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Nursing: Home

A subject guide for nursing.

Welcome to the Nursing library pages!

Here you'll find lots of information on how to find books and journal articles for your assignments, how to reference, and how to get help when you get stuck.

If you can't find what you need here or get stuck, use the contact information on the right of this page to get in touch with the library's Human and Health Sciences subject team.  We'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Reading Well for Mental Health

Reading Well for Mental Health is a scheme developed by public health professionals and public libraries to provide self-help reading for a wide range of situations, life changes, and conditions. The list of titles available in this resource are all recommended by Student Wellbeing Services and provided by the University Library. The list is browsable (but searchable) in this link:

Reading Well title list.

Alternatively, if you prefer to look quickly for a specific subject the Wellbeing site has a the titles in a more structured format:

Student Wellbeing reading.

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Accessing resources with NHS Athens

If you have any questions about regisering for and accessing NHS resources using a specialist log in (i.e.one that is NOT your normal University log in), we have made instructions available here. For further guidance beyond registration, please refer to the School for support.

Key resources

Referencing the BNF

To create a reference for the print BNF, please refer to the 'reference books' section of the referencing guide.
To create a reference for the web version e.g. on NICE, follow the following style (based on the guide's webpage referencing):

British National Formulary. (2024). Vacuum assisted closure products. NICE. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/wound-management/vacuum-assisted-closure-products.html 

If you are still having difficulties creating the reference, contact us at library@hud.ac.uk

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

Box of Broadcasts (also known as BoB) is an archive of free-to-air TV and radio programmes available to you through the University of Huddersfield Library subscription.  You can choose to watch previously recorded programmes, request future programmes and save lists of programmes for your learning, teaching or research.

Click on the tabs above for a series of instructional videos to take you through the basics of using Box of Broadcasts.

                                               Box of Broadcasts promotion poster http://hud.ac/hpj

Click on this link to go direct to BoB. You can also access it from the A-Z list of electronic resources, and find BoB under the letter B.

You will be prompted to log in with your University login and password. The first time you access BoB, it will ask you to register your university email address (undergraduates and postgraduate taught students = u1234567@unimail.hud.ac.uk). You will need to confirm your address by checking your email and clicking on the link provided.

 

Here's a useful video from Learning on Demand who run Box of Broadcasts.

 

This short video shows you how to request TV and radio programmes to be recorded.

Box of Broadcasts provides extensive help on their website:

Frequently asked questions

How to use BoB videos

If you have any further questions, contact your Subject Librarian at the Help Centre on Floor 4 of the Library or email library@hud.ac.uk and we will be happy to help.

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