It is essential that nurses attain solid information
literacy skills before they graduate and move into
practice [1]. Ideally, these skills are introduced in the
nursing education curricula and are expected to be
retained throughout one’s career in clinical and/or
academic practice. Although information-seeking
skills have been identified as critical, a number of
studies reveal that nursing students, as well as
practicing nurses, are not confident in their librarysearching
skills [2, 3]. Research has looked at the types
of resources that nursing students access [4, 5], but
little has been reported in the literature about how
nursing students go about completing their searches,
what difficulties they encounter, and how successful
they are in locating information.