title: Developing information literacy skills in pre-registration nurses: an experimental study of teaching methods.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the effectiveness of an online information literacy tutorial with a face-to-face session for teaching information literacy skills to nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Randomised control trial.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-seven first year undergraduate pre-registration diploma nursing students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Online in-house information literacy tutorial
  One hour face-to-face session, covering the same material as the intervention, delivered by the nursing subject librarian.
  
  
  METHODS
  Search histories were scored using a validated checklist covering keyword selection, boolean operators, truncation and synonyms. Skills retention was measured at 1 month using the same checklist. Inferential statistics were used to compare search skills within and between groups pre and post-session.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The searching skills of first year pre-registration nursing students improve following information literacy sessions (p<0.001), and remain unchanged 1 month later, regardless of teaching method. The two methods produce a comparable improvement (p=0.263). There is no improvement or degradation of skills 1 month post-session for either method (p=0.216).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses Information literacy skills improve after both face-to-face and online instruction. There is no skills degradation at 1 month post-intervention for either method.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. a.brettle@salford.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brettle
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raynor
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D020375:Education, Distance; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D058980:Information Literacy; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D012107:Research Design; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*