Information Need And Seeking Behaviour Of Practicing Nurses In Nigeria; The Case Of Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital Ihiala

Abstract This research adopted a survey design which sought information from respondents on the Information needs and seeking behaviour of practising nurses in Nigeria: the case of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Ihiala. The population comprised fifty-two (52) practising nurses in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Ihiala. There was no sampling because the whole population was studied since it is small and manageable. The nominal role of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital was used to derive the population of the study. A questionnaire entitled “Information Seeking Behaviour of Nurses Questionnaire (ISBNQ)” was developed by the researcher, validated by experts and used for data collection. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient was used to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.84. Data were collected and analysed using mean scores. The findings revealed that practising nurses in the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Ihiala need information on education and training, information to improve knowledge in clinical areas, care and management of patient, HIV/AIDS, immunization among others, nurses obtain the needed information mainly through their working colleagues, working colleagues such as nurses and doctors were accepted as the most adequate information source, lack of current materials on nursing and lack of information literacy were the most ranking problems of information needs of nurses. Based on the findings, recommendations include among others that the management of the hospital should provide training, workshops and other current information sources to managers, clinical nurse specialists and doctors since nurses seek information from them

EVALUATION OF THE USE OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SERVICES BY THE STUDENTS’ OF LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF NURSING STUDENTS

ABSTRACT The study was designed and conducted to evaluate the use of university library resources and services by nursing students of Lead City University, Ibadan. Descriptive survey design was use for this study and the population all nursing students was approximately 500 as at the time of this study, 20% of the population (100) was used. Close observation and a structured questionnaire were used with 100% return rate. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency counts and simple percentages). The findings shows that minority (14%) of the respondents don’t use the library on daily basis, among all the library information resources, textbooks command that highest level of patronage, accessibility and user satisfaction followed, reference resources, then newspapers. On the factors that discourages usage of the Library, resources and services, slow internet connection ranked the highest (92%) followed by library closing hours with 84% agreement, then insufficient charging points (82%), epileptic power supply accounted for 72% and lack of book borrowing service (circulation) accounted for 70%. Study however recommend constant and frequent in-house evaluation of the Library resources and services, start operating an open system where users can borrow books, conduciveness of the library environment should be of paramount interest to the library management. Word Count: 203 Key Words: Evaluation, Library, Resources, Services, facilities

Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Surgical patients need prompt and adequate pain relief after surgery. This required surgical nurses’ need to acquire and use information to facilitate pain relief. The ability of surgical nurses’ to seek and use pain management information would enhance patients’ pain relief. Based on this assumption, the study investigated influence of nurses’ information behaviour on surgical patients’ pain relief in teaching hospitals in Port Harcourt. The study adopted survey design. A total sample of 786 drawn from the population of 3854 included 152 surgical nurses, 317 surgical patients, and 317 medication charts of the surgical patients using Krejcie and Morgan table. Multistage sampling technique was applied to select the participants. A validated questionnaire which was partly adapted, and medication charts audit checklist were used for data collection. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients for the constructs ranged from 0.74 to 0.90. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Findings revealed that nurses’ information behaviour components (Adj. R2 = 0.146, (F(2.143) =13.362, p<0.05) had significant positive relative influence on surgical patients’ pain relief. Nurses information behaviour (R2 = 0.144, β = 0.380, p <0.05, significantly influence surgical patients’ pain relief F(1,144) = 24.253, p< 0.05). Findings revealed that surgical nurses’ information behaviour was very good, average weighted mean (M = 3.46). Further findings showed that surgical patients’ level of pain relief was very high (M = 1.75). The study concludes that nurses’ information behaviour improved surgical patients’ pain relief in teaching hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The study recommends that surgical nurses should improve on their information seeking and use behaviour to maintain pain relief among surgical patients. Keywords: Nurses’ information seeking, Nurses’ information use, Pain relief, Surgical patients’ pain relief, Teaching Hospitals DOI: 10.7176/IKM/11-3-03 Publication date: April 30th 202

INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA-PAKISTAN: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Purpose of the study The main theme of this study is to explores the information literacy skills of the law practitioners in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan under the heading “Information Literacy Skills of Legal Practitioners in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan: An Empirical Study.” Research Method and Procedure To conduct this quantitative study, the simple random sample approach is used. An adapted questionnaire is distributed among 254 lawyers of Dera Ismail Khan through personal visits and electronic means. The data collected is analyzed through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software. Delimitations of the study: The study is delimited to the southern district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Dera Ismael Khan. Key Findings: Most of the lawyers of District Dera Ismail khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can recognize and understand the needed information. A large number of lawyers are capable of presenting information in both written and electronic forms. They are not comfortable with different legal databases and using various searching and keyword techniques. They have less knowledge of Boolean operator for locating of online information. Conclusion and Recommendations Efforts should be made to arrange refresher courses and training workshops on utilization of different legal databases and different search techniques for retrieval of information sources. This practice will enhance the information literacy skills of lawyers that will ultimately result in to a better legal system in the Pakistan. . Practical implication(s): The findings of the study will motivate the policy makers, authorities of legal forums to restructure the information literacy programs to fulfil the Lawyers’ information needs. Contribution to the knowledge: No significant work has been done on the lawyers\u27 Information literacy skills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. It will bring a clear picture of information literacy skills of law practitioners and addressed the problems faced by them during seeking process

Terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten internetin tiedonhaku infektioepidemioiden seurannassa

