Skills and key education needed for clinical librarians: an exploratory study from the librarians' perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A clinical librarian is a member of the medical team in many countries. To strengthen this new job, librarians need to acquire professional skills in order to provide information services to medical staff. In this study, we aimed to explor the skills required for the presence of a clinical librarian in the treatment team.

Methods

In this study, we sonducted a qualitative study in which 15 experienced librarians were interviewed in connection with information services. Also, a treatment team was involved in this study using purposive-convenience and snowball sampling methods. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview that continued until the data was saturated; finally the data analysis was performed using thematic analysis.

Results

Out of the

SUBMITTER: Zarghani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8351442 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature