Library News: April 2025

Chief Executive, Chris Hosking was present at the Showcase morning at Alice Springs. In his address he affirmed and encouraged the importance of all research being conducted in the Northern Territory. Chris also announced the winners of the Research Poster competition and presented the prizes and certificates to the winners.

The Library Services team would like to thank everyone who presented at the week’s events or who helped to deliver this successful event. Thank you also to the 150 people who expanded their research capacity through their attendance of one or more of the sessions held.

Research poster competition winners
A huge thank you to all entrants and judges for making the research poster competition a success! We received a total of 10 research posters, an incredible variety of submissions, presenting new original research and program implementation related to improving patient outcomes.

The posters were judged by Naomi Morick (Director of Nursing Midwifery Education, ASH) and Nicole Norman (Director Nursing and Midwifery (CLEaRS), RDH). The judging criteria was based on clarity, organisation, visual appeal and key information conveyed using headings such as objectives, methods, results and conclusion. 

Congratulations to all winners:

1st Prize: Elizabeth Ross and Alana Sweeney: Trauma Service, NCCTRC, RDH
2nd Prize: Dr Allison Gray: Central Australian Safety and Quality Manager, ASH
3rd Prize: Emil Tabbada (and team): Respiratory Clinical Nurse Coordinator, ASH
(Photo above: Marg Purnell with 1st prize winners Lizzy and Alana in Darwin and, Chief Executive, Chris Hosking with 2nd and 3rd prize winners Allison and Emil in Alice Springs)

Click on the images below to view full posters.

     

You can browse all the poster entries online or visit the Darwin Health Library to see posters on display in the library.

NEWS

Learn & upskill at your own pace

The Library's Tutorials page provides links and videos for NT Health staff to connect to help guides, fact sheets and videos to assist with using the Library databases and tools.
 
Improve your information literacy skills by taking one of our 5 minute tutorials on Finding eJournals and articles or Searching for scholarly literature using Google Scholar.

Antibiotic guidelines update

Therapeutic Guidelines has released an extensive multidisciplinary update to Antibiotic guidelines content. There are hundreds of updates to clinical topics and drug recommendations, new calculators and more. 

You'll need to update your bookmarks, shortcuts or favourite links to Antibiotic topics as soon as possible, as your existing bookmarks may no longer work.

UPCOMING TRAINING

Upcoming training: Finding health statistics

An introductory session designed for health professionals who need help with finding statistics data for clinical work, research or study.

Guest Speakers from the Health Statistics and Informatics team and Clinical Analytics team.

Delivered via MS Teams
Tuesday 29th April 2025, 10-11am

A novel case of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius aortitis

Describes the first case of invasive S. pseudintermedius infection causing aortitis and mycotic aneurysm in an 83-year-old patient, treated successfully with flucloxacillin. This case highlights the potential for S. pseudintermedius to cause serious endovascular infection in humans.

Jones D  Lim M  Olenski M*. Access Microbiol. 2025 Mar 28;7(3):000912.v3. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000912.v3

Sputum microbiology data and related clinical outcomes among adult Aboriginal Australians with bronchiectasis

This study assesses the sputum microbiology profile among Aboriginal patients aged ≥18 years with chest computed tomography-confirmed bronchiectasis in the Top End Northern Territory of Australia.

Gibbs C*  Howarth T  Venkatesan S*  Heraganahally S Abeyaratne A*  Heraganahally S*. Intern Med J. 2025 Mar 11. doi: 10.1111/imj.70020

A systematic review of prevention strategies for type 2 diabetes in First Nations children and young people

This review aims to identify interventions for the prevention of T2D in First Nations children and young people aged 4-25 years.

Carino M  Nguyen J  New RH  Kirkham R  Maple-Brown L*  Mack S  MacKay D*  Titmuss A*. Pediatr Obes. 2025 Mar 10:e70009. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.70009

NEW BOOKS

Check out the range of new print and electronic books this month 
Read new eBooks from any device using your NTG LAN login. New books can be sent to you via internal mail or you can pick them up from your nearest library.

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