Herzing NU525 Unit 5 Assignment Latest 2019 March Question # 00598808 Course Code : NU525 Subject: Health Care Due on: 03/05/2019 Posted On: 03/05/2019 09:29 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.5/5

Assignment Description

Week 5 Assignment

Consumer Health Information Website Analysis

The purpose of this assignment is to apply knowledge of
reliable and valid information sources to patient education in clinical nursing
practice and to evaluate patient educational materials posted on the internet.

The assignment for this week consists of 3-5 pages paper
evaluating consumer/patient health information on the web. You will be required
to find a website that is designed to provide health information to the
consumer/patient and analyze it according to the criteria described below. You
are required to report your analysis in a formal course paper.

• Choose a
health topic/issue in which you want to educate your patient/consumer/family
about (diabetes, heart failure, teenage pregnancy, depression, etc…) and
briefly describe in your paper :

? An
explanation of your health topic/issue and why you selected it
(Significance of the topic/issue selected).

• Find an
internet source that is designed to provide information/education about your
selected health topic/issue and analyze the following:

? describe
the website (main title, information)

? describe
the overall impression about the design of the website (organization, easiness
of finding information, easiness to read, table of content/index, colors, font,
does it look professional).

? Who
is sponsoring the website?

? How
often is the site updated? When was the site created? Was it updated recently?

? Does
it state that the content is not medical advice?

? Who
is the intended audience? Does the site have a clear target audience? is the
information presented appropriate to the target population?

• How
credible are the information presented:

? Is
there any evidence that the author of the web information has some authority in
the field about which she or he is providing information? Who is responsible
for the information? What are the author’s credentials? Is a mechanism
in place for you to contact the author?

? Are
there clues that the author/s are biased? For example, is he/she selling or
promoting a product? Is the author taking a personal stand on a social/political
issue or is the author being objective ? Bias is not necessarily
“bad,” but the connections should be clear.

? Does
the information have a complete list of works cited, which reference credible,
authoritative sources? Is the information valid and supported by
evidence? Are omissions noted? Is the author’s point of view objective and
unbiased?

? Are
the information accurate? any inconsistencies, inaccuracies, errors, false
information, etc…

? Are
there links that point to additional, valuable resources with minimum
effort?

• Adequacy:

? Over
all, does the site provide consumer/patient education? is the education
adequate or does the consumer have to go somewhere else to find answers about
the topic?

• Sophistication
of the information:

? Is
this source too elementary, too technical, too advanced, or just right?

? Is
the purpose of the site clearly stated? Does the site match its purpose? Is the
site intended to educate or sell?

• Submit a
3-5 pages analysis paper following APA format (include title page, running
head, introduction, headings, Summary paragraph, reference page, in-text
citation). You need to include at least 5 reliablereferences of which at least
3 journal articles.

For assistance in completing this assignment review chapters
17 & 18 in your McGonigle text and visit the following two websites:
https://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
and http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm?