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Judging nursing information on the WWW: a theoretical understanding
Raffik Cader1, Steve Campbell, Don Watson
1School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. raffik.cader@northumbria.ac.uk
Journal of Advanced Nursing
|August 22, 2009
Summary
Nurses evaluate World Wide Web health information using a multi-faceted judgement process. This involves specific tasks, knowledge types, and influencing factors like critical skills, aiding reliable information selection for nursing practice.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Information Science
- Healthcare Informatics
Background:
- The World Wide Web (WWW) offers increased access to health information.
- Variable WWW information quality poses a risk of misinformation.
- Nurses require robust skills to select reliable online health resources for practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the judgement processes nurses employ when evaluating WWW information for nursing practice.
- To develop a theoretical framework for understanding nurse's online information evaluation.
Main Methods:
- Grounded theory approach.
- Data collected via semi-structured interviews and focus groups (2004-2005).
- Participants included 20 postgraduate nursing students and 13 hospital nurses in the UK.
Main Results:
- A theoretical framework was developed, detailing nurses' WWW information evaluation process.
- Nurses broke down evaluation into specific tasks.
- Tacit, process, and propositional knowledge, intuition, quasi-rational cognition, and analysis were utilized.
- Influencing factors included information cues, time constraints, and nurses' critical appraisal skills.
Conclusions:
- Recognizing and addressing the quality and reliability of WWW health information is a global imperative.
- The developed theoretical framework can aid in meeting this challenge by informing educational strategies and practice guidelines.
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