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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - June 2014, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Is Their Foundation Solid Enough To Build On: An Investigation Into The Information-Seeking Skills And Self-Efficacy Levels Of New Nursing Students, Kimberly J. Whalen, Patricia J. Mileham

Library Faculty Presentations

Researchers at a mid-sized, Midwest, faith-based university used a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group pretest posttest design to gather data from newly enrolled nursing students in a baccalaureate, masters and doctorate in nursing practice program. Literature regarding confidence levels, self-efficacy and information literacy skills was reviewed. Specific tools to assess confidence and self-efficacy of information literacy skills were explored. The 28-item Information Literacy Self-Efficacy Scale (ILSES) developed in 2006 by Serap Kurbanoglu was used in fall 2012, spring 2013 and fall 2013 to gather data from over 200 newly enrolled nursing students. Analysis of self-reported information literacy skills and self-efficacy levels …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - May 2014, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - March 2014, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Text 4 Health: Addressing Consumer Health Information Needs Via Text Reference Service, Van M. Ta Park

Faculty Publications

This study seeks to provide empirical evidence about how health-related questions are answered in text reference service in order to further the understanding of how to best use texting as a reference service venue to fulfill people’s health information needs. Two hundred health reference transactions from My Info Quest, the first nation-wide collaborative text reference service, were analyzed identify the types of questions, length of transactions, question-answering behavior, and information sources used in the transactions. Findings indicate that texting-based health reference transactions are usually brief, and cover a wide variety of topics. The most popular questions are those seeking general …

Five-Course Meal Infused With Information Skills And Resources, Kimberly J. Whalen, Suzanne E. Zentz

Library Faculty Publications

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Fostering Rn-To-Bsn Students’ Confidence In Searching Online For Scholarly Information On Evidence-Based Practice, Carol Mcculley, Melissa Jones

Faculty & Staff Publications

Graduates of bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) programs are increasingly expected to take an active role in assessing and improving nursing practice, and nurse educators are expected to prepare BSN students for this expanding role. Information literacy, the ability to search for, find, get, and use scholarly information to inform nursing practice, should be a critical component of nursing education. This article focuses on five strategies for teaching information literacy to registered nurse (RN)-to-BSN students in an online continuing education environment. These strategies include the addition of an embedded librarian to the online courses, collaboration between the librarian and …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - January 2014, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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A Service Learning Experience For Pharmacy Students Involving Unwanted Medication Collection, Patricia L. Darbishire

IMPACT Symposium

This poster outlining a serve learning experience of students in Purdue’s pharmacy program was presented at the IMPACT Symposium 2014.

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - December 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - November 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - October 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - September 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - August 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - July 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - June 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - May 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - April 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Hidden Surveillance On Consumer Health Information Websites, Jacquelyn A. Burkell, Alexandre Fortier

FIMS Publications

Behavioural tracking presents a significant privacy risk to Canadians, particularly when their online behaviours reveal sensitive information that could be used to discriminate against them. This concern is particularly relevant in the context of online health information seeking, since searches can reveal details about health conditions and concerns that the individual may wish to keep private. The privacy threats are exacerbated because behavioural tracking mechanisms are large invisible to users, and many are unaware of the strategies and mechanisms available to track online behaviour. In this project, we seek to document the behavioural tracking practices of consumer health websites, and …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - March 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - February 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Health Sciences Information Literacy In Cms Environments: Learning From Our Peers, Tierney Lyons, Stefanie Warlick

Libraries

With academic institutions’ adoption of Course/Learning Management Systems (CMS), librarians are increasingly providing content through this delivery method. This study aims to identify practical information for librarians considering CMS content development or re-evaluation of online offerings.

Mind The Gap: Fostering Scholarship-Into-Practice For Advanced Practice Nursing Students Through Embedded Librarianship, Brenda H. Sheingold, Thomas Harrod

Nursing Faculty Publications

In recent years, librarianship has been increasingly recognized as a critical component of inter-professional healthcare education. This manuscript describes how innovative coordination between libraries and university healthcare programs can remove the barriers to scholarship for graduate students who enroll in distance education (DE) programs. The authors examined the perceived impact of librarian embedment for DE nursing students graduating with master’s degrees from George Washington University in 2013. Librarians were embedded in the first course in which they were enrolled in 2010 to support the mastery of scientific research skills. Analysis indicated that students strongly agreed that contact with embedded librarians …

Information Sources In Relation To Information Quality, Information-Seeking, And Uncertainty In The Context Of Healthcare Reform, Jennifer L. Bevan

Communication Faculty Books and Book Chapters

This exploratory study examines information-seeking about the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e. healthcare reform) in relation to the potential barriers of uncertainty,uncertainty discrepancy, and low health self-efficacy. Adult United States participants completed an anonymous online survey about their perceptions and understanding of healthcare reform. Results confirmed recent literature, suggesting a complex relationship between information-seeking and uncertainty. Specifically, for this sample, significant positive relationships were observed between information-seeking about healthcare reform and uncertainty, uncertainty discrepancy, health self-efficacy. Further, uncertainty discrepancy was the potential barrier that accounted for the most variance in predicting information-seeking.Implications of these findings for improving …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - January 2013, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Health & Wellness Page, Ilana A. Mesnard

Blogging the Library

Where is health on your priority list? Good health is crucial for all people, but especially for musicians (or athletes) who need their bodies in top performance shape. Musicians in the conservatory need to be aware of how to stay healthy. The purposes of the Health and Wellness Page are to promote good health, and to create awareness of reliable resources on healthy lifestyle choices as musicians. [excerpt]

How To Formulate A Clinical Question And Effectively Search For The Answer, Neha Shah, Susan Keller

E-Learning Modules

This small group, case-based exercise is geared towards medical students on their pediatric clerkship. The goal of this session is to teach students how to re-frame their clinical questions into a format that allows for more effective and efficient searching of the literature.

I provide this session once a month as a part of the Third-year medical student core lecture series during their inpatient pediatrics rotation. My co-facilitator is a medical librarian. We initially used a lecture format in which we reviewed use of advanced PubMed features with very little interaction from the learners. Based on feedback and evaluations, we …

Curriculum-Integrated Information Literacy (Ciil) In A Nursing School: A Practical Model, Carlos Arguelles

Publications and Research

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Closing The Loop: Integrating Snapps Into An Outpatient Morning Report To Foster Self-Directed Learning And Encourage Use Of Evidence Based Medicine, Julia Magana, Jimmy Beck

E-Learning Modules

This resources describes a novel approach to outpatient morning report. This format encourages self-directed learning as well as teaches residents to use the clinical literature to ensure they were providing optimal patient care. Each resident daily chooses a clinical question from that day's patient care, investigates and brings the answer back to the group during morning report. This resource includes a description of the integration and implementation of this format as well as the handout used by the residents.

Since the implementation of our new morning report format, our residents have consistently read about their patients on a nightly basis. …

Important Information Literacy Standards For Life And Health Sciences, Betsy S. Hopkins

Faculty Publications

Information literacy in the life and health sciences is a dynamic field, with challenges, opportunities, and rewards for the successful practitioner. This chapter will describe the big picture of information literacy in these disciplines, list relevant performance indicators from the ALA/ACRL/STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology [STS-TFILST] (2006) Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (hereafter Standards), and give some practical advice for life and health sciences librarians and librarians with instructional responsibilities in those disciplines. The focus is on undergraduates at research universities, although many principles and strategies will apply to other circumstances.