Friday, a pick from D1 Evidence-based practice 2: a clinical librarian

Clinical librarians as facilitators for an evidence-based nursing practice: clinical librarians in clinical wards. Sylvia Määttä, Gudrun Wallmyr, Maria Bohlin (Sweden)


Maria works as a clinical librarian (CL) in a hospital ward. She attends rounds regularly and is a familiar sight in a ward. Her services include:
- doing searches and putting reports together
- holding seminars in critical appraisals
- "Book a librarian" for face-to-face session
- "Call a librarian" for immediate help
- newsletter by e-mail
- information search request forms on the intranet

At first CL was a bit of an outsider, as she was a new and an unusual person in a ward. Nowadays she is seen as a catalyst: when CL and nurses collaborate, the use of evidence-based information has increased.