Customized library tutorial for online BSN students: library and nursing partnership.
Students returning to school to earn advanced degrees frequently experience difficulty accessing and retrieving information necessary to complete assignments. The authors describe the need, the development process, and the outcome of the partnership between nursing faculty and librarians to provide a customized library tutorial for online registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing students.
Shaw Morrison
Ruby
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Capstone College of Nursing, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0358, USA. rmorriso@bama.ua.edu
Krishnamurthy
Mangala
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D000407:Alabama; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003200:Computer User Training / Q000379:methods; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000458:organization & administration; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004518:Education, Professional, Retraining / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet; D007994:Libraries, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007998:Library Science / Q000193:education; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012573:School Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires