Ordu Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Zeynep TATLI, Aydanur AYDIN, Perihan ŞİMŞEK, Merve ÖZDEMİR, Sefa GÖLBAŞI, Semra KARACAN, Ayla GÜRSOY, Abdülkadir GÜNDÜZ

Konular:Hemşirelik

Anahtar Kelimeler:Nurse,Nursing students,Information,Education,Information access.

Özet: Objective: The developments in information technology increase the accessibility of information and speed upsharing. In this research, it was aimed to determine the use of information technology for nursing student and nurses to access information. Method: The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 172 nursing students and 102 nurses working in a university hospital. The data were collected by the questionnaire developed by the researchers and the "Scale of Utilizing Information Technologies". Data were analyzed using the (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 20.0 program. Results: The average age of persons included study was 26.8±8.8. 96.1% of respondents said that they had a smartphone and 91.2% said that they use thephone as a means of accessing information. It was determined that the average scores of the nursing student were higher than the nurses in all the subscales of the utilization of information technologies. It was found that this difference was statistically significant in getting information, self-expression,  game entertainment (p <0.0001), communication (p = 0.004) and not significant in there search and analysis sub-dimension (p = 0.400). Conclusion: Smartphones is the information technology products, which is most commonly used by nurses and nursing students to obtain information. The use of information technology for communication and getting informatio are more common among nursing students than nurses.

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