TRCC Associate Degree in Nursing Program

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Creating and Implementing a Nursing Information
Literacy Program at TRCC
NELIG Annual Meeting, June 11 2004 Linda
Perfetto MS, APRN, BC - Interim Director,
Nursing/AH Lillian Rafeldt MA, RN Assistant
Professor of Nursing Judith Snayd MSN, RN -
Professor of Nursing Mary Browning MA, RN
Professor of Nursing Mona Florea MLS
Reference/Instruction Librarian
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TRCC Associate Degree in Nursing Program

• Prepares students to enter the profession as
  Registered Nurses
• Curriculum is built on pertinent social and
  biological sciences
• Core nursing courses include classroom, college
  laboratory, and clinical laboratory experiences

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Nursing - Associate in Science Degree Program
Outcomes

• The program prepares students to become
• Providers of care
• Managers of care
• Members within the discipline of Nursing

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TRCC Nursing Student Population

• Characteristics
• Age range from 19 to 52 (average being 31)
• Many have contact with information technology for
  the first time
• Most have multiple life responsibilities
• Need to be reoriented to academia and current
  research methods

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Nursing Information Literacy Program Goals

• Know core print and online nursing information
  resources and their organization
• Construct information search strategies and
  select effective search methods and techniques
• Evaluate information quality
• Use information ethically, efficiently, and
  responsibly

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Nursing Information Literacy Program Components

• Information literacy activities
• Nursing Information Gateway
• Information competencies

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Nursing Information Literacy Activities

• Physical Library tour
• Online Library tour
• Health and medical-related online databases
  search demonstrations

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Nursing 108, 115, and 116 Nursing Information
Gateway

• Print nursing information resources
• Online nursing information resources
• Research guides
• Citation style guides

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Nursing 108, 115, and 116 Information Competencies

• Identify the organization of physical and online
  Library collections
• Use Library services such as reference,
  instruction, research support, and interlibrary
  loan
• Articulate information needs and locate local and
  remote information resources

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Nursing 108, 115, and 116 Information
Competencies (continuation)

• Construct effective search strategies and use
  search methods such as subject, title, author,
  keyword, and Boolean operators
• Evaluate information by using specific criteria
  accuracy, authority, currency, and
  comprehensiveness
• Use information ethically, efficiently, and
  responsibly

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Nursing 108 Program Evaluation

• Student evaluation of Library activities

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Nursing 108 Program Evaluation

• Student perception The Nursing Information
  Gateway helped me complete my assignments

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Nursing 108 Program Evaluation

• Information competencies
• Library assignment grades

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Nursing 115 Program Evaluation

• Student evaluation of Library activities

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Nursing 116 Program Evaluation

• Student perception The Nursing Information
  Gateway helped me complete my assignments

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Nursing 116 Program Evaluation

• Information competencies
• Patient case studies grades

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Ideas for the future

• Create library assignment for Nursing 115
• Continue develop resources during academic school
  year 04-05 with this cohort
• Student support and retention
• Foster lifelong learning
• Promote student individual appointments with the
  librarian
• Establish a library support component for Web/CT
  nursing courses (i.e., virtual office hours and
  online live reference)

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References

• Association of College and Research Libraries.
  (2000). Information literacy competency standards
  for higher education. Chicago, IL Author.
• Grassing, E. S. Kaplowitz, J. R. (2001).
  Information literacy instruction Theory and
  practice.New York Neal-Schuman Publishers.
• MacDonald, M. C., Rathemacher, A. J. Burkhardt,
  J. M. (2000). Challenges in building an
  incremental, multi-year information literacy
  plan. Reference Services Review, 28(3), 240-247.
• Wallace, M. C., Shorten, A., Crookes, P. A.,
  McGurk, C., Brewer, C. (1999). Integrating
  Information literacies into an undergraduate
  nursing programme. Nurse Education Today, 19,
  136-141.
• Fox, L. M., Richter, J. M., White, N. E.
  (1996). A multidimensional evaluation of a
  nursing information-literacy program. Bulletin of
  the Medical Library Association, 84(2), 182-190.

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Contact Information and URL

• Linda Perfetto (Interim Director of Nursing)
  lperfetto_at_trcc.commnet.edu
• Lillian Rafeldt (Associate Professor of Nursing)
  lrafeldt_at_trcc.commnet.edu
• Mona Florea (Reference/Instruction Librarian)
  mflorea_at_trcc.commnet.edu
• TRCC Nursing Information Gateway
• Library TRCC http//www.trcc.commnet.edu/library/
  guides/Resources/Resource_guides/Nursing_2.htm
• TRCC Nursing web site http//www.trcc.commnet.edu
  /Prog_Study/Allied_Health/main20nursing20resourc
  es20(areas).htm

Linda Perfetto (Interim Director of Nursing)
lperfetto_at_trcc.commnet.edu Lillian Rafeldt
(Associate Professor of Nursing)
lrafeldt_at_trcc.commnet.edu Mona Florea
(Reference/Instruction Librarian)
mflorea_at_trcc.commnet.edu