Needs assessment of nurse researchers through a research lifecycle framework.

Objective: Health sciences librarian roles are evolving to better meet the needs of faculty. This study explores nursing faculty needs at the University of British Columbia through the research lifecycle framework of planning, conducting, disseminating, and assessing the impact of their research. Methods: A mixed methods survey study with Likert scale, multiple-choice, or ordinal ranking-scale questions and six open-response questions was conducted. The format was a web-based Qualtrics survey; participants had approximately three weeks to respond. Results: Nursing faculty identified the dissemination phase as benefiting most from library support prioritizing reference management and archiving research data as the top needs in that phase. Assessing impact skills such as citation analysis and Altmetrics training was ranked second. The Planning phase was ranked third with systematic review and literature review support most needed. The Conducting phase was identified as the phase where they needed the least support. Conclusion: Understanding the needs of researchers and enhancing scholar productivity is vital to offering responsive library research services. Across the research lifecycle, nursing faculty identified reference management, data management, metrics evaluation, systematic reviews, and literature reviews as the key areas for which they need support.

Canadian academic nursing librarians: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on librarianship practice.

Objective: This study explored changes in the practice of academic nursing librarianship at large Canadian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on academic nursing librarians' work with nursing graduate students and nursing faculty. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven academic nursing librarians about changes to their librarianship practice during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Interviews were conducted between 20 April and 14 May 2021, discussing experiences during the study period March 2020 to May 2021. Results: Canadian academic nursing librarians experienced (i) the adoption of the completely virtual library ; (ii) changes to the type and prevalence of online instruction ; (iii) the discovery that online consultations work well ; (iv) the discovery of the extent to which relationships are valued and intentional ; (v) an increase in requests for instruction and co-authorship of knowledge syntheses; and (vi) the benefits and challenges of remote work. Discussion: Experiences were divergent, shaped in part by the institutions' pre-pandemic practices. Additionally, some participants reported no impact of the pandemic on their research, instruction, and collaborations with nursing graduate students and nursing faculty. In particular, institutions already offering online masters programs in nursing reported less significant disruption. The temporary transition to the completely virtual library revealed benefits of online consultations, opportunities for reaching more students through asynchronous learning, the importance of relationships to nursing liaison work, and value of the flexibility to work remotely . Conclusion: The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to evolve. With a return to in-person classes at Canadian universities, there is much to learn from the experiences during the first 18 months of the pandemic.

News Article Portrayal of Virtual Care for Health Care Delivery in the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objectives: The onset of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic resulted in rapid implementation of virtual care solutions at an unprecedented pace. The news media, as a trusted source for many Canadians, plays a vital role during emergencies by reporting on changes in health care protocols, policies, and technologies. This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis of Canadian news articles between February and August of 2020 to identify critical themes with respect to virtual care. Methods: A full-text search of the database Canadian Newsstream resulted in 1542 articles (708 duplicates), of which 294 articles were included in the final analysis. Inductive analysis was used to generate themes and identify voices, contradictions, and tensions in the articles. Results: Analysis generated four themes: coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a catalyst for virtual care, safety and protection, economic impacts, and telehealth as a model of care. Media portrayals represented some voices (e.g., physicians) while limiting others (e.g., patients), reflected some contradictory messaging with respect to safety and protection, and raised key issues and concerns about virtual health care delivery during the first 7 months of COVID-19. Conclusions: Our findings of successful and rapid uptake, uses and concerns around funding, and privacy and virtual care adoption reported in the news media can be used to inform longer term implementation and sustainability. Policy makers could benefit from crafting messages that balance information and reassurance. Public/patient perspectives, which were largely missing from news media, are needed to gauge receptivity and sustainability.