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Critical Thinking

Bhavnani, S. & John, B. (n.d.) From Sufficient to Efficient Usage: An Analysis of Strategic Knowledge.This article focuses on efficiency in using computer tools. Although it uses some examples for learning to use computer-assisted-drawing, the principles espoused are very pertinent to critical thinking as well as use of any tool. Their main premise is that efficiency (and possibly quality) lies in the ability to aggregate tasks and see how to accomplish them as a whole instead of in a one by one fashion.
http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/paper/skb.htm

Critical Thinking Exercise: Applying Critical Thinking Guidelines.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~mdlee/Teaching/critical1.html

Eight Critical Thinking Guidelines in Chapter 1: What is Psychology. http://cla.calpoly.edu/~cslem/Invit/1/Chp1c.html

Evaluating Web Information

Commission of the European Communities (2002). eEurope 2002: Quality Criteria for Health related Websites. Journal Medical Internet Researcy 4(2).
http://www.jmir.org/2002/3/e15

Health Related Web Site Evaluation Form. Consists of three pages. (For glossary of terms used in the form see http://www.sph.emory.edu/WELLNESS/glossary.html)
http://www.sph.emory.edu/WELLNESS/instrument.html

Nicoll, L. (2000). Quick and Effective Web site Evaluation. Originally published in CIN Plus in September 2000, this file explains an acronym that can be used when quickly evaluating a Web site. Full citation is Nicoll, L. H. Quick and effective web site evaluation. CIN Plus. 2000; 3(3) Sep 1:9,12. If you access online be sure to add [Electronic Version]
http://www.mainedesk.com/web site%20eval1.pdf

Checklist that allows users to evaluate a Website using scoring.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/mlaguide/free/webeval.pdf

Health-Related Web Site Evaluation Form.
http://www.sph.emory.edu/WELLNESS/instrument.html

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing. Lists criteria, but adds a discussion about each point.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html

Web site Evaluation Grid. A simple checklist.
http://www.bettycjung.net/Wseval.htm

Consumer and Patient Health Information Section. This is not a tool, but discusses some of the points to use in evaluating. It also links to sites that the Medical Library Association has vetted and approved.
http://caphis.mlanet.org/resources/findingitontheweb.html

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Evidence-Based Practice

Editorial in Critical Care Nurse. 2006;26: 11-12 summarizing the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) online, electronic survey of active RNs in the United States about their use of evidence-based practice.
http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/6/11

Here you can download booklets that address nursing concerns in many areas including patient safety and evidence-based practice.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice. The University of Texas Health Sciences Consortium page about evidence-based practice. Contains Kathleen Stevens ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation.
http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/Learn_model.htm

Evidence Report Topics from Evidence-based Practice Centers. The findings of meta analysis of many medical conditions that have been evaluated by the 12 Evidence-based Practice Centers.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/epcquick.htm

Techniques for Locating Evidence-Based Practice Resources. Although medically aimed, is equally applicable to nursing. Includes a definition of EBP, the terminology, and a description of the types of evidence. The links to some articles don't work for those outside the University of Washington, but other links do and are excellent.
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/ebp/

Finding Reliable Health Information

Finding Health Information on the Web. This site has information about finding information as well as guides to sources beyond the usual search engines.
http://www.healthysf.org/searching.html

Healthfinder. A US government site that allows you to search vetted sites for health information. Good for consumers.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Merck Manual. Search for a condition.
http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_home.jsp

Medic8. Provides many helpful tools for healthcare professionals as well as publishing articles by professionals on various health-related topics.
http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/search.htm

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site allows searching for any conditions. Results have been vetted. You can search for items not included in the results from clicking on a letter.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Information Literacy

Florida International University Libraries links to information literacy resources on the WWW. All links are organized into categories, and a brief description given for each site.
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/iliweb.html

Information Literacy: An Overview of Design, Process and Outcomes: The Building Blocks of Research. An overview of skills, strategies for achieving and expected outcomes plus hints for curriculum design for imparting knowledge of information literacy.
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/1over/infolit1.html

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. From the Association of College and Research Libraries.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

 

Humes, B. (1999). Understanding Information Literacy. A paper that addresses many aspects of information literacy including why we should be concerned about it, and implications for teaching, learning, the workplace, and society.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/UnderLit/index.html

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Invisible Web

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed. An excellent source for finding hidden Web content.
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html

Invisible Web. There are many legitimate sources that the usual search tools such as Google, don't find. This site provides hints for finding this material and reasons why some sites are invisible.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

Specialized Search Tools

Clusty. A meta search tool (searches many search tools) that clusters the findings to aid the searcher in narrowing the search. A clickable list on the left side of the screen provides the topics of the clusters, allowing a user to immediately locate the appropriate cluster.
http://clusty.com/

Google Help. Too often a search using Google yields too many listings, most of which are not pertinent to your search. Use this quick list to help refine and improve your Google search. Remember that any information found on the Web needs to be evaluated!
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

Hakia. This search tool returns high quality items and narrows the search.
http://www.hakia.com/

PubMed Searching. Improve your searching skills of PubMed with these three tutorials. They range in time from 3 to 5 minutes and are worth every minute.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh?itool=sidebar

Read Write Web. Information about alternative search tools, that is those that search items such as Web 2.0..
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines_mar07.php

Using IT to Support Evidence-Based Nursing Practice at the Point of Care. Excellent presentation by Judy Murphy with some concrete examples. 70 pages.
http://www.himss.org/content/files/HIMSSNIAudioconference_Murphy062707.pdf

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Web Search Strategies

U.C. Berkeley Library WWW (2001). Recommended search strategy. Provides help in analyzing a topic for the appropriate words to use in a search and then selecting the appropriate search tool.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html.

