Integrating information literacies into an undergraduate nursing programme

The development of support for a more research-based approach to care has c reated the imperative for nursing education to tackle the issue of informat ion literacy. Information literacy means the ability to locate, evaluate an d apply information in critical thinking and problem solving. This paper ou tlines and provides a rationale for a curriculum-integrated information lit eracy programme, implemented in the pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing co urse at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. It also describes a m ultidimensional evaluation process for determining nursing students' growth in cognitive and affective domains. Results of the programme evaluation wi ll be featured in a future paper.