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Uncertainty and information need in nursing.

Beverley French¹

¹Department of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, Greenbank 211, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE, United Kingdom. bfrench1@uclan.ac.uk

Nurse Education Today

|December 7, 2005

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Nurses experience uncertainty in clinical practice, often unaware of their information needs. Recognizing and articulating these needs can encourage evidence-based practice adoption.

Area of Science:

Health Sciences
Information Science
Nursing Practice

Background:

Practitioner uncertainty is linked to practice variation, yet research often overlooks nurses.
Limited understanding exists regarding nurses' information behavior and sources of uncertainty.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the information needs of nurses.
To explore nurses' attributions for uncertainty in clinical decision-making.

Main Methods:

Participant observation of three nurse specialist workgroups.
Analysis of discussions during the development of evidence-based practice recommendations.

Main Results:

Nurses expressed uncertainty in half of the issues discussed.

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Implicit uncertainty was more prevalent than explicitly stated information needs.

Problem recognition, not new solutions, drove information needs.

Only problematic uncertainties with practical solutions were pursued.

Conclusions:

Unrecognized uncertainty exists in clinical practice.
Facilitating the recognition and articulation of information needs may promote evidence-based practice among nurses.