Staff Nurses: Information Literacy Profile

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Staff Nurses Information Literacy Profile

• Sally Dalton
• Jane Surtees
• Doug Knock
• 18th February 2009

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Introduction

• Staff Nurses
• Profile
• ICT skills
• Information needs
• Information literacy
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Staff Nurses a profile

• Registered Nurses
• Range from recently qualified to experienced
• Majority qualify within UK
• Working in hospital
• Across specialties

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ICT skills a profile

• ICT skill is perceived as the competence to
  demonstrate literacy, numeracy and computer
  skills needed to record, enter, store retrieve
  and organize data essential to care delivery
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004) Standards
  of proficiency for pre-registration nursing
  education.
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ICT skills - requirements

• Internal communication 
• Emails / reports
• Electronic Patient Records
• Hospital Information System (HIS)
• Ability to access information relating to patient
  care
• Internet use
• Database searching
• Continuing professional development (CPD)
• E-learning

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ICT skills - barriers

• Varying degree of competency / experience
• Changes in computer technology
• Limited access to computers
• Ward computer sharing
• Alternative access not available 24/7
• Access to training
• Time

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Information needs

• Patient care
• Clinical evidence based decisions
• Drug therapy, other therapy and diagnosis
  questions
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• Improve practice
• Input into changing practice
• Support from managers to search to improve
  practice
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• Lifelong learning/professional development
• Formal courses and study
• Accreditation, professional qualifications
• KSF

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Assessing Staff Nurses IL

• Diversity in user group
• What do they know
• What will they need to know to aid their current
  practice
• Personalised approach
• Can be through e.g. questionnaire or verbal e.g.
  at library induction or training

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Assessing Staff Nurses IL profile contd

• Information Literacy frames
• Competency frame
• Set of competencies/skills
• Learning to Learn frame
• Way of learning where information is internalised
  and constructed by learners

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Strategies to assess IL profile

• Existing user needs and skills survey or
  questionnaire
• Ask counter staff to keep record of requests
• Ask user when attending for training
• Evaluation questionnaires after training
• User satisfaction survey
• Access to information leads to evidence based
  practice
• (RCN The Information Needs of Nurses - Summary
  Report of an RCN Survey 2005)
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Summary

• Diverse group
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• Different levels of ICT competencies
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• Number of barriers in accessing ICT and
  information
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• Wide range of information needs
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• Requires different approaches to assessing and
  supporting information literacy
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References

• Royal College of Nursing (2004) The information
  needs of nurses Summary report of an RCN survey
  http//www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/
  78670/002780.pdf
• Dee, Cheryl (2005) Information seeking behaviour
  of nursing students and clinical nurses
  Implications for health science librarians,
  Journal of the Medical Library Association, Vol
  93 (2), pp 213-222
• Cogdill, Keith, W (2003) Information needs and
  information seeking in primary care a study of
  nurse practitioners, Journal of the Medical
  Library Association, Vol 91 (2), pp 203-215
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References

• Department of Health (2001) The NHS Plan an
  action guide for nurses, midwives and health
  visitors
• Bertulis, Ros and Cheeseborough, Jackie (2008)
  The Royal College of Nursing's information needs
  survey of nurses and health professionals, Health
  Information and Libraries Journal, Vol 25,
  pp186-197
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004) Standards of
  proficiency for pre-registration nursing
  education  http//www.nmc-uk.org/aFrameDisplay.asp
  x?DocumentID328
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