Finding and Using Information: A Guide for Nursing, Health and Social Care (Essentials) - Brossura

Bedford, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1914962265 ISBN 13: 9781914962264

Casa editrice: Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2025

Riassunto

Finding and Using Information is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their information skills. Starting with a self-assessment checklist and through clear explanations, examples and activities, the book will help you to develop a toolkit for dealing with information throughout your studies and beyond. You will learn:

• How to identify what information you need and how to find the best sources
• About browsing the web and how to work effectively with web-based information tools
• How to identify and evaluate trustworthy sources of information
• Ways of managing and keeping track of the information you find so that you can retrieve it when you need it
• About the importance of acknowledging, citing and referencing information
• How to use academic databases
• How to plan and carry out an advanced literature search

Written by a highly experienced learning and research librarian, this book will help you to develop the information skills you need for your studies and to achieve the standards of proficiency required to practise your health and care profession effectively.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Bedford is a Learning and Research Librarian at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), with 14 years of experience supporting students on a wide variety of courses. During this time, he has worked with students and staff from over 20 different medical, health and social care professions on courses taught by the Universities of Greenwich and Kent as well as CCCU. He has a particular interest in how people engage emotionally with information and with the process of selecting trustworthy sources to use in study and in life. David has written journal articles and guest posts on national blogs, and has also written for the theatre. In June 2020, he was awarded the Professional Services University Teaching Excellence Award by CCCU for his work supporting information and digital literacies, including tackling the issue of library anxiety among students. David is a member of CILIP (the library and information association) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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During your studies, you will use many sources of information. There will be the information you learn through lectures, seminars, group work and placements. But you will also be required to do your own research outside of scheduled teaching hours. This may involve watching or listening, but will most frequently involve reading. Sometimes, you will be directed to read specific sources of information. More often, particularly later into your course, you will be expected to seek out and select your own sources. Before you can do this effectively, you need to know what sorts of information are out there for you to use. And before you can start finding information for any specific purpose, you need to know what you are looking for.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1914962265
• ISBN 13: 9781914962264
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile