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A Flexible Model for Information Skills Education for Nursing Students

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This paper examines the underlying reasons why any information skills course for nursing students needs to be flexible, basing the objectives of such a course on the needs of the participants. The content of such a course offered at the University of Wales College of Medicine is presented in detail along with methods of delivery, timing and ideas for supporting documentation stressing how all of these are designed to be flexible. Finally, methods of evaluation and feedback are discussed.

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  1. University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Heath Park, CF4 4XN, Wales

    Jacqueline M. Barker

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  1. British Medical Association, London, UK

    Tony McSéan (Librarian) (Librarian)

  2. United Medical and Dental School of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London, UK

    John van Loo (Librarian) (Librarian)

  3. British Medical Association Library, London, UK

    Euphemia Coutinho (Administrator) (Administrator)

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Barker, J.M. (1995). A Flexible Model for Information Skills Education for Nursing Students. In: McSéan, T., van Loo, J., Coutinho, E. (eds) Health Information — New Possibilities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0093-9_28

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