Information seeking and retrieval skills of nurses: Nurses readiness for evidence based practice in hospitals of a medical university in Iran

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 570-577

  Farokhzadian, Jamileh ^a   Khajouei, Reza ^b,d   Ahmadian, Leila ^c,d  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evidence based practice; Information literacy; Information seeking behavior; Information storage and retrieval; Iran; Nurses

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; SEARCH ENGINES;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; IRAN;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOOLEAN OPERATOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SEEKING; IRAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; NURSING COMPETENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORK EXPERIENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84937629120     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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