What information is used during wound treatment?

During treatment of wounds, nursing professionals need to consult several information to decide what to do and need to record the information produced. This paper reports an investigation into the information needs of nursing professionals during the treatment of wounds. A 14-questions questionnaire...

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Autores: Silva, Paulo Vanzolini Moura da, Silva, Bruno Santana da
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Repositorio:Revista Informação na Sociedade Contemporânea
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufrn.br:article/23593
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufrn.br/informacao/article/view/23593
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Information needs
Health information
Information storage and retrieval systems
Information sources
Necessidades de informação
Informação em saúde
Sistemas de informação
Fontes de Informação
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Sumario:During treatment of wounds, nursing professionals need to consult several information to decide what to do and need to record the information produced. This paper reports an investigation into the information needs of nursing professionals during the treatment of wounds. A 14-questions questionnaire was applied to 50 participants in a Larval Therapy course, a type of wound treatment. The questionnaire addressed the participants’ profile and their information needs. After the individual descriptive analysis of the collected data in each question, possible relationships among some answers were analyzed to verify the influence of the participants’ profile on their information need. Important information was identified about patient, his wounds, sources of information used, ways of recording information produced during the wound care, and about the kinds of informational support software could offer to wound care. A better understanding of information needs during wound treatment can help to improve informational support to health professionals.