Hearing from Working Nurses: Incorporating Real-World Knowledge Practices Into the Framework to Better Instruct Tomorrow’s Healthcare Professionals

Authors

Anne R. Diekema, Southern Utah University
Elizabeth (Betsy) S. Hopkins, Brigham Young UniversityFollow
Britt Fagerheim, Utah State UniversityFollow
Brandon Patterson, University of UtahFollow
Nena Schvaneveldt, University of Utah

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework

Editor

Malia Willey, Scott P. Libson

Publisher

Association of College and Research Libraries

Publication Date

2025

First Page

271

Last Page

280

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.

Abstract

There is a certain duality to the role of librarians in higher education as the job requires preparing students for their current academic work, such as doing research for writing papers, while at the same time preparing students for their future professional information work.¹ Librarians seeking guidance on teaching information literacy more comprehensively are left to study the professional standards of the targeted professional group,² and find or carry out research on these practitioners.³ Synthesizing and translating these findings into instructional approaches while staying true to existing information literacy standards, however, can be challenging.⁴ In this chapter we demonstrate how the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,⁵ the guiding document for information literacy curriculum in academia, has enough flexibility to prepare nursing students for both academic and professional information practices.

Comments

Link to the whole ALA Book: https://alastore.ala.org/teaching-information-literacy-discipline-using-and-creating-adaptations-framework

Recommended Citation

Diekema, A. R., Hopkins, E. S., Fagerheim, B. A., Patterson, B., & Schvaneveldt, N. (In press). Hearing from working nurses: Incorporating real-world knowledge practices into the ACRL Framework to better instruct tomorrow's healthcare professionals. In: S. P. Libson & M. Wiley (Eds.), Teaching information literacy by discipline: Using and creating adaptations of the Framework. Association of College and Research Libraries.