title: Beyond google: finding and evaluating web-based information for community-based nursing practice.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri, USA. lmiller@missouri.edu
authors.forename: Louise C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Rebecca S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Graves
authors.forename: Barbara B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Maryellen C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sievert
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D019992:Databases as Topic; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D016245:Librarians; D020380:Needs Assessment; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
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