Effective communication for health literacy
How you communicate with a patient can profoundly impact their experience and how they manage their health when they leave your care. Not everyone has the same level of health literacy and it is important to tailor your communication to suit the person you are speaking to. Use plain language where possible and seek support if you feel your message is not being understood.
We have put together a page to point you towards a range of resources, toolkits, language guides and interpreters who can help.
The library team has collated all of our resources relating to alcohol and other drugs into one page to help you find the information you need, faster. Browse the relevant ebooks, journals, medications databases, point of care tools and research databases now.
Congratulations to our health librarian A'Mhara for receiving the Zip Print Short Story Award for the second year in a row at the 2023 Northern Territory Literary Awards, this time with her story Blood and Dust.
Upcoming training: Finding the evidence for guidelines and policies
This workshop is designed to assist staff tasked with the development or review of guidelines or policies to choose the best available evidence from the most appropriate health databases.
Delivered via MS Teams Tuesday 17th October 2023, 10am
"The most culturally safe training I've ever had": the co-design of a culturally safe Managing hepatitis B training course with and for the Aboriginal health workforce of the Northern Territory of Australia.
Authors recount the journey towards a successful, co-designed and culturally safe health training course.
Hosking K, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Aug 31;23(1):935
Image taken from article: Fig 2. Process model to develop culturally safe training, adapted from cultural safety frameworks and Maslow’s hierarchy. (Hosking et al. 2023, Page 8)
Factors leading to diagnostic delay in tuberculosis in the tropical north of Australia
Through a historical cohort analysis the authors describe delays in TB diagnoses, risk factors for delayed diagnosis, and links between delay and clinical outcomes.
Vigneswaran N, et al. Intern Med J. 2023 Sep 9 [online ahead of print].
Tutorials Online 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 A-Z. The information covers frequently asked questions such as registering accounts, searching and extracting information.
Government-supported clinical knowledge and information resource portals are key to ensuring quality, safe health care and evidence-based practice - the Australian context
Comparison of government-funded electronic clinical knowledge resources available to health professionals in each Australian state and territory.
Siemensma G., et al. Australian Health Review 2023 Sep 7 [online ahead of print].
Statistics on the number of deaths, by sex, selected age groups, and cause of death classified to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 2022.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS Website. Updated 27 September 2023.
A summary of welfare and wellbeing with key findings on social support, safety, justice, housing and more. Includes topics summaries linking welfare and health.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Australian Government. accessed 7th September 2023.
Check out the range of new 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.
NT Health Library Services acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout the Northern Territory and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A YEAR IN REVIEW
Find out more about what we achieved together in 2022.