Web Search Strategies. Information about all types of searching, including using directories, and information about the features in search engines.
http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/main.html

Beyond Google, Improve Your Search Results. This short guide to 15 tools and strategies for helping your students (and your colleagues) improve their Internet search results. Excellent help, also includes add-ons for Firefox to improve searching. (Added November 2, 2009)
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1hp1q/BeyondGoogle15Toolsa/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fembed%2Flibrary_item%2F106121%3Fmode%3Dflipbook

Tutorials

Searching the Web

A tutorial from the University of South Carolina Beaufort Library, called Bare Bones 101 provides excellent, quick, easy to read information. Has information about several of the more popular search tools. Recommended for any level of searcher.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

 

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative about health literacy provides a web site at http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/

Online Utility tool to test readability. http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp

How to Write Easy to Read Health Materials.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/etr.html

Medline Plus asthma definition. http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=asthma

National Library of Medicine links to tutorials and journal articles about navigating health information web sites.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm

Joint Commission. http://www.jointcommission.org/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) http://www.cms.hhs.gov/

National Institutes of Health (NIH). http://www.nih.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/

CDC Wonder. http://wonder.cdc.gov/

Medscape - http://www.medscape.com/

FindArticles http://findarticles.com/

ADVANCE for Nurses http://nursing.advance.com/

ALLnurses http://allnurses.com

ANA Web site - http://nursingworld.org/

Sigma Theta Tau - http://www.nursingsociety.org/ (to find resources, click on Research Library>Nursing Library)

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Evidence-Based Practice/Medicine

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
http://www.iom.edu/?id=12736

Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10681

Evidence-Based Practice (Interactive Tutorial) http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/learn/ebp/

Netting the Evidence http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/

Center for Evidence-Based Medicine http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

New York Access Online to Health (NOAH) http://www.noah-health.org/en/ebm/

Evidence-Based Nursing

Sigma Theta Tau International http://www.nursingsociety.org/default.aspx

Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing http://medical.lib.uci.edu/ebp.html

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice  http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/default.html

Evidence Based Nursing http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebn/splash.htm

Joanna Briggs Institute:  Evidence Based Nursing http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/eb_nursing.php

NurseScribe http://www.enursescribe.com/evidencebased.htm

Evidence-Based Care Competencies

Health Professions Education:  A Bridge to Quality  http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10681

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice  http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/default.html

Clinical Practice Guidelines

AHRQ Clinical Practice Guidelines Online  http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/cpgonline.htm

AHRQ National Guideline Clearinghouse  http://www.guideline.gov/

CDC:  The Community Guide http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html

Nursing Best Practice Guidelines  (Registered Nurses of Ontario) http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=861&SiteNodeID=133

Canadian Medical Association: INFOBASE  http://mdm.ca/cpgsnew/cpgs/index.asp

Joanna Briggs Institute: Best Practice Information Sheets http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/best_practice.php

Research

Evidence Based Nursing http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebn/splash.htm

Netting the Evidence http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/

What is Critical http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/download/whatis/What_is_critical_appraisal.pdf

Nursing Research: Show me the evidence (blog)  http://evidencebasednursing.blogspot.com/

Online Databases

The Cochrane Collaboration (abstracts)  http://www.cochrane.org/index.htm

University of Minnesota:  Bio-Medical Library  http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/help/guides/EBM

Netting the Evidence http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/

Handheld Computer Evidence-Based Care Resources

National Institute of Nursing Research:  Video/Audio/Podcasts  http://www.ninr.nih.gov/NewsAndInformation/PodCastMultimedia/

Center for Evidence-Based Medicine  http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/

University of Minnesota:  Bio-Medical Library  http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/help/guides/EBM

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2005). Position paper:  Nursing education's agenda for the 21st century.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/positions/nrsgedag.htm

American Library Association. (2000). Information literacy competency standards for higher education.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm

Breivik, P. S. (1991). Information literacy [Electronic Version]. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 79, 226-229. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=225527&blobtype=pdf

Committee on Information Technology Literacy, & National Research Council. (1999). Being Fluent with Information Technology. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.nap.edu/html/beingfluent/

Fox, S. (2006). Online Health Search 2006. Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online_Health_2006.pdf

Fox, S. (2007, October 8). E-patients with a disability or chronic disease.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/EPatients_Chronic_Conditions_2007.pdf

National Work Group on Literacy and Health. (1998). Communicating with patients who have limited literacy skills: Report of the National Work Group on Literacy and Health [Electronic Version]. Journal of Family Practice, 46. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0689/is_n2_v46/ai_20331148/pg_1

Phizer. (2006). What is clear health communication?   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.org/

Schloman, B. F. (2004). Health literacy: a key ingredient for managing personal health. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 9(2), 6. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals
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HealthLiteracyAKeyIngredientforManagingPersonalHealth.aspx

Sigma Theta Tau International. (2002, December 12). Evidence based nursing position statement.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.nursingknowledge.org/Portal/CMSLite/GetFile.aspx?ContentID=78260

Sigma Theta Tau International. (2004). Virginia Henderson international nursing library.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.nursinglibrary.org/portal/Main.aspx?PageID=4002 (You must go through the front page at http://www.nursingsociety.org , select Research/Library>Nursing Library to get to this resource.)

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