Open AccessHealth information needs of professional nurses required at the point of care
Author(s) -
Esmeralda Ricks,
Wilma ten Ham
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v38i1.1432
Subject(s) - workload , information needs , nursing , descriptive statistics , medicine , descriptive research , sample (material) , simple random sample , point of care , population , health care , medical education , computer science , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , environmental health , chromatography , world wide web , economic growth , operating system , economics
Professional nurses work in dynamic environments and need to keep up to date with relevant information for practice in nursing to render quality patient care. Keeping up to date with current information is often challenging because of heavy workload, diverse information needs and the accessibility of the required information at the point of care.