INST 352 Lecture 10: INST352 Lecture 10: Helping a Patient
10 Feb 2019
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Although our usual focus in information behavior research is the individual, it is important to recognize that much information seeking takes place in groups, and that sharing of information with others is very common. In this scenario, we consider the many exchanges that might take place among members of a health care team in a hospital. Because the information seeking plays out over several days and involves many individuals, it is possible only to sketch out some of the dozens of actions and interactions that are likely to occur. Also for simplicity"s sake, we will consider only a single patient, while recognizing that a team would certainly be caring for multiple patients at any one time, each at different stages of crisis or healing. To further condense the description, we focus on only four key team members: physician (dan), day nurse (marta), night nurse (gary), pharmacist (ming).
