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Nursing Formatics Assignment
Nursing Formatics Assignment
One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of interest to you.
To prepare:
Select a health issue of interest to you.
Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue.
Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic.
Review the two health literacy websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.
To complete:
Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected.
Include a cover page.
Include an introduction that provides:
An explanation of your issue and why you selected it
A description of the audience you are addressing
In the handout itself:
Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.
Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.). Nursing Formatics Assignment.
Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.
- Explain why the article made an important contribution to the field.
- Briefly summarize the state of research prior to the article and how the article built off of that foundation and propelled the field forward in a meaningful way. Use class readings or outside sources to support your argument.
- Argue that the article’s findings are suspect and should be interpreted with caution.
- Point out some limitations of the author’s methods or logic using class readings or outside sources to support your claims.
- Propose a follow-up study for the research presented.
- No study is perfect. Describe a follow-up study the authors could do to improve upon the one they presented in the article. Use class readings or outside sources to support your suggestion.