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What Rural Nurses Hope to Find on the Internet
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Robert M Pringle, Jr. MLS

rpringle@wsu.edu
http://nursing.wsu.edu/library/

 

Table 2  Information Desired from the Internet

Current Use of Internet  

(Pre-session)  

   Post-session

Patient Care

Information on care techniques and research  

Current disease and physiology descriptions

Latest procedures for various medical diagnoses

Trends in OB, labor, and delivery  

Psychiatric diagnoses and issues

Drug information, including side effects

Info from nursing point of view on patient care and treatment  

Exercise, diet, wound care  

Case studies  

Journal articles

The same and more

Medications not available in my drug books

Descriptions of diseases unable to find in texts

Journal articles  

More complete information on drugs

Health topics

General Reference

Consumer health info

PubMed, Medline, Docline

Encyclopedia

Info for short articles on health issues  

Info for writing research papers  

Classes for Certification, CE  

Grants for foreign students  

Physician license info  

Information on nursing issues, education issues  

Current research on alternative medicine  

Patient sites, e.g., cancer support group  

Respiratory providers in the US

Asthma info for families  

Vendor/product information  

Journal articles

Nursing law  

Nursing employment,

Continuing education  

Better access to health statistics  

Up to date consumer health info  

Children’s info, such as Bright Futures  

Medline  

Drug information  

Nursing articles  

Disease physiology  

Patient education information  

Professional organizations  

PubMed Central, on complementary medicine

 

 Personal

Career opportunities

Daily news, including financial

Maps  

Looking up addresses

New sites

Library services

Best search engines to use  

Jobs  

Universities and professional organizations  

On-line education