MacDonald, Susan L., Winter, Todie and Luke, Robert (2010) Roles for Information professionals in patient education: Librarians' perspective. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 5 (1). ISSN 1911-9593

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Abstract

The Personal Education Plan (PEPTalk) was a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research
project (2005-2006) based at the University Health Network's Princess Margaret
Hospital to design an information system to provide web-based health information
resources to both patients and clinicians under a shared umbrella of patient education.
This article provides an overview of the PEPTalk project methods and outcomes, and
documents the contributions of librarians throughout the design and clinical
implementation stages of the project. Librarians brought expertise about information
seeking behaviours of both patients and clinicians to the project; liaised across
institutional and professional boundaries; developed a classification system for online
learning objects, and educated project team members about information and health
literacies. The contributions of librarians on the PEPTalk project illustrate the need for
boundary spanners, information brokers, knowledge translators, and change champions
in the design and implementation of patient education delivery systems. There are new
roles emerging at the intersections of clinical practice and health information provision.
There is a need for the traditional skills and expertise of librarians and other information
professionals in tailoring health information; yet the design and implementation of
patient education systems also require the development of new knowledge and the
application of advanced information literacy as it pertains to both clinicians and patients.

Item Type:	Article
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2016 21:00
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2021 19:31
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/1134

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