A curricular approach to improve the information literacy and academic writing skills of part-time post-registration nursing students in Hong Kong
In today's environment of rapidly changing health care and information technology, nurses require a broad range of skills. One of the key skills required of all health professionals in this environment is information literacy. For registered nurses returning to a university setting to study for their baccalaureate degree, becoming information literate is one of many challenges they face. Also key to students' ability to use and communicate information in an appropriate and effective manner is their writing skills. This article describes a curricular intervention designed to develop and strengthen post-registration nurses' information literacy and academic writing competencies. An introductory information management module was developed and provided to three successive cohorts of students (n=159). Students were predominantly female (85.4%) with a mean age of 34.2 years (SD=6.8). Prior to commencing the program, students reported low information literacy and writing skills, especially in accessing and searching electronic databases and using referencing formats. The post-test evaluation of skills showed substantial and statistically significant increases in all assessed competencies. This intervention demonstrated that with structured but flexible learning activities early in the curriculum, post-registration nursing students can quickly become information literate.
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2008 |
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2008 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28 |
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Nurse education today - 28(2008), 4 vom: 03. Mai, Seite 458-68 |
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Englisch |
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Tarrant, Marie [VerfasserIn] |
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Evaluation Study |
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Date Completed 11.07.2008 Date Revised 10.12.2019 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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