Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The development of support for a more research-based approach to care has created the imperative for nursing education to tackle the issue of information literacy. Information literacy means the ability to locate, evaluate and apply information in critical thinking and problem solving. This paper outlines and provides a rationale for a curriculum-integrated information literacy programme, implemented in the pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing course at the University of WoHongong, NSW, Australia. It also describes a multidimensional evaluation process for determining nursing students' growth in cognitive and affective domains. Results of the programme evaluation will be featured in a future paper.
RIS ID
20487
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Publication Details
This article was originally published as Wallace, M, Shorten, A, Crookes, P, McGurk, C and Brewer, C, Integrating information literacies into an undergraduate nursing programme', Nurse Education Today, 19(2), February 1999, 136-41.