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Information Literacy in the Disciplines

This guide contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education

Information Literacy in the Disciplines: Nursing

The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered together links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education in Nursing.

1. Standards and Guidelines from Accrediting Agencies & Professional Associations

Association of College & Research Libraries Health Sciences Interest Group – Information Literacy Standards for Nursing Task Force. 2013. “Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing.” American Library Association.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. “Standards, Procedures, & Guidelines.”

American Nurses Association. 2022. Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice. Third edition. Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Publishing.

National League for Nursing. “Standards of Accreditation.”

2. Related Research

Diekema, Anne R., Elizabeth Betsy S. Hopkins, Brandon Patterson, and Nena Schvaneveldt. 2019. “Using Information Practices of Nurses to Reform Information Literacy Instruction in Baccalaureate Nursing Programs.” Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 14 (4): 72-102. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29588

Ebenezer, Catherine. 2015. “Nurses’ and Midwives’ Information Behaviour: A Review of Literature from 1998 to 2014.” New Library World 116 (3/4): 155-172.

Forster, Marc. 2015. “Six ways of experiencing information literacy in nursing: The findings of a phenomenographic study.” Nurse Education Today 35 (1): 195-200.

Hallyburton, Ann. 2016. “A Conceptual Approach to Practitioners’ Health Information Literacy.” Reference Services Review 44 (2): 178-190.

McGowan, Bethany Sheriese. 2019. “Reimagining information literacy instruction in an evidence-based practice nursing course for undergraduate students.” Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 107 (4): 572-578.

McGowan, Bethany S., Laureen Cantwell, Jamie Conklin, Julie Planchon Wolf, Maribeth Slebodnik, Rebecca Raszewski, Sandy McCarthy, and Shannon Johnson. 2019. “Appendices and Codebook for Evaluating Nursing Faculty’s Use of Frameworks and Standards in Information Literacy Instruction: A Multi-Institutional Study.”

Miller, Mindi, and Linda Neyer. 2016. “Mapping Information Literacy and Written Communication Outcomes in an Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: A Case Study in Librarian-Faculty Collaboration” Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice 4(1): 22-34.

Mills, Jane, Karen Francis, Margaret McLeod, and Mohammad Al-Motlaq. 2015. “Enhancing Computer Literacy and Information Retrieval Skills: A Rural and Remote Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Study.” Collegian 22 (3): 283-289.

Phelps, Sue, Loree Hyde, and Julie Planchon Wolf, eds. The Intersection: Where Evidence Based Nursing and Information Literacy Meet. Chandos Publishing, 2018.

Sullo, Elaine. 2015. “A Multiyear Curriculum-Integrated Information Literacy Program Increases the Confidence and Research Skills of Nursing Students, Although Not as Much as Expected.” Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 10 (1): 72-74.

Willson, Gloria, and Katelyn Angell. 2017. “Mapping the Association of College and Research Libraries information literacy framework and nursing professional standards onto an assessment rubric.” Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA 105(2): 150-154.

3. Adaptable Instructional Materials

Jacobs, Susan. “Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher” (web tutorial). New York University Libraries. Accessed January 19, 2022.