Table 3.
Frequency of nurses’ use of information resources
| Resource |
Tablet PC |
PDA device |
p value b |
|---|---|---|---|
| N a (%) | N (%) | ||
| Google |
82 (61.65) |
51 (38.35) |
0.0072 |
| IV compatibility |
17 (37.78) |
28 (62.22) |
0.1011 |
| Medical diagnoses, reference information |
58 (45.67) |
69 (54.33) |
0.3290 |
| Drug dictionary |
48 (40.68) |
70 (59.33) |
0.0428 |
| In-house resources |
60 (62.50) |
36 (37.50) |
0.0143 |
| Nursing+ email alerts |
58 (59.79) |
39 (40.21) |
0.0537 |
| RNAO best practice guidelines |
51 (63.13) |
45 (46.88) |
0.5403 |
| Laboratory values |
39 (45.88) |
46 (54.12) |
0.4477 |
| Calculator |
29 (40.28) |
43 (59.72) |
0.0990 |
| Nursing+ database search | 40 (57.97) | 29 (42.03) | 0.1854 |
a N’s vary depending on the number of nurses indicating they used the information resource every few days or more often.
bp value from Chi-square test.