Library tools at the nurses' station: exploring information-seeking behaviors and needs of nurses in a war veterans nursing home.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Analyze the information-seeking practices and identify the information and education needs of nurses in a war veterans nursing home. Develop an online toolkit for use at the nurses' stations to meet nurses' health information needs.

Methods

Investigators employed mixed methods to determine the health information needs of the participating nurses at the skilled nursing facility using an online questionnaire and in-person observations. Resulting data was compared to determine how nurses' self-reported data corresponded with investigator observations.

Results

Twenty-seven out of a total of thirty-five nurses responded to the online questionnaire. The study principal investigator also observed a total of twelve nurses working across all shifts. The online quest

SUBMITTER: Kouame G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014917 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature