The most used sources for update in nursing
Keywords:
Critical literature reading, Sources for updating NursesAbstract
Introduction: the continuing nursing education is a need and its quality depends on the information sources consulted.
Objective: to determine the sources of bibliographical consultation for the update in pediatric topics used by the nurses in a pediatric hospital.
Methodology: a descriptive survey with a autoapplied questionnaire in four pediatric hospital was done. The frequency and type of papers consulted to be updated and the most requeriment were explored. Topics lockheed in every source, information about national and inter- national journals in pediatrics, training in critical of papers and authority on redding in English were investigated.
Results: A hundred forty two of the 180 invited nurses took part in the survey. The internet was the source more consulted In the update in advances of disease or drug therapy (37.3 %), new technologies (0.3 %), and educational topics (33.8 %); for administrative and psychosocial topics, (35.9 % and 33.8 %) the source most consulted was the book; and for nursing care in the manuals of procedures (32.4 %). The 90 % of the nurses knew little about the national nursing journals, but 95 % unknown or look for the International nursing journals. 75 % recognized deficiencies in their capacity to search and critique the scientific information. The 95 % of the nurses demonstrated difficulties to manage english.
Conclusions: the principal source for updating in the nursing staff is the Internet web pages. It is necessary to establish programs of training in the search and scientific reading.
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