Table 2.

Nurses’ Rationales for Searching Patient Educational Materials in Electronic Resources

Professional [76] (M = 42)	Personal [65] (M = 36)	Technological [26] (M = 14.5)	Organizational [12] (M = 7)
Patient request	Experience and knowledge	Bookmarked	Routine procedure
[40] ( M=53)	[14] (M = 21.5)	[8] (M = 31)	[11] (M =92)
Request of colleague	Perceived time requirements	Ease and accessibility of information	Use not allowed
[11] (M = 14.5)	[14] (M = 21.5)	[8] (M = 31)	[1] (M = 8)
Building teaching material	Familiarity and confidence	System features
[8] ( M =10.5)	[12] (M 21.5)	[5] (M = 19)
Request family member	Perceived availability	Hyperlinked documents
[7] (M = 9)	[11] (M = 17)	[3] (M = 11.5)
Professional development (personal)	Perceived variety and amount of information	Time requirements
[7] (M = 9)	[11] (M =17)	[2] (M = 7.7)
Professional development (staff)	Information suitable for patient use
[2] (M= 2.6)	[9] ( M = 14)
Routine teaching procedure	Positive feeling (e.g., comfort, etc.)
[1] (M=1)	[5] (M= 7.7)

[n] = Number of data units that describe the rationale.

(M) = Mean.