Remote and virtual working ebooks available to Plymouth, SWASFT and Devon GP and ICB staff/students

The following REMOTE AND VIRTUAL WORKING electronic books are available to:

  • General Practices and ICB staff in Devon (enter Devon and select Primary Care and ICB staff in Devon as organisation when registering for Athens account)
  • Livewell Southwest
  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHPT)
  • South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT)
  • NHS OpenAthens account. All staff & students on placement at above organisations can register for free OpenAthens account at https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ For other resources see our subject pages

HBR Guide to Remote Work

How to Make Virtual Teams Work : Manage and Empower a Virtual Team That Thrives While Working from Home

The Long-Distance Teammate

Microsoft Teams for Dummies

Remote Facilitator’s Pocket Guide

Rituals for Virtual Meetings

Suddenly Hybrid : Managing the Modern Meeting

Suddenly Virtual : Making Remote Meetings Work

Virtual Facilitation : Create More Engagement and Impact

Work Together Anywhere : A Handbook on Working Remotely -Successfully- for Individuals, Teams, and Managers

 

You will need a NHS Athens account to access
register at
https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

 

You will be able to:

  • read the books online,
  • download individual pages as PDFs (per publisher limits for particular book)
  • download the whole book on to a laptop/desktop, android or iOS device for up to 3 months at a time (will need to download the free reader app when prompted to be able to download whole book).

We have unlimited simultaneous users and the books can be accessed on most internet enabled devices- does not have to be trust machine or NHS network.

To see all our ebooks got to www.swims.nhs.uk. Once you have searched for a title/topic please use filters on right and select

  • Location- Filter by Plymouth or South Western Ambulance or South Central Ambulance depending.
  • Material Type- Electronic Book.

To see other eresources journals, databases etc available with your Athens account go to:

Any problems or suggestions of additional content email library.mailbox@nhs.net

Discovery Library Team
(NHS Library for Plymouth health community and lead library for SWASFT)