Teaching+Tips+-+Mapping+to+the+ACRL+Information+Literacy+Competency+Standards+for+Nursing


 * ===**Standard One **=== ||  ||   ||
 * Composes a PICO(TT) question from a sample topic. || 1.1.c ||  ||
 * Identifies MeSH and CINAHL headings in a relevant database and compares search results from searching with subject terms vs. keywords. || 1.1.g ||  ||
 * Have a panel of “experts” with different professional perspectives (e.g. MD, FNP, psychologist) visit class and share their knowledge about or experience with the topic. (e.g. children with asthma). || 1.2.d ||  ||
 * Discusses the publication cycle including the kind of information found at different stages of the cycle. Evaluates the credibility of each source. Identifies examples of an informal medical website, a formal medical website, a medical blog, and medical databases. || 1.3.a ||  ||
 * Defines primary sources of nursing and shows an example of each. || 1.3.b ||  ||
 * Defines secondary sources of nursing and shows an example of each. || 1.3.c ||  ||
 * Lists of as many professional associations in their field as can be found in a five minute to Google search. || 1.3.d ||  ||
 * Visits the library collection, finds and discusses content of nursing manuals, handbooks, etc. relevant to their field || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.3.e ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creates two lists—one of different research populations and one of research methods. Distinguish which methods are appropriate for each of the listed populations. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.4.e ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrates ability to work through the iterative process of background research, databases for foreground research, and refining of PICO(TT) question after class demonstration. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.5.a, b ||  ||
 * ===**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standard Two **=== ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluates medical databases identifying the content, scope, search functionality, etc. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.1.a, b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Searches CINAHL and PubMed/Medline to find an example of primary and secondary sources and quantitative and qualitative data on a sample topic. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.1.d ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrates effective strategies for addressing a PICO(TT) question, identifying subject databases and search terms for each PICO(TT) element. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.a ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lists synonyms that could be used for searching a given PICO(TT) question. Compares results of searches using different keywords. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrates a keyword search and a subject heading search on a specific topic. Identifies the results of each search and its relevance to the PICO(TT) question. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.c ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Locates search terms in MeSH or CINAHL tree structure and uses database limiters to conduct search. (Restrict to major topic, include terms lower on the hierarchy, subheadings) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.d ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finds an article on a nursing theory and how it is applied to a specific population. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.g ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examines the references in an article relevant to the PICO(TT) question and identify additionalarticles that relate to the research question. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.2.i ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses database limiters to locate a variety of material within parameters given in a worksheet. (e.g. a systematic review on a topic that is more than 3 years old, a clinical trial on humans) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.4.b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrates using limiters in PubMed/Medline and CINAHL to narrow search (e.g. publication type, publication factors such as language, population factors, such as age groups). || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.4.a, b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Appraises search results for relevance to the PICO(TT) question used. Evaluates the best way to search for this particular question. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.4.e ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Establish an account in NCBI and CINAHL to save searches, set up alerts and save search history. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.5.c ||  ||
 * ===**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standard Three **=== ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summarizes current evidence regarding major diagnostic and treatment actions within the practice specialty. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.1.a ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Takes the [|Plagiarism Self Test] as homework from Western Carolina University's Writing Center, located online at http://www.wcu.edu/11869.asp |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.1.a, b, & d ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summarizes the main ideas of an article addresses a research question, using PICO(TT) format if appropriate. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.1.b, & c ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluates consumer health information sources for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.a, b, c, e, & f ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluates a protocol from work, and analyzes it in class with a worksheet to judge if it is evidence-based, or not. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.a, b, & e ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provides examples of clinical opinions from research, and evidence summaries. Identifies what differentiates them and in what context each would be useful. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.b ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discusses the possible impact of assumptions, prejudice, deception, and manipulation in the research process. Provide examples of cases studies; such as the historic "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," or research studies funded by pharmaceutical companies. Identifies their own biases as researchers and information consumers. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.c ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifies an article from a discipline other than medicine or nursing that is relevant to their research question after searching a multidisciplinary database such as Academic Search Complete. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.d ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifies the context of a current scholarly article and compares it with another source on the same topic from a significantly different historical, social, or cultural context. Discusses the influence of context on the production and interpretation of information in the health professions. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.f ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifies a popular media article on a health topic and verifies its claims using another source. Describes and critically evaluates the research methods and arguments of both articles. