enhancing information literacy as a base of developing evidence-based nursing

Developing information literacy skills in nursing and rehabilitation therapy students

The environment in which nurses and rehabilitation therapists practice is rapidly evolving, resulting in changes in the skill sets and competencies required of new graduates. Evidence-based practice models, for example, require that entry-level nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists have the ability to identify, locate, and critically appraise research findings. This paper wil...

Enhancing computer literacy and information retrieval skills: A rural and remote nursing and midwifery workforce study.

Nurses and midwives collectively, represent the largest workforce category in rural and remote areas of Australia. Maintaining currency of practice and attaining annual licensure with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Authority (AHPRA) present challenges for individual nurses and midwives and for their health service managers. Engagement with information and communication technolog...

Concept of evidence based nursing and nursing education

Introduction: Contemporary advances in technology and sciences parallel to changeable patients' status make it essential to nurses to combine their skills and knowledge with evidences in order to identify patients' problems, care planning, implementation and evaluation through interaction with other health team members. Nurses must be able to make clinical decisions independently which is possi...

Developing an "experience framework" for an evidence-based information literacy educational intervention

Developing academic information literacy for undergraduates through inquiry based learning

This paper describes the design and implementation of an information literacy module for first semester undergraduate students at Loughborough University. These students were taking Information Management and either Business Studies or Computing, or a degree in Publishing with English or Publishing with Ebusiness or Web Development and Design. The purpose of the module was to enable them to wor...

Role of Information Literacy in Effective Evidence-based Practice

The healthcare sector is a dynamic and expanding area that is replete with numerous new developments, resulting in explosion of literature and information overload. An adequate level of information literacy is required to benefit from the growing healthcare literature. Concurrently, there also has been an emphasis on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), as a thoughtful integration of the best availab...