Information Literacy and Leadership

Information Literacy and Leadership Name Institutional Affiliation Information Literacy and Leadership Briefly discuss why, as a nurse leader, you need to be sure of the information you disseminate to patients, their families, and your staff Information integrity is important in any field but even more so in the health sector. This is because the information being passed across in most cases is sensitive information. As a nurse leader, it is important that the information communicated is clear and concise and disseminated in a way that cannot be misunderstood. Patients and their families, in most cases, are very inquisitive about their health and they demand information about the illness they are suffering. In other cases, they even have myths and beliefs which they would require you to respond to. However, before responding to any question, it is important that the nurse leader is very sure about the information. Patients, their families, and even junior nurses tend to believe any information given to them by the nurse leader. If the information happens to be misleading, patients could use the information without knowing that it is not correct. Also, the junior nurses and other staff members could also take the information and use it inappropriately just because the nurse leader said so. Patients and their families tend to believe and trust everything they are told by medical professionals. If they came to find out that this information was falsified, they could no longer have trust in their medical professionals. Furthermore, it is important that the lead nurse information integrity and refrain from talking about or advising on issues he/she is not sure about. It is always better to confirm first than to later realize that the information given to a patient was wrong. Explain how you can determine authoritative sources (those that are reliable and credible) that you retrieve from the Internet. How can you determine if the website is credible? In the current information and technology age, anyone can create a website and post information on the website without any regulations. However, most online sources are not reliable. In most cases, the information given in the websites could be false and misleading. There are several ways through which one can determine the credibility of the source. One of the ways to find out whether a website is credible is by checking the author information. Most credible websites provide author information because they are sure about the content on the website, and the author is certain of himself to put his name behind his work. It is advisable to take a step further and research on the author. Are they qualified enough to write about the particular topic they are talking about? If not, the website could lack credibility. Another indicator of whether a website is credible is the date or currency. A website with a date allows one to determine whether the content is current enough to supply them with the information needed. Most websites that lack date are mostly unreliable. In most educational information, for example, medicine, sources are provided. One should check if the website they retrieve information from has sources or not. If the website article does not have any sources, then the information...