Assessment of information seeking behavior of nurses in academic hospitals of Yazd

Nurses need to have extended information in their profession and their decision may have a vital slue for patients. Up to date information may lead to easier decision making for them. Due to the fact that how nurses get their information from sources and what’s the barrier to access to the sources and evidence، we decided to study the information-seeking behaviors of nurses in educational hospital in Yazd، Iran. Research community of this analytic study was consisted of 320 nurses that have been worked in Yazd Academic Hospital with at least one year history of professional working. Data gathering was done via a questionnaire that its validity was approved with Cronbach''s Alpha 0/78، it included sources of information، goals of research، Problems of access to information and information needs. Data analyzed by SPSS 17 software and tested with chi-squire test. Our study showed that most of nurses had license certificate and was female with mean working history of 9. 81±7. 29 year. The most important informational needs knew about new developments in nursing filed. Time limitation was the important preventing factors in 74. 8% of nurses. For information searching the internet was the most used source (public search engines) for updating their knowledge. Nurses know that information is important in their occupational. Availability to new and up to date information in nursing filed needs some training and having some special skills. Upon to our study we suggest that hospital managers must take some special time for nurses training and research activities.