Sunday, 20 May 2007

First assignment by Michelle Moran

I have chosen to concentrate on Community midwives. They are more likely to need information that is easily accessible due to the nature of their jobs. They are less likely to be hospital (office) based and that is why I have chosen the following:-

http://www.rcm.org.uk/news/rss/rss.php - Royal College of Midwives RSS feed

I have chosen this RSS feed as it comes from the official organisation for midwives and would provide up to date specialist information. I would suggest that she would need to use an RSS aggregator for instance Bloglines to make the most use of this.


http://midwifery-info.blogspot.com/ Royal College of Midwives Library blog

Although the blog I have chosen is also RCM, I have chosen this blog because it is a library blog which means it would have references to articles, courses, books etc.

http://www.library.nhs.uk/womenshealth/ - National library for health - womens health

The webpage I have chosen is the womens health page from the National Library for Health because a community midwife would be asked about other womens problems when visiting mothers and this way she could stay up to date with new developments.

I would also encourage the midwife to consider performing a search on Dialog datastar, saving it and setting up alerts on a topic which would be relevant to her.