Investigation and Research on Literature Resources Utilization Status of Psychiatric Nurses in a City

Objective: To provide a reference for improving psychiatric nursing staff’s literature utilization and professional knowledge mastery by investigating and studying the current situation of psychiatric nursing staff’s literature utilization. Methods: According to the method of convenient sampling, 156 nurses in the psychiatric department of 5 secondary (including) and above hospitals in Nanning were investigated by a self-designed “questionnaire on the utilization of literature resources for psychiatric nurses”, and the demand for literature resources of nursing staff at all levels was further analyzed. For comparison, 146 psychiatrists were also surveyed. Results: The proportion of literature resources used by nurses with more than 10 years of experience (100%) was higher than that of nurses with 1~5 years of experience (22%), and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01). Compared with psychiatrists, the proportion of nurses who frequently used literature resources was significantly lower than that of physicians (P < 0.01), and the proportion of nurses who did not use literature resources was significantly higher than that of physicians (P < 0.01). 90% of literature resources were obtained from paper books and periodicals, and 10% were obtained from electronic literature (P < 0.01). The purpose of nurses using literature resources to write papers accounted for 53%, accumulate knowledge accounted for 30%, and declare subjects accounted for 17%, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01). Conclu-sion: The demand for literature resources used by senior nurses in the psychiatric department is significantly higher than that of junior nurses with 1~5 years of experience. The nursing staff’s cognition of literature resources is obviously lower than that of doctors. Nurses in the department of psychiatry obtain literature resources mainly through paper books and periodicals, and the main purpose of using literature resources is to write papers and accumulate knowledge.