Beyond google: finding and evaluating web-based information for community-based nursing practice

Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh. 2010;7(1):Article31. doi: 10.2202/1548-923X.1961. Epub 2010 Aug 16.

Abstract

Nurses are challenged to find and use reliable, credible information to support clinical decision-making and to meet expectations for evidence-based nursing practice. This project targeted practicing public health and school nurses, teaching them how to access and critically evaluate web-based information resources for frontline practice. Health sciences librarians partnered with nursing faculty to develop two participatory workshops to teach skills in searching for and evaluating web-based consumer and professional practice resources. The first workshop reviewed reliable, credible consumer web-resources appropriate to use with clients, using published criteria to evaluate website credibility. In the second workshop, nurses were taught how to retrieve and evaluate health-related research from professional databases to support evidence-based nursing practice. Evaluation data indicated nurses most valued knowing about the array of reliable, credible web-based health information resources, learning how to evaluate website credibility, and understanding how to find and apply professional research literature to their own practice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Community Health Nursing*
  • Databases as Topic
  • Evidence-Based Nursing
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Internet*
  • Librarians
  • Needs Assessment
  • Nursing Informatics*
  • Review Literature as Topic