INFORMATION-SEEKING BY NURSES INVOLVED IN AN OCCUPATIONAL CHANGE.
Contributors: Florida State University.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Education, Vocational.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: A naturalistic inquiry was carried out using ethnographic techniques to study the information-seeking process of nurses who had changed their positions within the previous year.

Interviews were conducted with twenty-seven nurses to help understand the activities and events that took place as they carried out information-seeking activities in a large suburban university-affiliated hospital. Nurses sought information to help them understand what was expected of them during the application procedures, as well as how they would be personally and professionally affected by the change. Nurses in the study found information about job priorities and career development coming from personal sources most helpful and valuable as they followed the procedures and their interests in the hospital where the position change occurred.

Six questions provided initial direction to the study, and further analysis led to the discovery of hypotheses and questions for further research. The process of information-seeking was found to be composed of three parts--context, professional aspects, and information. These parts, or components, offered opportunities for further study of variables within themselves, as well as between each other. Conclusions led to the development of a framework from which information-seeking may be studied in nurses who are, or considering, changing positions.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-03, Section: A, page: 0776.

Thesis (ED.D.)--THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1993.

School code: 0071.