TY - JOUR AU - Shaheen, Majid AU - Foo, Schubert AU - Zhang, Xue AU - A Mokhtar, Intan AU - Luyt, Brendan AU - Chang, Yun-Ke AU - Theng, Yin-Leng AU - Majid, Shaheen AU - Foo, Schubert AU - Zhang, Xue AU - Mokhtar, Intan A AU - Luyt, Brendan AU - Chang, Yun-Ke AU - Theng, Yin-Leng PY - 2017/03/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Nurses’ information use and literature searching skills for evidence based practices JF - Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science JA - MJLIS VL - 18 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://mjes.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS/article/view/1837 SP - AB - <p>Majid, S., Foo, S., Zhang, X., Mokhtar, I. A., Luyt, B., Chang, Y. K., &amp; Theng, Y. L. (2013). Nurses’ information use and literature searching skills for evidence based practices.&nbsp;<em>Malaysian Journal of Library &amp; Information Science,&nbsp;Vol.18, no. 1: 67-78.&nbsp;</em></p><p><em>Medical and healthcare literature is growing exponentially, and medical professionals, including&nbsp;</em><em>nurses, need to possess basic literature searching skills to retrieve information for clinical decision&nbsp;</em><em>making. This study aims to investigate the use of different medical information sources by nurses&nbsp;</em><em>and their literature searching skills. Questionnaire survey was adopted for data collection and a total&nbsp;</em><em>of 1,486 nurses from two public hospitals in Singapore participated in this study. It was found that&nbsp;</em><em>human and printed sources were used more frequently by the nurse, as compared to online sources.&nbsp;</em><em>For literature searching, nurses used basic search features, and only less than one-quarter of them</em><br><em>were familiar with Boolean and proximity operators. The study suggests that hospital libraries&nbsp;</em><em>should play an active role in improving literature searching skills of nurses which may subsequently&nbsp;</em><em>result in increased use of electronic information sources, where more updated clinical research&nbsp;</em><em>information may be found.</em></p><p><em>&nbsp;</em></p> ER -