Review Paper
Year: 2023 | Month: June | Volume: 10 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 164-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230619
Librarians' Role in Building Information Literacy Skills of Health Professionals for Evidence-Based Practice
OLUWATOYIN O. OBINYAN
Librarian, Faculty of Law, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The paper looks at evidence-based practice (EBP) and the role of librarians in training health professionals on information literacy skills to fully utilize Evidence-Based information resources to improve health practices and patient care management systems. The paper spelled out the various roles librarians played in inculcating knowledge of Evidence-Based information resources into health professionals. It concluded with the suggestion that librarians be included in the process of the development of information literacy skills of health professionals for the optimization of information resources toward the sustenance of resilience EBP.
Keywords: Evidence-based practice, Information literacy skills, Health practitioners, Librarians.
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