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French teaching resources

This site is maintained by La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the French national Library. It is designed to offer school teachers free access to a collection of teaching and study guides based on its resources.

There are also some multimedia and sound resources, suggested lesson plans and bibliographies of weblinks and further readings. Copyright information is displayed on the website. All information is offered in French only.

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Role of the rehabilitation nurse

This guidance has been published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in November 2007. The overall aim of this workbook is to offer a framework on which nurses can base their rehabilitation practice. It enables nurses to identify specific aspects of their roles in rehabilitation, to relate theory to practice and to raise the profiles of rehabilitation and intermediate care nursing in the UK.

Maternity Services review

The Healthcare Commission has published the results of a comprehensive review of NHS maternity services. The review looked at the period from when a woman first contacts a maternity service to her final contact with a midwife, usually around 10 days after a birth. It used 25 indicators, ranging from the type of scans women receive to staffing levels and the number of times a woman has contact with a midwife after going home. The review drew on a survey of over 26,000 mothers as well as data collected from trusts. Indicators drawn from the survey include women’s experience of the cleanliness of units and whether they felt supported to breastfeed. The Commission ranked 26% of maternity services as ‘best performing’ (38 trusts), 32% were ‘better performing’ (47 trusts), 22% as ‘fair performing’ (32 trusts) and 21% as ‘least well performing’ (31 trusts).

Machines, markets and morals: the new politics of a democratic NHS

This site provides free access to the full text of a 51 page pamphlet by Neal Lawson which was published by left-wing think tank Compass in January 2008. It discusses the funding and management of the NHS (National Health Service) under the labour government. Issues covered include the NHS and markets and the use of public private partnerships. The author calls for a new approach.

Exercise during pregnancy

Guidance issued by the Institute of Sport and Recreation Management (ISRM) on the safety of exercise during pregnancy. The aim of this 3-page report is to highlight to health professionals, coaches and instructors the risks and benefits to women of exercise during pregnancy and the steps that can be taken to minimise risk.

Two resources for psychologists!

All About Psychology: A newly-launched website written and updated by a UK academic. Here’s what the site says: “Definitions, history, topic areas, theory and practice, careers, debates, course directories and study skills will all be covered in detail here. The website will also highlight and explore the most fascinating and compelling psychology related news and research.” Worth a look for students and tutors.

Also spotted this well-established site, perhaps you know about it already: All Psych Online: “one of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet.  Inside the site you’ll find over over 920 individual, cross referenced, web pages and an estimated 3000 pages of printed material.”

Cochrane Library tutorials

There are now brand new, free-to-view online tutorials for the Cochrane Library, available at interscience.wiley.com/tutorials.

Specifically, the following tutorials will tell you all you need to know about Cochrane – what it is, what we use it for, and how to search it. OK, the first tutorial seems to have a bit of a bias on promoting Wiley, but still worth a look. When you click a link, you’ll be asked to fill in your first/last names, your email address, your organisation and your country – then watch the slideshow! There’s even sound!

1. The Cochrane Library – an introduction

2. Tips on Advanced and MESH searching

3. Setting up Saved Searches and e-mail Alerts

Business Information on the Internet

Business Information on the Internet is a really useful web site – selected sources of business information organised by type e.g. statistics, share prices, company registers.