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‘Making a Difference’ to nurse education : the impact on HE libraries

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posted on 2008-02-29, 16:58 authored by Pat Gannon-Leary, Maurice Wakeman, Graham Walton
This paper reports on a study commissioned by the University Health Sciences Librarians group seeking to investigate the impact on HE libraries serving nurses of the new curriculum based upon the government’s ‘Making a Difference’ strategy for nurse education and the responses that libraries are making to it. The main areas of ‘Making a Difference’ likely to be relevant to libraries and information services were identified as increasing access to information and communication technologies (ICT); increasing workforce; more flexibility in approach with part-time study and step-on, step-off study modes; longer placements; lifelong learning; continuing professional development; and evidence-based practice. Questionnaires were e-mailed to library and information service personnel at higher education (HE) institutions offering pre-registration nursing courses. Survey respondents describe how ‘Making a Difference’ has affected their services in relation to curriculum planning; increased student numbers; academic staff and student attitudes; user education; and increased student time on placement. As a result of their responses, recommendations are made including increasing involvement of LIS staff in curriculum development; emphasis on IT skills of student nurses; integration of library user education into nurse education programmes; and liaison between HE and National Health Service (NHS) library staff.

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  • University Academic and Administrative Support

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  • University Library

Citation

GANNON-LEARY, P., WAKEMAN, M. and WALTON, G., 2003. ‘Making a Difference’ to nurse education : the impact on HE libraries. Journal of librarianship and information science, 35 (1), pp. 31-36

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© SAGE

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2003

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This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Journal of librarianship and information science [© SAGE] and is available at: http://lis.sagepub.com/

ISSN

0961-0006

Language

  • en

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