The information seeking of on-duty critical care nurses: evidence from participant observation and in-context interviews.
OBJECTIVES: An observational study describes on-duty nurses' informative behaviors from the perspective of library and information science, rather than patient care,. It reveals their information sources, the kinds of information they seek, and their barriers to information acquisition. METHODS: Par...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 145 - 152 |
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University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
Apr2006
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