Databases

OpenAthens login required. You might have to choose an organisation. Type Coventry or type NHS in England and you should then be able to use your Athens login.

BMJ Best Practice is an evidence-based practice resource from the publishers of the British Medical Journal. No special searching skills are required. You are encouraged to create a personal account in order to use the CME/CPD service and download the mobile App for Android or Apple devices.

In addition to clinical topics, BMJ Best Practice includes UK-produced patient information leaflets, drug information from the BNF and BNF for Children, evidence-based practice resources in collaboration with Cochrane Clinical Answers, and free CME/CPD accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners and many international professional bodies.

CKS provides summaries of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice for a range of clinical scenarios. 

You can access the full text of more than 600 online journals and approximately 1,500 books published by Elsevier Science, and the full text of clinical guidelines from several important international sources, including NICE. The Drug Monographs section includes information from the British National Formulary (BNF) and BNF for Children. Additional access is provided to online journals from other publishers via the Online @ UHCW links. Please use ClinicalKey  and CK Nursing in conjunction with the UHCW Formulary and Guidelines.

OpenAthens login required. The first time you log in, activate your OpenAthens and create a personal registration on ClinicalKey in order to be able to download PDFs of book chapters, creating PowerPoint presentations and using the ClinicalKey Mobile App Look at the top right of the ClinicalKey / CK Nursing screen. If you don’t see your name, you will need to activate.

You can swap between ClinicalKey and CK Nursing, and your search history, saved searches, saved content and presentations will transfer between CK and CK Nursing. This is useful when you want to check for additional search results without having to redo your search, or when you want to add images to an existing presentation.

CK Nursing, the nursing edition of ClinicalKey, provides tailored content for nurses, including full text books, journals and  a presentation maker. 
OpenAthens login required. For downloading PDFs of book chapters, creating PowerPoint presentations and using the ClinicalKey Mobile App, you will first need to activate a personal registration on the Clinical Key / CK Nursing website, which will then be linked with your OpenAthens login. Look at the top right of the ClinicalKey / CK Nursing screen. If you don’t see your name, you will need to do this.
Activating your OpenAthens will also allow you to swap between ClinicalKey and CK Nursing, and your search history, saved searches, saved content and presentations will transfer between CK and CK Nursing. This is useful when you want to check for additional search results without having to redo your search, or when you want to add images to an existing presentation.
We can provide demos and tutorials in using CK Nursing.

Quick and easy access to clinical topic summaries, images and review articles with links to full text of the best available evidence, including Cochrane reviews, national and international guidelines (e.g. NICE, SIGN, professional associations), published RCTs and relevant quality-assessed patient information. British drug information from E-Medicines Compendium is also included, but please make sure you also check with the UHCW Formulary and relevant Trust guidelines. DynaMed is updated daily.

OpenAthens login required. You can then create a personal login on DynaMed, which allows you to

• obtain CME/CPD accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners
• follow DynaMed topics
• get the DynaMed App for Android & Apple mobile devices

View the EBSCO DynaMed - Tutorial

OpenAthens login required. The online Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures 10th edition supports nursing care with evidence-based clinical content. Since 2021 there is a link to the Student Companion, which includes many learning activities.
UHCW’s own nursing policies and procedures are being added to the Royal Marsden Manual to ensure it reflects best practice. While this work is in progress, please make sure to cross-reference with the relevant UHCW policies, procedures and clinical guidelines on eLibrary.

To access the Royal Marsden Manual via TrustNav, type Royal Marsden into the TrustNav search box. This will bring up the Library Quick Links page, where you will find a link to the Royal Marsden Manual that does not require any login.