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Online Searching for On-Duty Nurses

Online Searching for On-Duty Nurses. Elizabeth Bair LIS 560 Spring 2007. Who are nurses?. Mostly female, with a male minority Average age of 46.8 years old Mostly work part time Most nurses work in hospitals (56.2%) Nurses have a variety of educational degrees.

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Online Searching for On-Duty Nurses

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  1. Online Searching for On-Duty Nurses Elizabeth Bair LIS 560 Spring 2007

  2. Who are nurses? • Mostly female, with a male minority • Average age of 46.8 years old • Mostly work part time • Most nurses work in hospitals (56.2%) • Nurses have a variety of educational degrees Health Resources and Services Administration. (n.d.) The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. Retrieved May 6, 2007, from http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/rnsurvey04/

  3. What do nurses need? • Patient-care based information needs • Medications • Procedures • Specific patient conditions • General nursing information needs • Up-to date research on treatments • General condition information • Patient-care based needs favored Blythe, J., & Royle, J. (1993). Assessing nurses’ information needs in the work environment [Electronic version]. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 81(4), 433-435.

  4. How do nurses fulfill their needs? • Oral and written sources • Consultations with doctors • Patient records • Monitor printouts • Drug Reference manuals • They are quick and easily accessible Concoran-Perry, S., & Graves, J. (1990). Supplemental-Information-Seeking Behavior of Cardiovascular Nurses. Research in Nursing and Health, 13, 119-127.

  5. Evidence Based Practice • Current trend in nursing • Must stay up-to date on research • Increases treatment effectiveness

  6. What would be useful? • Nurses realize the benefits of a evidence-based practice • Concise, accurate information source on-ward • Technology can fill this need

  7. Barriers to Information Seeking • Lack of Time • Confusing Search Systems • Lack of Information Skills Pettengill, M. M., Gillies, D. A., & Clark, C. C. (1994). Factors encouraging and discouraging the use of nursing research findings. IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 26(2), 143-147.

  8. Module 1: Searching Online Strategies to help you find what you need

  9. Beginning Activity • Pick a topic • Current treatments for childhood leukemia • Current research on treating heart attacks • Drug therapy for Multiple Sclerosis • Search CINAHL for articles about your topic for 5 minutes • Note how many relevant results you found • Were there too few or too many? • Was it hard to find exactly what you were looking for?

  10. Why Learn How to Search? • Gain access to up-to-date nursing research • Institute a more evidence-based practice • Provide better care for patients • Cut down on time spent searching • Produce fewer, more relevant results

  11. Searching & Indexes • Search Engines = Quick Access to Electronic Index • Use specific vocabulary terms to mean many different things • Activity: Think about or try searching a book without using its index

  12. Subject Searching • Another way to use the index • Searches for articles attached to a subject • Often found in different spots • Found in CINAHL under Search tools

  13. Synonyms • Not all indexes use the same terms • Synonym searching can increase or refine results • Activity: Brainstorm all of the synonyms you can think of for your earlier search

  14. Boolean Searching • How words can be combined in a search • AND – combines the two or more words in the search (leukemia AND pediatric) • OR – searches for any word in the search (heart disease OR heart attack) • NOT – searches for one term excluding results with the other (cancer NOT liver) • “Exact Phrase” – searches for the exact phrase within quotes

  15. Ending Activity • Search CINAHL for the same topic you used previously for 5 more minutes • Use subject searches, synonyms & boolean searches • Did you find more relevant articles? • Was the search easier to use? • Discuss your results on the Discussion Board

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