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Introduction to healthcare knowledge and library services / edited by Geoff Walton [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information science.
- Medical informatics.
- Knowledge management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Facet Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- The range of roles in healthcare knowledge and library services are many and varied. From 'traditional' librarian roles to those that break new ground - including clinical, embedded and outreach librarians and knowledge managers - they are a vital ongoing support for this important sector.<br><br>This work brings together health information practitioners and researchers with a variety of experience across health information work within knowledge and library services in the NHS. It provides a comprehensive, practitioner-focused introduction to all aspects of knowledge and library work in the health sector with a focus on NHS England. The book begins with an overview of the NHS and how knowledge and library work sit within it. It then addresses such critical areas as services supporting evidence-based practice, the developing area of health information literacy, reflective practice, collaborative working, demonstrating impact and employing digital technology. The book ends with an exploration of what the future might hold for healthcare knowledge and library services such as, the rapid advance of artificial intelligence/machine learning and how it might shape those services and knowledge specialist roles.<br><br>Knowledge and library specialists offer a valuable gift to healthcare professionals - the 'gift of time' enabling them to make informed decisions which directly impact upon patient care. This timely book provides a valuable reference for anyone studying or looking to enter this relevant and diverse field.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Case Studies
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- How to Use this Book
- 1 An Introduction to Healthcare Knowledge and Library Services
- Introduction
- Thinking about numbers and scale
- Moving on to context
- Knowledge and library services in more detail
- Conclusion
- References
- 2 Strategic Development for Healthcare Knowledge and Library Services
- Why is strategy important?
- Hooks and levers
- National and local working in tandem
- Working strategically within a wider healthcare system
- Placing stakeholders at the heart of developing a strategy
- Steps for creating a strategy
- 3 Exploring the Training and Development Needs of the Healthcare Knowledge and Library Services Workforce: A Case Study
- Establishing routes into the sector
- Identifying development needs
- Quality assurance in learning provision - The NHS Knowledge for Healthcare Learning Academy
- Responding to changing priorities - COVID-19
- Needs of different staff groups
- 4 Advocacy and How Knowledge and Library Specialists Tailor Services to Meet the Needs of Their Stakeholders
- How are librarians advocating?
- Who should you advocate to?
- Tools of the trade
- Challenges
- Further reading
- 5 Mobilising Evidence and Knowledge
- Introduction and strategic context
- Defining mobilising evidence and knowledge
- Typical service overview: what does mobilising evidence and knowledge look like in the health sector? How does it fit with library services?
- NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework
- Mobilising evidence in practice
- Mobilising knowledge in practice
- The knowledge mobilisation self-assessment tool
- Measuring impact.
- Case studies: examples of evidence and knowledge mobilisation
- Reflective exercise
- The future
- 6 Internal and External Partnerships
- Current context for cross-sector partnership working
- How to identify partners and case studies
- How to identify existing partnerships
- How to identify potential partnerships
- Stakeholder analysis
- Case studies
- Challenges within a partnership
- The advantages of partnership working
- The key factors for effective partnership working
- Practical considerations
- Outcome measures to capture the impact of partnership working
- Summary
- 7 Health Literacy, Patient Information and Combating Misinformation
- What is health literacy?
- How many people are affected by low health literacy?
- Who is more likely to be affected by low health literacy?
- Why does low health literacy matter?
- Digital health literacy
- Health literacy in a pandemic
- Levels of health literacy
- Why does health literacy change?
- What is the impact of low health literacy?
- What is the role of NHS knowledge and library specialists?
- Health literacy in practice
- Health literacy in the prison environment
- Partnerships in health literacy
- Improving health literacy: some tools and techniques
- Exercises
- Summary and key learning points
- Acknowledgements
- Additional resources
- 8 Resource Discovery and Open Access
- Types of resources
- Systems
- Document supply and copyright
- Development of a national discovery platform for the NHS in England
- Collection development and management
- Open access
- 9 Growing the Evidence Base in Healthcare Knowledge and Library Services
- Introducing evidence-based library and information practice.
- The importance of growing the evidence base
- Skills for research
- Skills for supporting researchers
- Impact case studies
- Contributing to the evidence base
- 10 Measuring Progress, Value and Impact in NHS Knowledge and Library Services
- Metrics
- Health knowledge and library service statistics
- Reporting on national NHS knowledge and librarystatistics
- Knowledge for Healthcare Evaluation Framework
- Development of the Value and Impact Toolkit
- Making Alignment a Priority (MAP) Community: peer support for impact work
- 11 Reflective Practice in Healthcare Settings
- Theories of reflective practice
- Reflective practice for knowledge and library professionals
- Reflective practice for knowledge and library teams
- Reflective practice for the healthcare professions
- Reflective practice for healthcare teams
- Creative writing and reflective practice
- 12 Looking to the Future of Healthcare Knowledge Services
- The future of healthcare
- The future healthcare workforce
- Skills for the future
- Priorities for healthcare knowledge services in the future
- AI-powered knowledge services for the future
- Competencies for the future
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78330-595-9
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