[Enhancing information literacy as a base of developing evidence-based nursing]

Effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. During the recent years, evidence-based nursing [EBN] has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. However, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals itself in finding the best evidence, identifying proper resources, using the best search strategies, and evaluating documents and evidence. In fact, they lack enough competencies in acquiring information literacy. Information literacy means perceiving information organization, the ability of searching and finding the best results from various printed and electronic resources, selecting proper resources and evaluating them properly, and establishing connections with research results. Seeking assistance from medical librarians and information scientists -as developers of educational courses, educators or providers of information in the field- in educational process, helps to train clinical staff with information literacy and turn them into consumers of research articles. The aim of this article was to identify effective elements in evidence-based nursing and the role of information literacy in promotion of it. Also the article offers some information literacy patterns in improving evidence-based nursing used in the world which has been chosen with review method

[Organizational and health care process management with use of information technology]

Hospital with different departments and information processing plans and also professional healthcare staff from different fields, need inter and intra- organizational communication. In addition, treatment method of every patient is unique. Healthcare organizations faced with coordination challenges and they do not apply workflow management technologies yet. To identify current challenges in healthcare, it is necessary that organizational process be separated of care process. Managing organizational process includes identify rules and definite relation of every section with others. In this regard, it seemed that use of work flow management system [WFMS] is the suitable method. Managing care process is done by evidence-based medicine [EBM] and clinical guidelines. Although, organizational process relies on static models of patient care process based on medical knowledge that is evolutes so fast. Health care information systems, such as HIS, have to support of organizational and treatment process separately. Overall, goal of applying information technology [IT] in support of clinical process is not just control of healthcare period, though it is used to reduce workload and promote decision-making. In this article, method of managing workflow for organizational and care process was studied separately and suitable information technology tools for supporting each process with mention of examples has presented