Nervous about presenting?

For anyone who doesn't do a lot of training or presenting, and is planning on doing some in awareness week, but feeling a little nervous about it, here are a couple of nice quotes from a collection at TrainingZone:

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
Ethel Merman, US singer, actress (1909-1984)

"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."
Rob Gilbert, Australian sociologist

You can pick up more quotes on a whole range of topics to do with training from the TrainingZone pages.

AW Desktop Wallpaper

A big thank you to Siobhan Whitby from the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital in Shropshire - she's had a fiddle with the original NeLH Desktop Wallpaper and come up with an Awareness Week version. You can get it from the Publicity pages - scroll down to near the bottom of the page, and then follow the instructions for downloading it onto your computers.

Siobahn's going to try sweet-talking her IT department into setting the wallpaper on all the computers in the trust - if you can get your own IT department to help, that's a very quick way of spreading the word to lots of people.

Clinical Evidence Finding the Evidence Training Support Materials

Clinical Evidence Online have developed a Finding the Evidence Training Pack. It is very comprehensive and useful. It contains everything you need to run a Finding the Evidence Workshop including checklist, covering letter to trainees, exercises, evaluation, and trainee's workbook. You can find it by going to NeLH and clicking on Clinical Evidence. Under "What's New This Month?" there is a heading called Free EBM training materials. It is stored as a WinZip file and you have to register. NB It didn't work when I selected the View Trainer Module, so I just went straight for Download Zipped Word Document, which worked fine.

New web resource - Evidence4u

Just a line to tell you about the launch of a new web based educational aid for healthcare workers to build their skills in Evidence Based Healthcare.
The purpose of the website is to provide comprehensive tutorials about how to access, appraise and apply evidence to everyday practice. It gives the opportunity to learn (or brush-up on) the skills and techniques of evidence based practice, and work through a case scenario from start to finish. The website enables all healthcare workers to access these skills at any time, particularly when the skills are actually required.

The resource is a collaboration between the Manchester NHS Agency and the Evidence for Population Health Unit, University of Manchester, developed by myself and Dr John Sandars, Lecturer in the Evidence for Population Health Unit and the School of Primary Care at the University of Manchester.

I'd really appreciate your help in 2 ways - publicising the site with your users, and providing feedback to me to improve anything that needs it (as it can be changed and updated easily).

Go to www.evidence4u.org.uk
You have to register to get onto the site - click on the Register link, then choose your own username and password, which you can then use each time you want to go to the site.
Follow the links for each of the sections.

Thanks in advance for your help - I hope you find the resource useful.

DIY NeLH Awareness Stickers

The new elephant logo for NeLH Awareness Week, can be easily copied and pasted into a label file, providing you with quick and easy labels, which can be stuck onto envelopes, literature searches, anything that goes out to the library members. The label option which I am using is Avery - L7664 - Diskette. The logo size can be altered to suit other label options, but be careful of making it too small otherwise you won't be able to read the important message about telephone training.