How do I access medication resources?
Answer
A pdf of these instructions is available here
Visit the Medications Specialty Guide
Click tile to select resource
Log in using your Stafflink ID
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG DIRECTORY
Watch the user guide and learn how Psychotropic Drug Directory provides advice on the rational use of psychotropics to help multidisciplinary teams confidently and quickly manage clinical scenarios, with over 12,000 key references and covering 150+ psychotropic drugs.
Example of useful links: The “Selecting Drugs, Doses and Preparations” icon takes you to links for “Specific antipsychotic switches” (2.2.1.2), “Antipsychotic dose equivalents” (2.2.1.3), “Switching or discontinuing antidepressants (2.2.7) etc.
Click the ‘Psychotropic Drug Directory’ icon – and you will be taken to this screen
STAHL ONLINE
Stahl’s Prescriber’s Guide contains evidence-based data and clinically informed advice to support prescribers.
Examples of useful sections in drug monographs include “What to do about side effects”, “Dosing tips”, “How to stop” & “Pearls”.
Click the ‘Stahl Online’ icon – and you will be taken to this screen
Enter required drug name in “Search Stahl Online” box, e.g. “aripiprazole”, then scroll down to view chapters of titles that discuss it.
If you click the PDF link at bottom of each title, you will get full access to it.
STOCKLEY’S DRUG INTERACTIONS
Stockley’s Drug Interactions includes concise, accurate, and clinically relevant information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foodstuffs, drinks, pesticides, and drugs of abuse based on published sources including clinical studies, case reports, and systematic reviews.
Click the ‘Stockley’s Drug Interactions’ icon – and you will be taken to this screen
To search ‘Interactions’ – click on the light blue “S” symbol – and you’ll be taken to this page
MAUDSLEY PRESCRIBING GUIDELINES
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines provides succinct coverage of drug treatments of psychiatric conditions, including referenced information & for special patient groups such as children and adolescents, older people and pregnant women.
Click the ‘Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry’ icon – and you will be taken to this screen
This publication is arranged like a book (not a database) – so you need to scroll down the page to view each chapter.
Alternately, you can use the search box to find a specific drug.
When searching, make sure to have the option “This Reference Work” selected – then enter required drug, e.g. risperidone. If you don’t have “This Reference Work” selected you’ll get results from across all Wiley content.
FOR MORE INFORMATION/ASSISTANCE
If you have any questions contact the Library via chat, email HNELHD-Libraries@health.nsw.gov.au or phone us on 403 35075 (Mater branch) or 492 13779 (HILL at JHH)
You can contact a Mental Health Pharmacist by phone: 403 35930 (HNE Mater Mental Health 8.30am–5pm) if you have questions regarding psychotropic drugs
You can contact a Pharmacist at Tamworth Hospital by hone: 676 73702 if you have questions regarding Stockley’s