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Nova Scotia Health Library Services has several new ebooks on our virtual shelves, thanks to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund (Cape Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish Strait region).

With funding from the trust fund, Library Services has added the following titles to support physicians, nurses and allied health providers. Doody’s Review Service highly recommends many of these titles.

To view the new ebooks:

1. Click on a title below.
2. Click on View full text at the top of the ebook record.

Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund Purchases:

Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (2023)

Trauma, Occupation, and Participation: Foundations and Population Considerations in Occupational Therapy (2021)

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD and Its Subtypes (2020)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for OCD: A Treatment Manual (2020)

Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook (2022)

Lymphatic Structure and Function in Health and Disease (2020)

The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2021)

Dialectical behavior therapy (2020)

Mastery of your anxiety and panic: therapist guide (2022)

Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (2022)

As Nova Scotia Health staff and physicians, you have access to more than 20,000 ebooks!

Looking for ebooks on a particular topic? Our Discover search (a Google-style search for library content) searches the library’s print and electronic resources, including full-text articles. Its built-in features bring relevant content to the top of your results so you can quickly find the content you need.

Searching in Discover will help you find resources in our own library collection and beyond. If you only want to search our ebooks, follow these steps:

On the library’s homepage:

1. Navigate to Search Sources (A) in the top navigation bar.
2. Select Discover (B) from the drop-down menu.

Under Search Nova Scotia Health Library Collections:

3. Select the Books (C) tab and enter title you’re looking for (D). 
4. Click on Search to find out if we have that title in our collection and how to access it.

If there's a book or other resource you think Library Services should add to our collection, please let us know! To suggest a purchase:

1. Click on the Services drop-down arrow at the top of the library’s homepage,
2. Click on Purchasing.
3. Under Suggest a Library Purchase, select the blue button:
4. Fill out and submit the electronic form.

NOTE On mobile devices, click on the grey button in the upper right corner of your screen, select Services and then Purchasing.

Thanks again to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund. As always, if you have any questions, please connect with us at AskLibrary@nshealth.ca.

Amanda Andrews

Librarian Educator, Education & Training Lead
Eastern Zone - Cape Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish

Library Services has several new ebooks on our virtual shelves. A selection of these ebooks have been added thanks to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund (Cape Breton, Guysborough, Antigonish Strait region).

Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund purchases

With funding from the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund, Library Services has added the following titles to support the practice of physicians, nurses, and allied health providers. Many of the titles are highly recommended by Doody's Review Service. 

Click on a title below to view the item's record in our catalogue, then simply click 'View ebook' to open.

• Clinical Consult to Psychiatric Mental Health: Management for Nurse Practitioners (2021)
• Damage Control Resuscitation: Identification and Treatment of Life-Threatening Hemorrhage (2020)
• Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management (2021)
• Fundamentals of Paramedic Practice: A Systems Approach (2020)
• Health Equity and Nursing: Achieving Equity Through Policy, Population Health, and Interprofessional Collaboration (2021)
• New Techniques for Brand Management in the Healthcare Sector (2021)
• Paramedic: A Quick Study Digital Reference Guide (2020)
• Telemedicine, Telehealth and Telepresence: Principles, Strategies, Applications and New Directions (2021)
• Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Healthcare (2021)

Additional ebooks added to the collection

• Acute Nursing Care: Recognising and Responding to Medical Emergencies (2021)
• Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine (2021)
• Fast Facts for the ER Nurse: Guide to a Successful Emergency Department Orientation (2022)
• Innovative Strategies in Teaching Nursing: Exemplars of Optimal Learning Outcomes (2021)   
• An Introduction to Indigenous Health and Healthcare in Canada: Bridging Health and Healing (2022)
• Oxford Handbook of Primary Care and Community Nursing (2021)

Looking for more ebooks like the ones we've selected? Try finding related titles using the Subject (MeSH) (Medical Subject Headings) links in each record:

1. Click on the ebook's title or the blue arrow to the left of the title to show the full catalogue record.
2. Click on one of the Subjects (MeSH) for more items on the same topic.

As Nova Scotia Health staff and physicians, you have access to more than 11,000 ebooks! If there is an ebook or other resource that you think Library Services should add to the collection, please let us know. On your computer, click on the 'Request' drop-down arrow at the top of this web page, then click on 'Suggestions for Library Purchase' and complete and submit the electronic form. On your mobile device simply click on the grey button in the upper right corner of your screen to find the 'Request' drop-down menu.

Thanks again to the generosity of the Dr. Chauhan Memorial Trust Fund. As always, if you have any questions, please connect with Library Services.

Amanda Andrews

Librarian Educator
Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Eastern Zone