The aim of this study was to analyze online information seeking by healthcare professionals (HCPs) in order to both evaluate its extent and assess whether it can be used in clinically relevant settings, such as epidemiology. HCPs need reliable medical information to be used in daily clinical work. Physician’s Databases (PD) serve as online medical sources that are available throughout the Finnish healthcare system and provide medical information for HCPs performing the searches. Every query is included in the log files of PD. To analyze information needs among various HCPs, the queries in different healthcare sectors (primary care, specialized care, pharmacies, and private care) showed the known characteristics of each sector in terms of the time of day, weekdays, weekends, seasons, and quantities of HCPs working in a specific healthcare sector nationwide. To detect infectious disease epidemics, similar patterns were found between the diagnoses and queries of Lyme borreliosis (LB) performed by both HCPs and the general public. The media publications on LB only occasionally related to queries. HCPs’ queries on oseltamivir and influenza showed similar patterns annually compared with the diagnoses and laboratory reports on influenza. When detecting influenza epidemics, the queries on oseltamivir preceded influenza diagnoses by -0.80 weeks (95% CI: -1.0, 0.0, p = 0.000) with high correlation (tau = 0.943); and the queries on influenza preceded oseltamivir queries by -0.80 weeks (95% CI: -1.2, 0.0, p = 0.015) with high correlation (tau = 0.738) and influenza diagnoses by -1.60 weeks (95% CI: -1.8, -1.0, p = 0.000) with high correlation (tau = 0.894). Assessing the log files of PD, and comparing them with epidemiological registers on infectious diseases, heralds a new approach for using HCPs’ online queries from real-time databases as an additional source of information for disease surveillance when detecting epidemics.Väitöskirjan tavoitteena oli tutkia terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten tiedonhakua ja sen yhteyttä infektioepidemioihin. Duodecimin Terveysportin Lääkärin tietokannat on internetpohjainen tietolähde terveydenhuollon ammattilaisille, jotka hakevat luotettavaa lääketieteellistä tietoa potilaiden hoitoon. Jokainen haku tallentuu tietokannan lokitietoihin. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli arvioida sekä tiedonhaun laajuutta että sen hyödynnettävyyttä esimerkiksi infektioepidemiologiassa. Tutkimuksessa (1) arvioitiin terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten tiedontarvetta tutkimalla eri terveydenhuollon sektoreilla (perusterveydenhuolto, erikoissairaanhoito, apteekit ja yksityissektori) tapahtuvaa tiedonhakua Lääkärin tietokannoista. Niin haun vuorokaudenajan, viikonpäivän, vuodenajan kuin sektorilla työskentelevien ammattilaisten määrän todettiin olevan ominaisia kullekin sektorille. Tämän jälkeen (2) verrattiin Lääkärin tietokantojen Lymen borrelioosi -hakuja ja Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitoksen rekisterin borrelioosidiagnooseja toisiinsa. Niillä havaittiin ajallinen yhteys: haut ja diagnoosit ilmenevät samaan aikaan. Tämä tarkoittaa, että ammattilaisten hakuja voitaisiin hyödyntää epidemioiden seurannassa perinteisten rekistereiden rinnalla. Tutkimuksessa myös (3) verrattiin ammattilaisten Lääkärin tietokantojen Lymen borrelioosi -hakuja ja maallikoiden Terveyskirjaston Lymen borrelioosi -hakuja toisiinsa. Niissäkin toteutui samanlainen ajallinen yhteys, joka noudatti perinteistä infektioepidemiologista rekisteriä borrelioosista. Suurimpien suomalaisten medioiden verkkosivuilta kerättiin borrelioosiin liittyvät mediajulkaisut, ja ne olivat yhteydessä Terveyskirjaston Lymen borrelioosi -hakuihin vain ajoittain. Borrelioosin medianäkyvyys saattaa kuitenkin vaikuttaa sekä ammattilaisten että maallikoiden internetin tiedonhakuun. Lopuksi (4) tutkittiin terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten Lääkärin tietokantojen influenssahakuja ja Duodecimin lääketietokannan oseltamiviirihakuja. Niillä todettiin yhteys Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitoksen influenssadiagnooseihin ja laboratoriolöydöksiin. Tämä tarkoittaa, että kun oseltamiviirihaut edelsivät ajallisesti influenssadiagnooseja ja kun influenssahaut edelsivät sekä oseltamiviirihakuja että influenssadiagnooseja, niin ammattilaisten hakuja tietokannasta voitaisiin hyödyntää influenssaepidemioiden seurannassa. Lokitietojen vertaaminen infektioepidemiologisiin rekistereihin tuo uutta tietoa terveydenhuollon ammattilaisten internetin tiedonhausta. Hakutietoa on mahdollista hyödyntää perinteisten rekistereiden rinnalla infektiotautien ennakoinnissa ja seurannassa

A Survey on Information Seeking Behaviour of Nurses at a Private Hospital in Greece

The paper deals with the investigation of the information seeking behavior of nursing staff of a private hospital in Greece. It is assumed that the information seeking behaviour has an effect on the nursing care and practices. A survey was conducted through a specially designed questionnaire distributed within 2013 to registered nurses of a major private Hospital in Athens. Nonparametric descriptive statistics have been carried out through SPSS version 20. The information needs of nurses are related to their work role and include information for nursing interventions and hospital infections control. The online scientific content is considered as the main source of information, while lack of time is considered as the main obstacle when seeking information. Regarding the effects of information, nurses believe that information quality and availability influences nursing care as well as nursing practices. Development of appropriate information services and information literacy skills for nurses is required

Library Instruction and Information Literacy 2014

Purpose: This paper aims to provide an introductory overview and selected annotated bibliography of recent resources on library instruction and information literacy across all library types. Design/methodology/approach: It introduces and annotates English-language periodical articles, monographs, dissertations and other materials on library instruction and information literacy published in 2014. Findings: It provides information about each source, discusses the characteristics of current scholarship and highlights sources that contain unique or significant scholarly contributions. Originality/value: The information may be used by librarians and interested parties as a quick reference to literature on library instruction and information literacy