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Home Health Nursing Information Behavior in a Historic Time of Pandemic: Shifting Taxonomic Facets
1 Graduate Studies in Nursing, College of Nursing and Public Health, Adelphi University, 1 South Ave., Garden City NY 11350, USA
2 New York City College of Technology (CUNY), 300 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
3 400 2nd Avenue, Apt. 23G, New York, NY 10010, USA
4 Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure, Inc., 19111 Indian Springs Rd., Lake Oswego, OR 97035, USA
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic affected information-based applications that became critical tools for survival. Nursing information behavior (NIB) during the pandemic was analyzed through textual data culled from news videos and interviews with frontline homecare nurses in terms of how they practiced home care in the midst of COVID-19. Did the NIB conceptual framework change for nurses during COVID-19? There were shifts in concentrations in the taxonomic facets during the pandemic. The present study aimed to explain the contextual changes in emphasis in the various processes and taxonomic facets in home health nursing, as influenced by the pandemic. Outcomes of the qualitative analysis of video transcripts offer the readers an understanding of how nurses adapted to the pandemic. Co-word analysis of the video transcripts was used to map twenty new terms to the Core Taxonomy-NIB (CT-NIB). The addition to the core taxonomy of an emotive layer combined with pandemic-specific nursing practices suggests certain shifts, cultural and otherwise, in NIB. The significance of this research lies in the “intertwining” of knowledge organization (KO) and NIB—two disciplines creating a synergistic effect to not only describe the effect of the pandemic but also to advance the knowledge base of home health nursing.