Criteria Used by Nurses to Evaluate Practice-Related Information on the World Wide Web

Title
Criteria Used by Nurses to Evaluate Practice-Related Information on the World Wide Web
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Cader, Raffik
Campbell, Steve
Watson, Don
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Place of publication
United States of America
UNE publication id
une:5806
Abstract
Existing criteria used to evaluate information on the World Wide Web often are not related to nursing, especially in relation to clinical and evidence-based practice. Published criteria have been found orientated to the health-consumer, medicine, or general information. In this study, the process by which nurses evaluate practice-related information and the associated evaluative nursing criteria were investigated using a grounded theory approach. In the first stage of this ongoing investigation, semistructured interviews were used to collect data from UK postregistration nursing students. The findings from this initial study provided indications of the process and the criteria for evaluating information on the World Wide Web. Participating students identified intuition as part of the evaluative process. They identified some criteria similar to existing standards, but critically, with additional criteria that are nursing practice related. Because these new criteria are significant for evaluating nursing information, further refinement of these findings is being undertaken through the next stage of the research program.
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Citation
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 21(2), p. 97-102
ISSN
1538-9774
1538-2931
Start page
97
End page
102

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