Noclor Programme Training
Working with Noclor, we are proud to offer the following training sessions to NLFT South (formerly Camden & Islington Trust) and NLFT North nursing and allied health professionals; plus Whittington Health and NCL ICS colleagues. The sessions are delivered on MS Teams.
To book on to any of these sessions please email us at [email protected] or call us on 020 7288 3580.
Noclor Programme: What the Library Can Do for Me - an Introduction to Library Services
In this introductory session you will find out how the Library can help your research interests, how it can help you deliver evidence based care, and how it can support your learning and development at work. The session covers using the Library space, joining and getting an 九游体育 OpenAthens account, book and journal requests, the Library web site, KnowledgeShare (for regular subject alerts) and the 九游体育 Knowledge and Library Hub.
- Thursday 22 May 15:00-15:30
- Monday 16 June 11:30-12:00
- Friday 11 July 13:00-13:30
Noclor Programme: Finding the Evidence
Learn how to retrieve the research literature you are looking for by devising and executing a good search strategy using both keyword and subject heading searches. You will gain the skills to search the 九游体育 Library and Knowledge Hub as well as primary research databases effectively by combining searches using AND/OR operators, refine your results using limits; and export, email, save your results.
- Thursday 24 April 13:30-14:30
- Friday 2 May 14:30-15:30
- Monday 09 June 11:30-12:30
- Tuesday 15 July 12:30-13:30
Noclor Programme: Quick-fire Critical Appraisal of QUANTITATIVE Research
Introduces the main concepts involved in critical appraisal of quantitative research, and discusses features of research papers using selected questions from the appropriate . The session covers basic statistical concepts necessary for understanding results.
- Monday 12 May 13:00-14:00
- Thursday 05 June 11:00-12:00
- Wednesday 2 July 12:00-13:00
Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research Workshops can also be arranged by appointment. In these 2-hour interactive sessions, attendees will use a CASP checklist to appraise a paper that they've read beforehand, with a librarian facilitating the discussion and introducing key concepts as they go. These sessions can be held in-person or online, at a time and place of your group's convenience. Contact the library to arrange a session.
Noclor Programme: Quick-fire Critical Appraisal of QUALITATIVE Research
Learn how to understand key elements in the successful and accurate appraisal of a paper, discuss the features of qualitative research and the key terminology associated with it, and understand how to use a to critically appraise a qualitative research article.
- Tuesday 20 May 13:30-14:30
- Wednesday 25 June 14:30-15:30
- Wednesday 23 July 09:30-10:30
Introduction to Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Research Workshops can also be arranged by appointment. In these 2-hour interactive sessions, attendees will use a CASP checklist to appraise a paper that they've read beforehand, with a librarian facilitating the discussion and introducing key concepts as they go. These sessions can be held in-person or online, at a time and place of your group's convenience. Contact the library to arrange a session.
Noclor Programme: Academic Writing
In this session, you will learn to define the key concepts of a paper, make evidence-based arguments, and present your viewpoints critically and logically in academic writing, with opportunities to practice your new skills.
Wednesday 2 April 11:30-12:30- FULLY BOOKED- Friday 9 May 12:30-13:30
- Monday 2 June 13:30-14:30
- Monday 28 July 14:00-15:00
Noclor Programme: Getting into Research
In this one hour introductory session you will learn how you can get started with a research project, and about the opportunities available to nurses and AHPs in the 九游体育 nationally and locally.
- Tuesday 27 May 14:00-15:00
- Friday 13 June 15:00-16:00
- Thursday 03 July 11:30-12:30
Noclor Programme: Reference Management
In half an hour you will learn what reference management software is, what programmes are freely available, know how to create a bibliography in Refworks and cite references in your work using it.
Friday 11 April 10:00-10:30- FULLY BOOKED- Thursday 15 May 11:00-11:30
- Tuesday 24 June 14:30-15:00
- Monday 21 July 15:30-16:00
Online training sessions available from e-Learning for Healthcare (efh):
elfh is 九游体育 England抯 online learning platform. You can access the 2 virtual courses below with your username and password. Please contact the library if you need assistance.
These modules are designed to help the healthcare workforce (clinical and non-clinical) build confidence to search published literature for articles and evidence relevant to their work, study and research. The modules are short (each taking no more than 20 minutes to complete) and may be 慸ipped into� for reference, or completed to obtain a certificate.
This programme aims to support 九游体育 colleagues with understanding the different methods and tools to carry out critical appraisal of research, through 8 bite-sized modules.
By the end of the programme, learners will be able to: describe the terms 揷ritical appraisal�, 揵ias�, 搃nternal validity� and 揺xternal validity�; distinguish between different types of study designs and their strengths and limitations; assess the appropriateness of methods used to conduct a randomised controlled trial, systematic review, diagnostic study and qualitative study; interpret commonly reported results found in clinical papers; and identify different types of critical appraisal tools and their strengths and limitations.
Journal Clubs
Noclor Journal Club
Join us in the library or online for our bi-monthly Noclor Journal Club for Nurses and AHPs. In these sessions we'll go over an accessible, interesting paper (or something else...) as a group, discussing its strengths and weaknesses (maybe using a checklists) and what it could mean for your practice. At our first meeting we covered .
Upcoming meetings:
Thursday 19/6/25, 10am-11am, in-person in Whittington Health Library and online via Teams
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OT Journal Club
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OT Journal Club
This quarterly OT Journal Club meets in the library to talk about a recent research paper as selected by Occupational Therapy colleagues working across NLFT. If you would like to take part in these fun, discursive sessions then please contact the facilitator, Assistant Librarian Catherine Wardle: [email protected]
Reflective Reading Club
Tailored to nurses approaching revalidation (but open to all), these sessions provide attendees with 3 hours of CPD for their portfolios. Please see our dedicated page for more information.
Last updated14 May 2025