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Abstract
Abstract Nurses, as educators of hospitalized patients and their families, can play a major role in helping consumers discover and use quality online health information. Nurses access online content to build their own knowledge base, to share resources with patients and their families during the hospital stay, and to refer them to resources they might want to read on their own. Richer understanding of nurses’ experiences using the Internet to educate patients can help librarians develop and promote more effective materials. In this qualitative study, a librarian interviewed ten nurses about their experiences providing patient education. Three themes emerged: teaching as a constant process, teaching as personal and individual, and teaching as social.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet is the only professional peer-reviewed journal devoted to locating consumer health information via the Internet. In this journal librarians and health information providers describe programs and services aimed at helping patients and the general public find the health information they need. From the Editor: "Studies have shown that health information is one of the major reasons that people worldwide access the Internet. As the amount of health information on the Web increases exponentially, it becomes critical that librarians-including public and medical librarians-be knowledgeable about what is available online and be able to direct users to reliable, accurate, quality information."