Study of Information literacy of Nurses to Provide Effective Evidence based Care in Bushehr Educational Hospitals in 2018

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.

3 MSc, Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: The use of evidence enables nurses to provide quality of clinical care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of information literacy of nurses to provide efficient evidence-based care in Educational Hospitals in Bushehr in 2018.
 
Methodology: This study is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study that describes the level of information literacy of nurses in. Data were gathered by a self-sufficient questionnaire to measure information literacy skills to provide evidence-based care, which was completed by nurses and analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics through SPSS version 24.
 
Findings: The research findings showed that more than 70 percent of the population surveyed were women and the rest were men. More than 85% of nurses had a bachelor's degree and 58.8% did not use a hospital library. The information literacy of nurses Educational Hospitals in Bushehr in2018 was with an average of 94.38 that is lower than the average level. Among the 5 standards of information literacy, the highest average was related to information exchange and dissemination skills and the lowest average was related to information organization skills.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, nurses' information literacy in all skills to provide evidence-based care were below average. Therefore, it is suggested that some solutions such as theoretical and practical learning be taken to improve all information literacy skills in order to make evidence based decisions in nursing care.

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Digital and Smart Libraries Researches
Volume 6, Issue 4
February 2020
Pages 25-40

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  • Receive Date: 20 August 2020
  • Revise Date: 18 December 2020
  • Accept Date: 05 March 2021
  • First Publish Date: 05 March 2021

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