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Online Searching for
On-Duty Nurses
Elizabeth Bair
LIS 560
Spring 2007
Who are nurses?
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Mostly female, with a male
minority
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Average age of 46.8 years
old
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Mostly work part time
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Most nurses work in
hospitals (56.2%)
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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/
What do nurses need?
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Patient-care based information needs
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General nursing information needs
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Medications
Procedures
Specific patient conditions
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.
How do nurses fulfill their needs?
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Oral and written sources
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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.
Evidence Based Practice
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Current trend in nursing
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Must stay up-to date on
research
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Increases treatment
effectiveness
What would be useful?
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Nurses realize the benefits of a evidencebased practice
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Concise, accurate information source onward
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Technology can fill this need
Barriers to Information Seeking
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Lack of Time
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Confusing Search
Systems
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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.
Module 1:
Searching Online
Strategies to
help you find
what you need
Beginning Activity
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Pick a topic
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Current treatments for childhood leukemia
Current research on treating heart attacks
Drug therapy for Multiple Sclerosis
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Search CINAHL for articles about your topic for 5
minutes
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Note how many relevant results you found
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Were there too few or too many?
Was it hard to find exactly what you were looking for?
Why Learn How to Search?
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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
Searching & Indexes
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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
Subject Searching
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Another way to use the index
Searches for articles attached to a subject
Often found in different spots
Found in CINAHL under Search tools
Synonyms
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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
Boolean Searching
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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
Ending Activity
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Search CINAHL for the same topic you used
previously for 5 more minutes
Use subject searches, synonyms & boolean
searches
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Did you find more relevant articles?
Was the search easier to use?
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Discuss your results on the Discussion Board
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