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The e-Library for busy people: December

Each month, NHS Wales e-Library highlights special times throughout the year - to raise awareness and promote advocacy for health and well-being, important issues and interesting events.

This is also a good opportunity for us to share some of our great resources to support your evidence based practice!

 

 

This e-Library for busy people is taking a focus on

World Aids day

The following links will live search articles and book chapters on the named topics:

Search on AIDS or HIV in Adult

Search on AIDS or HIV in children

Search on AIDS or HIV in young people

Search on AIDS or HIV and health literacy

Search on AIDS or HIV and Older people

 

 

e-Journals:

AIDS

BMJ sexual and reproductive health

Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS

HIV Medicine

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

The Lancet, HIV

 

 

e-Books

Harward, M.P. (ed) (2019) Medical secrets. 6th edn. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.

Male, D. Stokes, P. and Male, V. (2025) Immunology. 10th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Mitchell, L. et al. (2019) Oxford handbook of genitourinary medicine, HIV, and sexual health. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spickett, G. (2020) Oxford handbook of clinical immunology and allergy. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

More books on Immunodeficiency

More books on HIV

More books on HIV AND AIDS

Evidence Summaries / Clinical Decision Support Tools

BMJ Best Practice: Overview of HIV

BMJ Best Practice: HIV in Adults

BMJ Best Practice: HIV in Pregnancy

BMJ Best Practice: HIV-related opportunistic infections

See specialities in BMJ Best Practice

 

Clinical Key: Initial Evaluation of Adults with HIV

Clinical Key: Diabetes in Patients with HIV

Clinical Key: Clinical overviews on HIV (Search)

Clinical Key: Drug Monographs on HIV (Search)

See more in Clinical Key

Visit all Evidence Summaries in NHS Wales e-Library

Guidelines

The All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre provide a crucial role in Wales in providing advice and guidelines on new medicines and make sure medicines are used effectively and appropriately in Wales.

Medicine Optimisation guidance and resources: https://awttc.nhs.wales/medicines-optimisation-and-safety/

Accessing Medicines: https://awttc.nhs.wales/accessing-medicines/

These resources are open for any user.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People’s Nursing Practices, 2nd Edn. This guideline contains 35 chapters to support Children and Young People’s Nursing practices.   

Chapter 4: Administration of Blood Components and Products

Chapter 11: Personal Hygiene and Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Chapter 12: Immunisation

Chapter 13: Infection Prevention and Control

Chapter 21: Neurological Care

Chapter 22: Nutrition and Feeding

Chapter 35: When a child or young person dies

 

Royal Marsden Manual for Clinical Nursing and Cancer Procedures:

Royal Marsden Manual search on Wellbeing

 

Medicines Information

MedicinesComplete: provides medicines information and guidance on the safe use and administration of drugs and medicines. From diagnosis, to prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications, MedicinesComplete allows access to evidence-based support for health professionals.

MedicinesComplete contains a range of information and evidence relating to:

Point of Need: 

Drug Administration 

Specialist  

Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

Reference 

 

 

NEWT Guidelines:

  • NEWT Guidelines includes information on how to prepare solid dose formulations for administration via enteral feeding tubes, and how to solve problems such as tube blockage and enteral feed interactions

 

More Information about Medicines

 

e-Learning

BMJ Learning Ask an Expert: HIV in Primary Care

BMJ Learning HIV Infection: Diagnostic Picture Tests of mucocutaneous and dermatological lesions

BMJ Learning Public Health

BMJ Learning Professional Skills

BMJ Learning Communication Skills

BMJ Learning Quality Improvement

BMJ Learning Varied Voices: How to make research more inclusive and diverse through public involvement (NEW course)

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