Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study
Increased demand for medical or healthcare services has meant that nurses are to take on a more proactive and independent role intending to patients, providing basic treatment and deciding relevant clinical practice. This, in turn, translates into the need for nurses to be able to translate research...
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| author | Foo, Schubert Theng, Yin-Leng Mokhtar, Intan Azura Majid, Shaheen Zhang, Xue Chang, Yun-Ke Luyt, Brendan |
| author2 | Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information |
| author_facet | Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Foo, Schubert Theng, Yin-Leng Mokhtar, Intan Azura Majid, Shaheen Zhang, Xue Chang, Yun-Ke Luyt, Brendan |
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| description | Increased demand for medical or healthcare services has meant that nurses are to take on a more proactive and independent role intending to patients, providing basic treatment and deciding relevant clinical practice. This, in turn, translates into the need for nurses to be able to translate research and evidence into their practice more efficiently and effectively. Hence, competencies in looking for, evaluating, synthesizing and applying documented information or evidence-based practice becomes crucial. This article presents a quantitative study that involved more than 300 nurses from a large government hospital in Singapore. A self-reporting questionnaire was developed to collect data pertaining to evidence-based practice and activities, including those that demonstrate information literacy competencies. Results seem to suggest that the nurses preferred to use print and human information sources compared to electronic information sources; were not proactive in looking up research or evidence-based information and, instead, preferred such information to be fed to them; and that they perceived they lacked the ability to evaluate research papers or effectively search electronic information related to nursing or evidence-based practice. It was also found that more than 80% of the nurses have not had any training related to evidence-based practice. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1007312020-03-07T12:15:51Z Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study Foo, Schubert Theng, Yin-Leng Mokhtar, Intan Azura Majid, Shaheen Zhang, Xue Chang, Yun-Ke Luyt, Brendan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Business::Information technology::Health services administration Increased demand for medical or healthcare services has meant that nurses are to take on a more proactive and independent role intending to patients, providing basic treatment and deciding relevant clinical practice. This, in turn, translates into the need for nurses to be able to translate research and evidence into their practice more efficiently and effectively. Hence, competencies in looking for, evaluating, synthesizing and applying documented information or evidence-based practice becomes crucial. This article presents a quantitative study that involved more than 300 nurses from a large government hospital in Singapore. A self-reporting questionnaire was developed to collect data pertaining to evidence-based practice and activities, including those that demonstrate information literacy competencies. Results seem to suggest that the nurses preferred to use print and human information sources compared to electronic information sources; were not proactive in looking up research or evidence-based information and, instead, preferred such information to be fed to them; and that they perceived they lacked the ability to evaluate research papers or effectively search electronic information related to nursing or evidence-based practice. It was also found that more than 80% of the nurses have not had any training related to evidence-based practice. 2013-10-07T07:46:34Z 2019-12-06T20:27:20Z 2013-10-07T07:46:34Z 2019-12-06T20:27:20Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Mokhtar, I. A., Majid, S., Foo, S., Zhang, X., Theng, Y.-L., Chang, Y. K. et al. (2012). Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study. Health informatics journal, 18(1), 12-25. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100731 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16303 10.1177/1460458211434753 en Health informatics journal |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business::Information technology::Health services administration Foo, Schubert Theng, Yin-Leng Mokhtar, Intan Azura Majid, Shaheen Zhang, Xue Chang, Yun-Ke Luyt, Brendan Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title | Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title_full | Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title_fullStr | Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title_short | Evidence-based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in Singapore : an exploratory case study |
| title_sort | evidence based practice and related information literacy skills of nurses in singapore an exploratory case study |
| topic | DRNTU::Business::Information technology::Health services administration |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100731 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16303 |
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