This elective course explores internet resources available which involve nursing and health care. The student will practice in the laboratory setting and submit assignments which reflect an ability to research topics on the internet related to health and nursing.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe Internet services
2. Describe components of Web addresses
3. Use search engines to find information on specific health and nursing topics
4. Find and demonstrate ability to list and read messages in newsgroups and listservs related to health
5. Send, read, forward, reply, save, and print e-mail messages
6. Connect to a medical library on the internet and use publicly assessable resources
7. Use Webster Library's Passports to search a variety of sources on health related topics
8. Discuss issues related to evaluation of Web sites and the information they contain.
9. Demonstrate citation of sources from the internet