Web-based Information Service for Nurses Engaged in Continuing Professional Education in Ireland

1. Web-based Information Service for Nurses Engaged in Continuing Professional Education in Ireland www.nurse2nurse.ie Presented by: Muriel Haire Executive Librarian & Web Administrator Irish Nurses Organisation, Dublin

2. Background - Irish Nurses Organisation • Irish Nurses Organisation is Ireland’s largest Trade Union for nurse & midwives • Membership of 30,000 • INO is wholly owned by its members • Membership: Local Branch and Special Interest Groups • Executive Council of 26 Members • INO Administrative Staff – 40

3. INO Library & Information Service • Opened in 1997 • Goals: • To be Ireland’s most comprehensive library service for nurses • To provide a high quality library service to all INO Members irrespective of their geographic location • Collection: • 6,000 books,reports; 120 periodicals & 40 e-journals • Datababases: • CINAHL; MEDLINE; British Nursing Index • Fulltext E-Journals • Services: • Interlibrary loans; Literature seaching; training; • Current Awareness Services; Online Access to Library via intranet and internet – www.ino.ie & www.nurse2nurse.ie

4. Year 1999/2000 What electronic services were available to nurses? • Static information pages • Disconnected knowledge base access • Limited electronic retrieval system • Traditional thesaurus based archiving • Predominantly CD-ROM & Intranet based systems • Almost no multimedia content • No access to the library from anywhere at any time

5. Beginnings of www.nurse2nurse.ie • Personal – goal/aspiration • To bring information to nurses in the easiest and most streamlined way as is possible • To help nurses to communicate their information needs amongst each other.

6. Research “Web-based information needs of Irish Nurses Engaged in Contining Professional Education in Ireland” A random sample of 100 nurses from across all the disciplines were surveyed using a postal questionaire

7. Results of Postal Questionnaire: Problems in accessing information What did my exerpience, studies & research show: • No time • Studying & shift working hours • Geographical location • Lack of specialised information • Lack of confidence in using information technology • Lack of Literature searching skills • Lack of up-to-date Research • Lack of a Database of Irish Nursing/Midwifery Research

8. Nurses main reasons for seeking information • (95%) Keeping up todate in my field • (81%) Continuing education • (68%) Seeking information for a particular case or condition or clinical problem

9. Sources nurses use to seek information quickly • (57%) Colleagues at work • (44%) Read journal articles monthly • (32%) Texbooks/Journals in libraries • (26%) Textbooks/Journals on the ward or at home • (22%) A minority read journals weekly

10. Internet Access

11. Internet use distribution

12. Need for Irish Nurses website How often would nurses use an Irish Nursing Website

13. What nurses would want on a Website dedicated to their information needs

14. Nurse2Nurse Launched Nurse2Nurse - Ireland’s first one-stop online information shop totally dedicated to the needs of Irish Nurses & Midwives

15. Functions of nurse2nurse • Freedom of access • anytime • anywhere • Keeps nurses up todate with current nursing research • Promotes coloboration & communication between nurses

16. What has nurse2nurse to offer? • Nurse2nurse has been developed with Nurses & Midwives in mind and has been made as simple as possible to use. • Topic Based (5000 topics) N2N Topics • Nurses can publish their research, reviews or ongoing research projects. • Become Topic Editors • Discussion groups for each topic have been allocated. To allow nurses keep in communication with colleagues undertaking similar research. • Sharing of knowledge with other nurses & midwives.

17. N2N Topics/Thesaurus (5000 Topics) Nursing Databases (Ovid Single Supplier) CINAHL BNI (British Nursing Index) Full-Text Journals Medline Cochrane Libary Full Text Journals (40) On-Line Books (12 core texts) Continuing Education Course Database Virtual Library What’s on Nurse2Nurse?

18. Home Page

19. Home Page

20. N2N Topics Page

21. N2N Fastlinks to Databases/Fulltext Journals

22. Research Methodology Search Results from CINAHL

23. N2N Books

24. Benefits of N2N • Developed for Irish Nurses & Midwives • Simple and easy to use • Searching via topics familiar to nurses • Opportunity to discuss topics of interest with colleagues • Knowledge Sharing of similar research interests, studies, projects. • Irish Nursing/Midwifery Research • Training on N2N/CINAHL searching

25. Membership growth

26. Usage Statistics • Obtained monthly/bimonthly • Numbers of nurses accessing N2N • Membership details showing nurses who are using N2N by name, number etc. • Time nurses are spending searching N2N • Topics Nurses are searching • Databases they are searching • Downloads from fulltext material • Times N2N is heavily used • Numbers of daily registrations

27. Nurse2Nurse in Year 2002 • Dynamic web pages with 1st generation of Browser based products • Open electronic retrieval systems • Traditional thesaurus based archiving (Searching was very much based on the same technology that was available in 90’s CD-ROMS). • Limited Full text linkage • Limited Multimedia Content • Forum/Email based collaboration

28. Nurse2Nurse Year 2005 • Dynamic multi-channel web pages • Intelligent multi-channel knowledge base access • Multi-dimensional thesaurus based archiving • Internet based with offline archiving options • Peer-to-Peer Voice/Video Collaboration • Automated Indexing with intelligent self learning thesaurus software • Offline archiving tools • Integrated Messaging & Personal Information Management

29. N2N Thesaurus - 2005 • Incorporated as Main Navigation Tool • Simplified & localised for an Irish audience • Mesh & CINAHL terms incorporated as synonyms or related terms • Automated/Intelligent mapping of three or more thesauri terms with a text entity • Full reporting environment for management

30. N2N Search Engine Query Validation & Multi-Channel Execution N2NThesaurus Filter Search Term OtherThesaurus Filter External Databases Search Results Retrieval Result Output Result Sorting Free Text Keyword Search

31. Offline Archiving • Why Offline archiving? • N2N one of Europe’s few websites to offer offline archiving • Majority of nurses do not have broadband • Nurses like to have a copy to print • Lack of PC knowledge re file management • Portability • Accessible whenever nurse requires documents

32. N2N Offline Archiving Tool • Simple windows like interface • File system based storage (easy management) • Integrated advanced (intelligent) search capability • Portable Book marking • Integrated Internet & other browsers • Messaging integration • Remote update ability • Multimedia Player Integration

36. N2N Personal Information Manager Beyond Email

37. Personal Information Management • @Nurse/@Midwife email account • Automatic Retrieval of other emails like Yahoo, Hotmail, IOL etc. • Microsoft Outlook compatible calendar and scheduling system • Online Contacts Management • SIM (Mobile phone) Online Backup • Integrated SMS and MMS archiving and dispatch

38. On stop shopping for information? “One-stop shopping is every nurses goal and when it can be provided, the information service providing the information is by far and away the preferred agency of choice for future information pursuits by that nurse” Thank you for your attention “We are not following, we are leading the way to information access for nurses in Europe”

39. CONTACT INFORMATION www.nurse2nurse.ie www.ino.ie Muriel Haire Irish Nurses Organisation E: muriel@ino.ie