature search for you to support clinical effectiveness.
- As part of the Training Need Analysis (TNA) for your staff we run a number training courses . In addition to a general induction to the library we can offer training on literature searching, critical appraisal, clinical point of care tools (DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice), and health literacy.
- We have books both in print and electronic format to support your staff’s individual training needs.
- You can add Service improvement and transformation to your weekly email alert that covers quality improvement (audits, root-cause analysis, waiting times, and process mapping).
