Library News: October 2025

NEWS

Training and research librarian achieves Professional Excellence Status

Marg Purnell was awarded Professional Excellence Status in September, in recognition of her expertise in evidence-based practice, research support and her work as a mentor to professional colleagues and students.
Congratulations Marg!

Allied Health professional development day

Library Services will be delivering a training session on Literature searching and using the Health Library to  support your research at the Research Ready: Empowering Allied Health Innovation

professional development day at Palmerston Regional Hospital, on Friday 17 October 2025. For more information and to register visit the Allied Health intranet page.

Dynamic Health to replace Nursing Reference Centre

The new platform provides a  comprehensive solution for nursing and allied health professionals covering topics in nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, speech-language pathology, social work, and nutrition. Watch a tutorial exploring features of Dynamic Health or check out this new resource using the button below.

Library training room bookings

The Library has a number of meeting and training rooms available to book via your Outlook calendar. Book your room in advance for training, meetings, exams or for a quiet space to study.

UPCOMING TRAINING

Upcoming training: Finding the evidence for guidelines and policies

This session 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
Friday 10th October 2025, 10-11am

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 28th October 2025, 10-11am

Overcoming the trouble stories: a Warlpiri and Arrernte perinatal and infant social and emotional wellbeing story

There is a critical gap in culturally safe, community-led resources designed to support the perinatal and infant social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the Northern Territory. This project seeks to address this gap by developing a culturally grounded, strengths-based approach to perinatal and infant mental health and wellbeing.

Packham T*, Kanakkahewa N*. Australian College of Midwives National Conference: Midwifery Footprints 2025, Darwin, Northern Territory

A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the economic impact of environmental risk factors on inpatient hospital separations in the Northern Territory

To quantify the cost of hospital separations attributable to environmental risk factors in the Northern Territory, including for Indigenous and remote subgroups. A retrospective cross-sectional secondary data analysis of hospital separations data. Data collection, analysis and presentation were guided by our Indigenous Steering Committee.

 Lamba, G*, Esler, D, Zhao, Y*, Ward, T*, Connors, C*, Spry, M*. Med J Aust . 2025 Sep 30

Turning the tide on bronchiectasis in adult Aboriginal Australians: from neglect to action

This paper highlights recent insights into the disease profiles of bronchiectasis among adult Aboriginal populations, revealing a particularly high prevalence among rural and remote residing Aboriginal people that is disproportionately higher in comparison to global diverse ethnic cohorts.

Heraganahally S*, Howarth T, Heraganahally S, Duncan D*. Intern Med J. 2025 Sep;55(9):1578-1582

NT Health pharmacists making a difference to the health of Territorians:

Vancomycin dosing in patients on intermittent hemodialysis-a retrospective study

Martin J, Curtain CM, Salahudeen MS, Janson S, Kodgire S, & Tsai D. Clinical therapeutics. 2025;47(4):e1-e7

Validating a novel three-times-weekly post-hemodialysis ceftriaxone regimen in infected Indigenous Australian patients-a population pharmacokinetic study

Tsai D, Zam BB, Tongs C, Chiong F, Sajiv C, Pawar B, Ashok A, Cooper BP, Tong SYC, Janson S, Wallis SC, Roberts JA, & Parker SL. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy. 2025;78(8):1963-1973

NT Health pharmacists talk quality improvement on the national stage:

Trial of a team-based surgical pharmacy service model at a regional hospital

Eason T, Collins J, Howard C, Smith O, & Edmonds M. Medicines Management 2024, Adelaide, South Australia

See all journal articles and conference abstracts:
From Pharmacy teams
From the Medicines Management team
 

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.

LATEST HEALTH PUBLICATIONS

WHAT YOU'RE SAYING