Nurses’ information use and literature searching skills for evidence based practices

• Main Authors: Majid, Shaheen, Theng, Yin-Leng, Foo, Schubert, Zhang, Xue, Mokhtar, Intan A., Luyt, Brendan, Chang, Yun-Ke
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106458; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24016; http://e-journal.um.edu.my/public/article-view.php?id=4046
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Medical and healthcare literature is growing exponentially, and medical professionals, including nurses, need to possess basic literature searching skills to retrieve information for clinical decision making. This study aims to investigate the use of different medical information sources by nurses a...