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.2.g ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creates individualized care plans based on patient values, clinical expertise, and evidence. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.3.a, & b ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identifies, collects, and mines raw data from researchers in multiple disciplines to apply to nursing practice. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.3.a, b, c, d, e, f, & g ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Integrates knowledge from diverse sources and across disciplines, and then applies this knowledge to solve practice problems and improve health outcomes. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.3.a, b, c, d, e, f, & g ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Translates current evidence into practice, and evaluates the outcomes. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.3.a, b, c, e, f, & g ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classifies evidence-based practice resource on a given topic, using the “Levels of Evidence Pyramid” (see []) Reports to class the highest-level or most relevant evidence they found, and to explain how it supports a specific practice.Note: A good online tutorial on evidence based nursing is available at http://www.lib.uci.edu/how/tutorials/EvidenceBasedPractice/ |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.3.e ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Questions rationale for routine approaches to care that result in less-than-desired outcomes or adverse events. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.4.a. b, c, d, f, h, & i ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluates personal facility for EBP by taking the Readiness for Evidence-Based Practice Survey, from the article: Provikoff, Tanner & Pierce (2005). CE Credit: Readiness of U.S. nurses for evidence-based practice. AJN, 105 (9): 40-52. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.4.a, b, c, d, f, g, h, & i ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Updates teaching, training, and patient education materials. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.4.a, c, d, g, h, & i ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Updates clinical knowledge including protocols, procedures, care plans, practice guidelines, complementary and alternative medicine, and pharmaceutical approaches. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.4.a, g, h, & i ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conducts a literature review, systematic review, meta-analysis, or meta-synthesis to determine contradictions or unique characteristics of the research to guide nursing practice. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.4.c, d, f, g, h, & i ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Validates understanding and interpretation of information through discourse with other BSN students, individuals, subject-area experts, and/or practitioners by:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Attending or observing ethics rounds, and/or a presentation of an ethics committee member at a hospital.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having a fieldwork experience with the goal of partnering with a team in practice, such as a patient safety initiative interdisciplinary team, an interprofessional education team, or a quality improvement team.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ask and discuss with multiple professionals about professional roles, knowledge translation, role boundaries, and diverse disciplinary perspectives. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5.a, b, c, & e ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrates the difference in results found using the same search terms in different databases (for instance, searching the term “neoplasms” in Medline/PubMed and CINAHL). |||| <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.6.e ||
 * ===**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standard Four **=== ||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presents information in different formats for different audiences/purposes (e.g. care plan, patient instruction, practice guideline, poster, podium presentation, blog post, scholarly article, etc.) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.1.a, b, c, & d4.3.a, b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discusses and provides examples of different research designs for a variety of purposes. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.1.h ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writes a research journal or some other record of the processes used over time to find, evaluate and communicate health information. Revisits this record and identifies opportunities for growth and learning. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.2.a, b, c ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discusses the concept of translational research and the ways in which it can contribute to patient care over time. Describes ways in which a specific biomedical research finding could be applied to patient care, clinical practice and/or community health. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.2.d ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses a visual representation of the Information Cycle in the health sciences to initiate a discussion of students’ contribution as researchers, practitioners, educators and authors. See [] and [] for examples. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.3.f, g ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Researches a recent health policy in the news and finds evidence that supports a position on that policy. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.3.h ||  ||
 * ===**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Standard Five **=== ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discusses the various models of scientific publishing, including open-access journals. Explores publication and subscription fees for several journal titles. Examines sites such as PubMedCentral, BioMedCentral, PLoS and DOAJ; identifies how such sites fit into the information cycle and publishing practices. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.1.b ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses a checklist to navigate fair use guidelines and determines whether a particular use of copyrighted information is appropriate. The Fair Use Checklist from Columbia University’s Copyright Advisory Office ([]) is excellent, but it would be even better to develop a checklist specifically for the health professions. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.1.f, 5.2.f ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Highlight the ethical, legal, and financial issues of access to subscription databases and the use of material provided by institutions and organizations outside of the academic setting. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.2.a ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uses examples to demonstrate correct citation of references, and practices reading citations from a variety of sources. Discusses the historical development of citation styles and how they demonstrate the values of the discipline they represent. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.3.a ||  ||