Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Friday, July 08, 2005

Information Seeking By Nurses

I recently read three articles on nursing information seeking behavior, all of which indicated that additional training of nurses in using databases is important.   As a librarian, the one I found most motivating was, Dee, Cheryl & Stanley, Ellen E. Information-seeking behavior of nursing students and clinical nurses: implications for health sciences librarians. Journal of the Medical Library Association. Chicago: Apr 2005. Vol. 93, Iss. 2; p. 213.   Even educated nursing professionals are neglecting to use controlled vocabularies/subject headings to focus their search.   As a result, they are having to sift through irrelevant information.   This discovery should change the emphasis in my teaching database skills.
-D.D.

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