Staff nurses: a user profile

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Staff nurses a user profile

• Jackie Cousins, Mary Last
• Louise Wann
• 14th February 2007

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Information needs overview

• Patient care
• Current evidence, including guidelines
• Information for patients and families
• Practice development
• Audit, developing guidelines and care pathways
• Professional development
• Knowledge and Skills Framework competencies
• Post-registration courses
• Professional awareness

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Information Computer Technology (ICT) competencies

• Mixed ability, confidence and attitude
• Prior experience, age etc
• Need for ICT skills
• Patient care and personal development
• Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
• Communication, eg email
• Practical barriers to computer use
• Access
• Time
• Ward culture

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Assessing information literacy

• Paper-based diagnostic tool
• Assessment of ICT competencies inbuilt
• Face to face contact
• Focus groups with staff nurses
• Communication with ward sisters/ administrators
• At inductions

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Information literacy (IL) frames

• Competency frame
• IL as a set of skills and competencies
• Application of knowledge and skills to support
  professional development
• Learning to learn frame
• IL as a way of learning
• Accessing, evaluating and using information for
  clinical problem solving

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Supporting information literacy

• IL competencies required
• Basic computing skills
• Understanding information need
• Awareness of key resources
• Searching skills
• Evaluating information
• Approach
• Provide problem solving tasks
• Offer a flexible training schedule
• Offer refreshers and updates
• Get managers on side!

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In conclusion

• I had no idea how to get on the Internet now
  I can look for things at work and at home ...
  I use it clinically improving my knowledge of
  things I come across daily on the ward.
• Now I can combine/ use another field to broaden
  the search but make it more targeted. Wow! Once
  you know, you can get so much from computers.
• I did not know how to use the system. It has
  proved to be invaluable, especially for my MSc.

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References 1

• Bruce C Edwards S Lupton M (2006) Six frames
  for information literacy education. Italics Vol
  5(1) p1-5
• http//tinyurl.com/ysyg2x
• Estabrooks CA et al (2003) The Internet and
  access to evidence how are nurses positioned?
  Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol 42(1) p73-81
• Hobbs SD (2002) Measuring nurses computer
  competency an analysis of published instruments.
  CIN Computers, Informatics, Nursing Vol 20(2)
  p63-73

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References 2

• Rosenfeld P Salazar-Riera N Vieira D (2002)
  Piloting an information literacy program for
  staff nurses lessons learned. CIN Computers,
  Informatics, Nursing Vol 20(6) p236-241
• Royal College of Nursing (2005) The information
  needs of nurses summary report
• www.rcn.org.uk/publications/pdf/TheInformationNee
  dsOfNurses.pdf
• Williams L Zipperer L (2003) Improving access to
  information librarians and nurses team up for
  patient safety. Nursing Economics Vol 21(4)
  p199-201