Therese Brady Library News Vol 1 Is 4

Thérèse Brady Library News

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In this issue; •

Library news

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Resource &

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trial updates

Library Training sessions

Conference

As the academic year has ended and we enter the summer wind down,

dates

the library’s monthly training sessions will be on hold until September.

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If anyone would like to suggest areas for future library training pass them

overview •

Summer break

Book Review

on to laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie Currently on the agenda for the new semester’s library training classes are sessions on database searching, using the internet for research and

New titles list Click to view new titles

alternative sources of information but additional suggestions are always welcome.

Summer Loans – Students and library members wishing to have book loans extended for the summer period should contact the library.

Library Summer Hours

The Therese Brady Library opening hours will remain largely unchanged during the summer months (9.00 - 5.30 Monday to Friday). Late opening on Wednesday’s (until 7 pm) will be suspended until October.

For up to date information on any holiday-related changes to library opening hours keep an eye on the library blog.

You can subscribe to blog updates by email by clicking the ‘email subscription’ button on the right side menu of the blog home page or you can receive updates via RSS feed by clicking the ‘RSS feed – posts’ link half way down the right side menu.

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Thérèse Brady Library News –Vol. 1 Is. 4 May/June 2010

Resource Updates CINAHL & Psychology & Behavioral Science collection

Resource news, trials and updates

A reminder that the additional month of trial access to CINAHL & Psychology & Behvioral Science Collection via EBSCOhost ends on July 2nd.

Please make sure to take advantage of the trial access while it is in place.

Usage for CINAHL & PBSC during trial access has been very high so we hope to have full subscriptions to these databases in place for the new academic year ... watch this space.

Google Scholar – now with email alerts Google’s academic search function ‘google scholar’ recently introduced a new email alert function. Though the vast majority of academic databases have this function as does PubMed, Google Scholar alerts offer the opportunity to return results from sources not indexed in other academic databases, like patents and legal opinions.

Remember – If you are having difficulty retrieving the full text of a required article contact the library

To set up a basic search simply enter your search terms into google scholar and hit search then click on the envelope icon and select ‘create alert’ to save your search as an alert. The best way to use the google scholar email alerts is to run your search in the ‘advanced scholar search’ mode. Here you can search by article title, by author, keyword etc. so updates for new articles which meet your search criteria will be emailed directly to you. Another useful feature is the ability to set up alerts for citations of specific articles. Go to the article you want to create the citation alert for in the search results, under the article title click on the ‘cited by…’ link and create the alert so each new citation of the article will be emailed to you. It is not possible to set up alerts for specific titles however most journals provide email or RSS table of content alerts which fulfill this function As always, do remember that google scholar is simply a web search engine, so unless a search result is from an open access publication or you are accessing it via a library ejournal or database, you will not necessarily have access to the full text of the item.

If anyone would like more information or help with setting up alerts email laura.rooneyferris@hospice-foundation.ie

Conferences and dates for July & August •

July 15th – University of Glamorgan - What do we do with Death? Death, dying & learning disabilities’

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July 20-21 - Warwick University – Cruse bereavement care annual conference

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Aug 24th -27th – Maynooth – EASA Conference - Includes the workshop ‘Death & imagination; creative strategies to embrace and avoid the crisis of death’ 2

Article overviews

Thérèse Brady Library News - Vol. 1 Is. 4 May/June 2010

Bereavememt The special olympics took place in Limerick between June 10th & 13th. The Irish Hospice Foundation’s display featured details of some of the Therese Brady Library’s titles addressing bereavement in people with intellectual disabilities. Two recently acquired titles in this area are ‘Am I going to die?’ by Sheila Hollins & Irene Turrfey-Wijne and ‘When somebody dies’

by Sheila Hollins, Sandra Dowling and Noelle Blackman. Both books are part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘Books Beyond Words’ series which aims to make communication about illness and death easier for people with intellectual disabilities or adults with literacy problems. These titles are available to borrow from the library. Other recent additions to the library collection can be

Palliative care & End-of-Life With increasing debate regarding Palliative sedation the US National Hospice & Palliative Care Organisation released a new Statement on palliative sedation on May 11th. The statement aims to alleviate misunderstanding regarding palliative sedation and assist hospice and healthcare organisations in developing their own position on palliative sedation.

In the UK, the General Medical Council issued a new guidence on ‘Treatment and care towards to end of life’. The guidence

Reviews

which officially goes into effect on July 1st

An overview

replaces the 2002 guidelines on

of selected

publications

prolonging treatments and develops upon

The current volume of Omega; the journal of death and dying (Vol 61 Is 2) features an article by Mary Ann Clute entitled ‘Bereavement interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities; what works’ which outlines the increasing need to identify best practice and successful interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities.

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guidance in Consent, patients and doctors

bereavement

making decisions together,

palliative care, hospice

End-of-Life Issues

browsed by clicking the ‘new titles’ list on page 1.

articles and

Withholding and withdrawing life-

and end of

The May 19th launch of the Hospice

life care

Friendly Hospitals ‘National audit of end-of-

research

life care in hospitals’ and the ‘Quality

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standards for end of life care in hospitals’

featured articles are

end of life practice and proceedure in Irish

available on

hospitals has been put firmly on the

request

agenda.

from the

Despite increased emphasis on end-of-life

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care in the NHS, the May 11th Nursing

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Times article ‘Last offices neglected in over half hospital deaths’ indicated that a

lack of guidelines on last offices means For regular updates on research &

basic steps to ensure dignity and

resources of interest subscribe to the

respect following a death are often not

library blog

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Book Review

Palliative care for all

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‘So much for that’ By; Lionel Shriver (2010)

The increasing importance of improved end-of-life care for end stage dementia

Fans of Lionel Shriver will be pleased to note her latest offering

patients was highlighted in Thune-Boyle

does little to strip her of the angry (not so) young woman title

et al’s article ‘Challenges to improving

she’s been labelled with through novels like the Orange prize

end-of-life care for people with advanced

winning ‘We need to talk about Kevin’

dementia in the UK’ in Dementia . The

In ‘So much for that’ Shriver turns her attention to the US

article indicates that with Dementia set to rise palliative care pathways are necessary to eliminate unnecessary and

healthcare industry and quite literally, the business of dying.

Shep Knacker, through a combination of frugality and the sale of his successful handy man business has amassed an impressive nest egg for a retirement he plans to enjoy on the remote

often detrimental hospital admissions for

Tanzanian island of Pemba. His wife Glynis, never entirely keen

people with advanced dementia.

on what Shep refers to as ‘the afterlife’ resists the big move leaving Shep to deliver an ultimatum; he’s going, with or without

The new national cardiovascular health

her. However, Glynis’ revelation that she is suffering from

policy launched on June 10th draws on

metastatic peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare cancer gives her

recommendations of the ‘Palliative care

ample reason to decline the one way ticket, derailing Sheps get

for all’ report in recognising the need for

away and over the next year obliterating his nest egg.

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palliative care interventions for heart failure patients and recommending cardiac and stroke units have access to specialist palliative care.

Drawing on personal experience (Shriver lost a close friend to mesothelioma) she details the physical, emotional and in precise detail the financial fall out from Glynis’ battle with cancer. Far from a stoic victim, Glynis refuses to go gently into that good night and there is probably more than a little of Shriver herself in the character. To round out this critique of the price tagged approach to US healthcare is Shep’s elderly father’s experience of the nursing home system and Flicka, teenage daughter of Shep and Glynis’ close friends who suffers from familial dysautonomia,

Compiled by; Laura Rooney Ferris

a condition which has ravaged her parent’s marriage and finances

Information & Library Manager

as severely as it has her autonomic nervous system.

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The dialogue can at times seem to be simply Shriver’s raging

Irish Hospice Foundation

against a broken system which following US healthcare reform is

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at least being addressed.

Her characters succeed in climbing out from behind the agenda though and ‘So much for that’ offers a brave and often moving account of the effect of terminal illness on a marriage, the renewed sense of spirit and the lengths to which we will go to in the end to secure a good death for those we love.

4 ‘So much for that’ is available to borrow from the Therese Brady Library