The origin of the study lay in an awareness of the lack of evidence of how and in what way information literacy was experienced by nurses, and the corresponding lack of evidence as to whether information literacy education was effective. Could the experience of information literacy in nursing be described, and could this be used as an evidence-base to develop information literacy education focused on that experience?
Finding the 7 themes in which information literacy operates in nursing and the 6 categories of description which describe, at different levels of complexity, the ways in which information literacy is experienced, was the first stage. This created a framework of educational ‘goals’ to be achieved by a prospective educational intervention.
Finding the 7 themes in which information literacy operates in nursing and the 6 categories of description which describe, at different levels of complexity, the ways in which information literacy is experienced, was the first stage. This created a framework of educational ‘goals’ to be achieved by a prospective educational intervention.