Nursing Students' Perceived Learning from a Digital Health Assignment as Part of the Nursing Care for the Childbearing Family Course.

To increase the competency of undergraduate nursing students to find and evaluate online health information, a Digital Health Assignment was created for second year nursing students. Facebook was used as the assignment platform. Students chose and appraised social media postings regarding topics of interest for expecting families.

Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Abilities in Critically Identifying and Evaluating the Quality of Online Health Information.

Both the Internet and social media have become important tools that patients and health professionals, including health professional students, use to obtain information and support their decision-making surrounding health care. Students in the health sciences require increased competence to select, appraise, and use online sources to adequately educate and support patients and advocate for patient needs and best practices. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if second year nursing students have the ability to critically identify and evaluate the quality of online health information through comparisons between student and expert assessments of selected online health information postings using an adapted Trust in Online Health Information scale.

Discourses of spirituality and leadership in nursing: a mixed methods analysis.

Aim: To explore nursing discourses of spirituality and leadership.

Background: Global migration has brought unprecedented plurality to modern societies, and spirituality and religion into the purview of nurse leaders.

Method: An innovative mixed methods approach, including a literature review, qualitative research and philosophic analysis, was utilized to examine discourses of spirituality in contexts of nursing leadership.

Applying a new conceptual framework to evaluate tuberculosis surveillance and action performance and measure the costs, Hillsborough County, Florida, 2002.

Purpose: Tuberculosis (TB) elimination is an important US public health goal and improving the performance of TB surveillance and action and reducing the costs will help achieve it. But, there exists the need to better evaluate the performance and measure the costs.

Methods: We pilot tested an evaluation strategy in Hillsborough County, Florida using a conceptual framework of TB surveillance and action with eight core and four support activities.