Abstract:

In the 21st century the efficiency of work in the field of nursing largely depends on the proper use of information and communication technology in order to identify, find, process, store and communicate essential information. This is imperative for nurses and technicians in order to spend as little time as possible on administrative tasks and to devote most of their time to patients and medical care. In addition, information-literate nurses and technicians can significantly influence patients' health literacy. The subject of this paper is information literacy in the field of nursing since the problem being researched is the study of the extent to which nurses and technicians are information literate. The purpose of this paper is to show the situation related to information literacy of nursing in the Republic of Croatia. Two hypotheses that are being researched are: Information literacy helps nurses to improve the quality of medical care by reducing administration time; and the second one: In order to increase the level of information literacy, it is necessary to introduce new contents into the existing nursing curricula and ensure lifelong learning.

Confirmation of the hypotheses was ensured through the implementation of the research where a questionnaire was distributed and the available body of literature was studied. The paper itself consists of an introductory part in which a brief overview of the area is given as well as an explanation of the basic concepts. Subsequently, the results of the survey and examination of the available literature are presented. The results of the research are shown in the discussion part and definitive conclusions are reached at the end.

Keywords:

Curriculum, information literacy, lifelong learning, nursing.