Information behaviour in nursing specialities: a case study of midwifery

David Bawden

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A study of the information needs and information-seeking behaviour within nursing specialities, primarily midwifery with a smaller-scale study of psychiatric nursing for comparison, is presented. The study, mainly conducted by semi-structured interviews with practitioners and providers, shows midwives to be a particularly information-conscious set of practitioners, needing a wide variety of information, and having both general and specialised resources available; psychiatric nurses appear to be much less information-conscious, and less well served in information terms. Particular issues which emerge include: promotion of specialist services, gatekeeper roles; library services, especially for continuing education and for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary needs; need for integrated and convenient services; information networking and nursing informatics, and terminology development.

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