How nurses behave online?

Kostagiolas, P.A.; Martzoukou, K.; Intas, G.; Niakas, D.

Abstract

Registered nurses constitute the largest group of healthcare professionals with a rather distinctive and crucial role in healthcare services provision. For keeping up with their professional advances and follow the rapid and multifaceted scientific advances of medical practices they constantly require high quality of information. Internet and the online information resources play an important role towards the satisfaction of continual online information needs of nurses. This paper aims to investigate the online information needs of nurses and their internet seeking behaviour. Moreover, their perceptions for the role of information in nursing profession are studied. A survey informed by the Wilsons macro-model for information seeking behaviour is developed and included 87 registered nurses working at a public hospital. Data analysis involves descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests of correlation and differences between groups.

Citation

KOSTAGIOLAS, P.A., MARTZOUKOU, K., INTAS, G. and NIAKAS, D. 2014. How nurses behave online? Nurses' online information needs and internet seeking behaviour. In Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on advances in social science, management and human behaviour (SMHB 2014), 25-26 October 2014, Zurich, Switzerland. New York: Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED) [online], pages 192-199. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-139

• Conference Name: 2nd International conference on advances in social science, management and human behaviour (SMHB 2014)
• Conference Location: Zurich, Switzerland
• Start Date: Oct 25, 2014
• End Date: Oct 26, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Oct 25, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Oct 25, 2014
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2014
• Deposit Date: Aug 13, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 13, 2015
• Publisher: Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors
• Pages: 192-199
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-139
• Keywords: Information seeking behaviour; Information needs; Information sources; Information seeking barriers; Information effects; Nurses
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1269
• Publisher URL: https://www.seekdl.org/conferences/paper/details/4579.html