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How trustworthy is your information? Developing the RCN information literacy competences

How trustworthy is your information? Developing the RCN information literacy competences. Judy Atkinson, RCN LIS Manager, & Caroline Lynch, RCN Information Literacy Specialist. About the RCN.

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How trustworthy is your information? Developing the RCN information literacy competences

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  1. How trustworthy is your information? Developing the RCN information literacy competences Judy Atkinson, RCN LIS Manager, & Caroline Lynch, RCN Information Literacy Specialist

  2. About the RCN • Royal College of Nursing mission: “represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies” • RCN membership: over 400k across the 4 countries, with a library presence in each • Support to members, activists and staff • Remote delivery crucial factor

  3. Development process: why? • RCN Core competence framework • Research - was there anything appropriate to meet the need? • Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework (ANZIL)

  4. Consultation, consultation, consultation! • Consultation internally to check on the right track with RCN e-Health Board 8/08 • Testing with realistic case studies to check out relevance of statements and knowledge requirements – 10/08 • Proofing by external colleagues within nursing to address consistency & clarity of language

  5. And consultation! • External consultancy to members of RCN forums and CILIP groups via online questionnaire - 14/9-2/10/09 “Really glad to see information literacy getting some formal acknowledgement from the RCN”. • Key RCN staff commenting on competences and the case studies – 12/09-1/10 re clarity of language and balance between statements and knowledge requirements

  6. Review, review, accredit and publish! • Out to 4 external reviewers (11/2/10) • All recommendations considered by staff group and some changes agreed for inclusion • Submission to Accreditation board • Working with Communications Team for publication • Time frame: January 2007-January 2010

  7. Outcome: Revised RCN Competences • NURSING PRACTICE • Assessment and care planning to meet health and wellbeing needs (HWB2) • Promotion of health and wellbeing & prevention of adverse effects on health & wellbeing (HWB1) • Protection of health and wellbeing (HWB3) • Enablement to address health and wellbeing needs (HWB4) • Assessment and treatment planning (HWB6) • Provision of care to meet health and wellbeing needs (HWB5) • Interventions and treatments (HWB7) • Communication • Health, safety, security • Equity, diversity and rights • INNOVATION, QUALITY, IMPROVEMENT • Development and innovation (G2) • Service improvement • Quality • LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT • People development (G6) • Learning and development (G1) • KNOWLEDGE & INFORMATION • Information processing (IK1) • Information collection and analysis (IK2) • Knowledge and information resources (IK3) • MANAGING CARE & SERVICES • Procurement and commissioning (G3) • Financial Management (G4) • Services and project management (G5) • People management • Capacity and capability(G7) • Public relations & marketing (G8) Competences for Nursing (RCN Competence framework clustering KSF dimensions to reflect nursing’s contribution)

  8. Outcome: Supporting Principles of Nursing Practice

  9. How trustworthy is your information?

  10. The content development process

  11. Case studies

  12. Future plans • Develop more case studies • Reworking our ‘Learning, guides and training’ web pages

  13. How will we use the competences in practice? • Information management responsibilities written into Representatives’ role descriptors (“JDs” for reps) • Developed IKM practice standard for reps related to role descriptors • IL needs survey for RCN members based on the competences informing:

  14. How will we use the competences in practice? • Development programme for RCN Activists • Work with RCN regions to deliver local programmes/events – webinars • Virtual Enquiry Service

  15. Providing support to: • Future Officer Programme • Support RCN Direct Advisers • Reinforced by use of KPIs around using evidence (2011-12) • IKM Staff development tool • Reinforcing within the IKM team structure

  16. How might you use them in practice? • Do you have any questions for us? • What seemed familiar? • What was new to you? • Who could use these resources and how?

  17. ‘Having access to the latest research in itself does not constitute evidence-based practice. It is the appropriate use of this information for the individual patient and individual context that marks the transition from evidence being simply information to being best practice.’Gordon J and Watts C (2011)

  18. Our contact details • Judy Atkinson Email: judy.atkinson@rcn.org.uk Tel: 0207 647 3856 • Caroline Lynch Email: caroline.lynch@rcn.org.uk Tel: 0207 647 3611

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