Information literacy during entry to practice: Information-seeking behaviors in student nurses and recent nurse graduates

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-213

  Wahoush, Olive ^a   Banfield, Laura ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baccalaureate; Clinical practice; Information literacy; Information seeking behavior; Information sources; Librarian; Library; Recent graduate nurse

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION SEEKING; NURSING STAFF; NURSING STUDENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ONTARIO; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84891344170     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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