Searching the Web | consumer health information
Nurses, in their role as health educators, find themselves confronted with consumers who have become more proactive about retrieving their own information and are more involved about their own care.
Nurses are "physically present in more settings than any other health care worker" and need to respond to more informed consumers (National League for Nursing, 1997.)*
* National League for Nursing. (April 1997). Final Report Commission on a Workforce for a Restructured Health Care System. Retrieved April 6, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nln.org/infrest2.htm
Links
-
The Medical Library Associations Top Ten Recommended meta sites for consumers found at:
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html -
Noah: New York Online Access to Health:
http://www.noah-health.org/ -
Web Sites You Can Trust (links to reviewed health web sites):
caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html - Medlineplus, for both consumers and health professionals, brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and
health-related organizations. http://medlineplus.gov/
