Thérèse Brady Library News
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Welcome note
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Library news
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Resource update
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Conference dates
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Article reviews
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Book review
Welcome Note itle of Article Four 3 Welcome to the inagural newsletter of the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Thérèse Brady Library. The newsletter will go out monthly to all Hospice Foundation and affiliated staff and students, our external and professional library members and associated members. Feel free to pass the newsletter on to colleagues or associates or to contact laura.rooneyferris@hospicefoundation.ie to subscribe. The newsletter will update on changes in the library, new resources, new library acquisitions and overviews of a selection of the months research articles and press coverage in the areas of bereavement, palliative and endoflife care. Other regular features include; book reviews, conference updates and resource spotlights.
Library news New titles list Click to view new titles for January
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Library access for external members
The library now operates a research and professional membership scheme for members of the public working or researching in the areas of bereavement, hospice or endoflife care. Annual membership can be obtained for a €20 dontation and entitles users to full access to the library collection to borrow books and access resources. If you have friends or work collegues who might be interested in access to the library contact laura.rooneyferris@hospicefoundation.ie
Open access to the library and limited book borrowing facilities are also available to the bereaved as part of our bereavement support function. •
Save the date!
March 9th – The library will launch a new master leaflet of bereavement resources and bibliotherapy titles. The launch will coincide with library Ireland week. Further details will be available in the February newsletter
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Resource Update Throughout February the Library (so by extension you) will have trial access to two academic electronic databases via EBSCO host. The trial will provide access to both CINAHL full text and EBSCO’S Psychology & Behavioural Science Collection.
Cinahl full text trial access in February
CINAHL or Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature is the most comprehensive database of nursing, allied health and general healthcare literature. It provides full text access to 600 journals dating back to 1981 with abstracts and indexes for 1950 titles and a cumulative total of 2,000,000 records. Some of the titles of interest include; • American journal of hospice & palliative care • Hospice journal • European journal of palliative care • International journal of palliative nursing Click HERE for CINAHL full title lists . And on the Psychology & behavioural Sciences collection titles include; • Journal of loss & Trauma • Palliative Medicine • The Lancet Click Here for full title lists Access to these databases will be automatic via IP recognition on site but a username and password will be distrubuted for global access. Guides on searching will also be sent out but contact laura.rooneyferris@hospicefoundation.ie if you need help navigating or searching either database. This is aimed to be the first of a series of database trials through the year. The trials should give you a chance to try out some leading electronic databases, so please use them frequently and pass on any feedback on how useful you find these resources and whether you would like the library to obtain a full subscription.
Conferences and dates for February 4th IAPC annual education and research seminar Conference to be held in Boyne Valley Hotel, Drogheda 4th & 5th –Supporting the bereaved, Irish Hospice foundation Workshop with Dr Susan Delaney (details of all workshops available HERE 24th – Better investment better dying – National Council for Palliative Care, UK More details of upcoming conferences are available on the Library blog
Bereavememt
Article Reviews
Recent events in Haiti have drawn focus on
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bereavement issues following natural disaster.
End of life care
The current issue of Death Studies (Vol. 34 Is. 2) features an article titled ‘Predictors of
The Royal College of Physicians released ‘Oral
complicated grief after natural disaster; a
feeding, difficulties and dilemmas; a practical
population study two years after the 2004
guide to care particularly towards the end of life’
south east asian tsunami. The article by
on January 6th. The report which provides ethical
Kristensen, Weisaeth & Heir is a cross
as well as clinical guidelines on feeding
sectional study of Norwegians bereaved by the
difficulties prompted debate on artificial feeding
Tsunami aiming to identify predicters of
and hydration in dying patients with particular
complicated grief. The article is available
focus on feeding of dementia patients. The full
online via ADEC
report is available from the library.
Good Grief; Is there a better way to be
The current Volume of International Journal of
publications in
bereaved By Meghan O’ Rourke
Palliative Nursing (Vol. 16 Is 1) features a
bereavement,
This New Yorker article examines the legacy
review article examining communication of
palliative care,
of Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s lecturers and
terminal diagnosis. ‘Truth telling and the
hospice and end of
subsequent publications on death and dying
palliative diagnosis; reflections on truth telling
life care research
out of which the ‘stage theory’ of the
and the management of sensitive information at
bereavement process emerged.
the end of life’ by John Costello indicates there is
O’ Rourke’s article, like current bereavement
still a lack of full and frank disclosure in end of
theory addresses the oversimplification of the
life care.
staged approach to grieving, acknowledging
that bereavement is rather a more ‘messy’
The development of best practice guidelines in
emotional process.
palliative care is examined in ‘What best practice could be in palliative care; an analysis of
*This article also features a link to a podcast
statements on practice and ethics expressed by
interview with Meghan O’ Rourke on her
main health organizations’ in the open access
personal bereavement journal and our cultural
journal BMC Palliative Care. The article
responses to grieving.
provides an overview of official statements and
current guidelines on palliative care in the interest of developing standard practices.
Reviews An overview of selected articles and
Book review
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Things the grandchildren should know Palliative care for all
By Mark Oliver Everett (2008)
Irish Medical News reported on research by Beaumont hospital’s Department of Psychiatry on the poor quality of palliative care for dementia ‘The flag was flying at half mast and I was thinking about
patients. The research article ‘Quality of end of life care for
how, everyone was dying and maybe its time, to live…’ For a book
dementia patients during acute hospital admission;
marketed as a rock memoir by virtue of the author’s day job (frontman of
a retrospective study in Ireland’ by Afzal et al
the band the Eels under the pseudonym E) the body count in ‘Things the
published in General Hospital Psychiatry details
grandchildren should know’ is up there with a good war movie. By page
the challenges and shortfall in provision of end of
two you realize the extent to which ‘everyone is dying’ and that the book is
life care for dementia patients.
not so much an invitation into Everett’s rock and roll lifestyle but an
intimate presentation of personal loss.
This month’s issue of the British Journal of
Everett recounts a detached, unorthodox upbringing; son of the physicist
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Hugh Everett, originator of the many worlds theory of quantum mechanics.
is dedicated to palliative care for non cancer
So distant was Everett senior that when the 19 year old E discovers his
patients. It features articles on heart failure,
lifeless body following a heart attack it is recalled as the only time he has
dementia, respiratory and motor neurone disease
touched his father. Over the course of the next 254 pages, between tales of
and multiple sclerosis as well as an editorial by
his developing musical career Everett details his sister’s battle with
Max Watson on the need to extend palliative care
schizophrenia, culminating in her suicide in 1996. She is followed two
beyond oncology.
years later by his mother whose battle with cancer is touchingly and poignantly shared as is weight and loneliness of E’s position as sole survivor of the Everett family. The continuing tragedy of subsequent deaths of band members and close friends is unrelenting. However, for a book saturated in loss what is most surprising about ‘Things the grandchildren should know’ is its life affirming outlook. Everett is a witty narrator with a relaxed, conversational prose style. Even
Compiled by; Laura Rooney Ferris
in the darkest episodes the tone is free of self pity or the ‘book of the week’
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platitudes all too common in the literature of loss. ‘Things the
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grandchildren should know’ is that rarest of memoirs in its lack of ego and
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an even rarer still in its frank retelling of tragedy and loss. As says E ‘I'm
Follow us on;
like a cockroach. I just keep going.’ and you will with him all the way to the end. ‘Thing the grandchildren should know’ is available from the library
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