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Assignment Description Week 5 Assignment Consumer Health Information Website Analysis The purpose of this assignment is to apply knowledge of reliable and valid information sources to patient education in clinical nursing practice and to evaluate patient educational materials posted on the internet. The assignment for this week consists of 3-5 pages paper evaluating consumer/patient health information on the web. You will be required to find a website that is designed to provide health information to the consumer/patient and analyze it according to the criteria described below. You are required to report your analysis in a formal course paper. • • • Choose a health topic/issue in which you want to educate your patient/consumer/family about (diabetes, heart failure, teenage pregnancy, depression, etc…) and briefly describe in your paper : ➢ An explanation of your health topic/issue and why you selected it (Significance of the topic/issue selected). Find an internet source that is designed to provide information/education about your selected health topic/issue and analyze the following: ➢ describe the website (main title, information) ➢ describe the overall impression about the design of the website (organization, easiness of finding information, easiness to read, table of content/index, colors, font, does it look professional). ➢ Who is sponsoring the website? ➢ How often is the site updated? When was the site created? Was it updated recently? ➢ Does it state that the content is not medical advice? ➢ Who is the intended audience? Does the site have a clear target audience? is the information presented appropriate to the target population? How credible are the information presented: ➢ Is there any evidence that the author of the web information has some authority in the field about which she or he is providing information? Who is responsible for the information? What are the author's credentials? Is a mechanism in place for you to contact the author? ➢ Are there clues that the author/s are biased? For example, is he/she selling or promoting a product? Is the author taking a personal stand on a social/political issue or is the author being objective ? Bias is not necessarily "bad," but the connections should be clear. ➢ Does the information have a complete list of works cited, which reference credible, authoritative sources? Is the information valid and supported by evidence? Are omissions noted? Is the author's point of view objective and unbiased? ➢ Are the information accurate? any inconsistencies, inaccuracies, errors, false information, etc… ➢ Are there links that point to additional, valuable resources with minimum effort? • • • Adequacy: ➢ Over all, does the site provide consumer/patient education? is the education adequate or does the consumer have to go somewhere else to find answers about the topic? Sophistication of the information: ➢ Is this source too elementary, too technical, too advanced, or just right? ➢ Is the purpose of the site clearly stated? Does the site match its purpose? Is the site intended to educate or sell? Submit a 3-5 pages analysis paper following APA format (include title page, running head, introduction, headings, Summary paragraph, reference page, in-text citation). You need to include at least 5 reliable references of which at least 3 journal articles. For assistance in completing this assignment review chapters 17 & 18 in your McGonigle text and visit the following two websites: https://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html and http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm Grading Criteria Week 5 Assignment Consumer Health Information Website Analysis Assignment Criteria Appropriate Health related topic/issue for patient/consumer and/or family education selected. An explanation of your health topic/issue and why you selected it (Significance of the topic/issue selected). • Find an internet source that is designed to provide information/education about your selected health topic/issue and analyze the following: ➢ describe the website (main title, information) ➢ describe the overall impression about the design of the website (organization, easiness of finding information, easiness to read, table of content/index, colors, font, does it look professional). ➢ Who is sponsoring the website? ➢ How often is the site updated? When was the site created? Was it updated recently? ➢ Does it state that the content is not medical advice? ➢ Who is the intended audience? Does the site have a clear target audience? is the information presented appropriate to the target population? • How credible are the information presented: ➢ Is there any evidence that the author of the web information has some authority in the field about which she or he is providing information? Who is responsible for the information? What are the author's credentials? Is a mechanism in place for you to contact the author? ➢ Are there clues that the author/s are biased? For example, is he/she selling or promoting a product? Is the author taking a personal stand on a social/political issue or is the author being objective? Bias is not necessarily "bad," but the connections should be clear. ➢ Does the information have a complete list of works cited, which reference credible, authoritative sources? Is the information valid and supported by evidence? Are omissions noted? Is the author's point of view objective and unbiased? ➢ Are the information accurate? any inconsistencies, inaccuracies, errors, false information, etc… ➢ Are there links that point to additional, valuable resources with minimum effort? • Adequacy: ➢ Over all, does the site provide consumer/patient education? is the education adequate or does the consumer have to go somewhere else to find answers about the topic? Possible Points 5 5 30 35 7.5 Earned Points/Comments Criteria • Sophistication of the information: ➢ Is this source too elementary, too technical, too advanced, or just right? ➢ Is the purpose of the site clearly stated? Does the site match its purpose? Is the site intended to educate or sell? -References/Citation/Literature support: Support the paper with literature and use at least 5 reliable references of which at least 3 journal articles. -Provide in-text citations throughout the paper. Writing style is neat and consistent with the Herzing University “grading rubric for written assignment” as described in this syllabus. -Submit a 3-5 pages analysis paper (excluding, cover page, and reference page.) -following APA format (include title page, running head, introduction, headings, Summary paragraph, reference page, intext citation). - No abstract needed Possible Points 7.5 Earned Points/Comments 15 5 10 Total /120
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Running Head: HEALTHCARE OBSERVATION IN WEBSITE ANALYSIS

Healthcare Observation in Website Analysis
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Introduction
The use of websites in daily research has come in a long way to ease the source
documents for writing a paper. There are many websites for various scholarly and educative
purposes that come in handy when desiring concepts. In addition to the internet sources, there
come to the journal sources that refer to many topics. Of interest to the study points to healthcare
information for the benefit of customers. Healthcare information gives citizens the best chance in
analyzing the aspects of phenomena to come up with the causes, symptoms and preventive
measures.
Rationale for the topic
The health of American population continues to deteriorate based on the poor living
habits that have cropped the country over time. The bad living habits compel persons to the pills
on the diabetes menace. Lack of insulin or too much of it thereof makes it difficult to contain the
disease thus strategies must get input to save people from such topic. For example, from the
American Association of Diabetics internet, about 30 million Americans are on recovery plans
for diabetic related problems. It is for this reason that the research has attracted analysis.
Description of the website
The website has several characteristics that any user could apply for their benefit. The
first benefit brings forth the magazine that highlights all the events that associate's with the
professional body. Itinerary of activities organized so that confusion does not come up when for
example holding a diabetes walk. The other exciting features are pictorial and the testimonies of
people living with the condition, therefore, serve as a reference to the fact that the state cannot
render somebody useless in the society bu...


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