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Building a foundation for an evidence-based approach to practice: teaching basic concepts to undergraduate freshman students.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing introduced evidence-based practice (EBP) into the freshman-level curriculum this year. This article describes the reasons behind this decision, the development of the curriculum, the specific EBP content, and the student assignments. The introduction of EBP into the first-level nursing curriculum has proven to be successful; consideration is even being given to expanding the EBP content.

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Computer literacy study: report of qualitative findings.

Computer literacy and information literacy are critical to the future of nursing. The very nature of health care is being transformed in response to environmental drivers such as the demands for cost-effective delivery of high quality services and enhanced patient safety. Facilitating the quality transformation depends on strategic changes such as implementing evidence-based practice (), promoting outcome research (), initiating interdisciplinary care coordination [Zwarenstein, M., Bryant, W. (2004). Interventions to promote collaboration between nurses and doctors. The Cochrane Library(I)], and implementing electronic health records (). Information management serves as a central premise of each of these strategies and is an essential tool to facilitate change. This report of the analysis of qualitative data from a national online survey of baccalaureate nursing education programs describes the current level of integration of the computer literacy and information literacy skills and competencies of nursing faculty, clinicians, and students in the United States. The outcomes of the study are important to guide curriculum development in meeting the changing health care environmental demands for quality, cost-effectiveness, and safety.

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Rural women with chronic illness: computer use and skill acquisition.

Chronically ill rural women must manage complex illness without easy access to health care resources including support and health information. The Women to Women project is a technology-based program with an overarching aim to assist rural women in the day-to-day management of their illnesses. An important aspect of the Women to Women program is teaching the women how to use the Internet to meet their support and informational needs. The purposes of this article are to examine changes in 1) the level of computer skills, 2) degree of comfort in using the computer, and 3) knowledge of Internet functions for the participants in the Women to Women computer-based intervention. Results of the initial analysis of data from 63 women (intervention group n = 29, control group n = 34) indicate that women participating in the intervention reported greater computer skills and computer comfort and greater knowledge of specific aspects of Internet use than women in the control group. These findings were further strengthened considering that intervention and control group differentials were sustained 8 months after the end of the women's participation in the computer intervention. With the attainment of computer and Internet skills, it is expected that these rural women will have a sustained ability to access quality Internet information that will allow them to better manage and adapt to their chronic illnesses.

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PubMed1990

Micro-computers: availability to and use by trainees in public health medicine.

A survey of the availability to and use of micro-computers by public health medicine trainees was undertaken in February, 1989. Most departments have access to computers and trainees possess computing skills, but almost one in 15 trainees had no access to a micro-computer, and one trainee in eleven had no computing experience while a further one in eight had not progressed beyond word-processing. Departments of Public Health Medicine should review their computing resources and ensure that they are adequate for the challenges of the 1990s.

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PubMed1998

The role of library and information services in the modular curriculum.

Radical changes in nurse education, accompanied by advances in library and information services (LIS), set against a background of ever-expanding nursing literature and information, have favoured the development of good practices in curriculum development and student-centred learning. This paper discusses the experience at Keele University of enhanced collaborative effort between curriculum planners and LIS staff, and aims to show how LIS can facilitate student learning and contribute to curriculum planning and delivery, quality resource provision, evaluation processes and life-long learning.

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PubMed1998

Information literacy: a resource for nurses as lifelong learners.

The use of information technologies throughout the world continues to increase rapidly and inexorably. Information exchange is rapidly becoming a major economic commodity. The short half-life of professional and technical knowledge necessitates nursing graduates having generic qualities that will enable them to adapt to technical change and cope with an 'information overabundant environment'. Today's nurses must have the capacity to access information, both physically and intellectually; that is, they must be information-literate. Nurses need to be discerning information consumers in order to acquire knowledge and skills in relation to their jobs and social roles and as participants of a democratic society. This paper examines information literacy as a critical resource for nurses as lifelong learners, and explores how information literacy is situated in the nursing literature. The authors pose two questions. Firstly, just how information-literate and aware of information literacy is the nursing profession? Secondly, how can the attitudes, skills and knowledge associated with information literacy be fostered, cultivated and attained in nursing education?

Computer Communication Networks↗
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An Internet primer, Part II: Tools of the Internet.

This article reviews several of the key tools and protocols that physicians use to access information on the internet. They include the World Wide Web, electronic mail, newsgroups, Gopher, and file transfer protocol. A general description of these tools, and some tips and nuances in their application, are discussed. This article is the second in a three-part series, "An Internet Primer."

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PubMed1999

Preferences for different sources of information about cancer.

A wide range of cancer information resources is available to patients and their relatives, who are increasingly acting as independent learners. In order to examine preferences for different types of information and to establish the appropriateness of providing a Web-based cancer information resource (CancerHelp UK) a questionnaire survey was undertaken. Of 258 questionnaires distributed to patients attending for oncology outpatient or general practice appointments, 205 (80%) were suitable for analysis. 74% (95% confidence interval 68% to 80%) of participants wanted as much information as possible. All participants cited people most frequently as a future source of cancer information. All participants frequently cited television as a source of both general and cancer-specific information. Despite a lack of computer experience patients were significantly more likely than other groups to say that they would like to use the Web-based resource. It is suggested that such resources are likely to be increasingly well used, particularly by cancer patients, given the growth in health information on the Web and developments in delivery of digital information into the home via television.

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