Nursing Writing Skills Online SelfPaced Tutorial

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Nursing Writing Skills Online Self-Paced
Tutorial

• Elizabeth Rash
• Diane Wink
• Patricia Robinson
• College of Nursing

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Information Fluency

• The ability to gather, evaluate and use
  information.
• The College of Nursing
• Develop IF framework to facilitate evidence-based
  practice in all degree programs.

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IF Objectives

• Students will be able to find and discern valid
  and reliable sources of information to guide
  their professional practice
• Students will be able to develop professional
  written communication skills

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IF Expectation

• Students will have the necessary IF skills when
  they begin undergraduate and graduate nursing
  courses so that they may focus on learning
  specific and complex nursing content

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IF Reality

• Nursing students at both the undergraduate and
  graduate levels have an IF knowledge deficit

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IF Challenges

• There is a need to assure that students are
  writing across the curriculum in order to hone
  their IF skills
• Nursing courses are content laden and there is
  little time to develop students IF skills

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IF Challenges

• Development of IF skills can be exhausting and
  discouraging for both students and instructors
  when there is a competing need to focus on
  nursing skills and the development of IF skills
• Student frustrations are increased when
  instructors IF requirements are inconsistent

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IF Solution

• Provide an IF resource for both students and
  instructors
• meets the needs of students at varying IF skill
  levels
• does not compete with nursing content time
• provides a consistent IF message to students and
  faculty

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Nursing Writing Skills Online Self-Paced
Tutorial

• Can be used as a course requirement, as a course
  resource, or as needed for student IF skills
  remediation
• self-paced to reduce student stress and remains
  available to students throughout their enrollment
  in nursing programs
• self-registration web site which reduces
  instructor web site management time

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Tutorial Objectives

• Apply  APA publication style in writing and
  citing resources
• Differentiate between correct and incorrect
  documentation that results in plagiarism.
• Correctly submit a document to turnitin.com
• Systematically evaluate the credibility and
  validity of Internet sites
• Understand the meaning of evidence-based when
  evaluating research sources

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Modules
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APA Writing Style

• Citation and reference guides
• Paper formatting with examples
• APA FAQs
• Links to the UCF Writing Center
• An APA assessment quiz

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Plagiarism

• When and what to quote or paraphrase
• Tips on avoiding plagiarism
• Turnitin.com instructional video and application
  exercise

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Evidence Based Practice

• Defining the term
• Exploring the concept
• Evaluating available resources
• Applying it in the academic and practice settings

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Evaluating Internet Sites

• A variety of tools to evaluate the reliability
  and validity of internet sources

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Links

• UCF Writing Center
• Turnitin.com
• Online dictionary and thesaurus
• Library instructional videos
• Student orientation to web courses
• Online librarian discussion resource section

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Current Status

• Unable to allow for self-registration in new web
  course platform
• Changed to old webct format
• Envision launch in Summer 2007

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Outcome Assessment

• Evaluate student IF improvements derived from
  tutorial
• Use of qualitative and quantitative student
  outcomes (IE) and faculty perceptions
• Consider IRB submission to evaluate pre and
  post-module competencies

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?s

• Thank You