Journal of advanced nursing
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This paper is a report a study of critical care nurses' experiences of grief and their coping mechanisms when a patient dies. ⋯ There are many predisposing factors and circumstantial occurrences that shape both the nature of care of the dying and subsequent grief. Repeated exposure to death and grief may lead to occupational stress, and ultimately burn out. Emotional disengagement from caring for the dying may have an impact on the quality of care for both the dying patient and their family.
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This paper is a report of a study conducted to assess nurses' information-seeking strategies and problems encountered when seeking clinical guidelines on the Internet, and to investigate the criteria they apply when evaluating the guidelines and the websites communicating the guidelines. ⋯ Nurses appeared to rely predominantly on tacit knowledge during the search process and while evaluating the retrieved guidelines. This is dangerous because nurses' reliance on inaccurate information might result in inadequate behaviour. It is therefore essential to expand nurses' current information base by tailoring both navigation structure and the guideline communication to dovetail with nurses' tacit knowledge.