Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500 Foundational Concepts and Applications January 17‚ 2012 Evaluating a Website for Credibility In order to search for the reputable scholarly website one must remember two basic principles: not every website has scholarly related data and not all the data has empirical foundation. The first intention of going to www.google.com will leave one with 1000’s of non-specific results. "Google Scholar" website (http://scholar.google.com)‚ on the other hand
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important for health educators and clinicians to be able to evaluate the websites being used by themselves and their patients for appropriateness of the website. Today‚ I am going to critique and evaluate the website CTSNet.org for credibility. CTSNET.org is operated by CTSNet‚ Inc. who is a non-profit organization which is jointly created by a four different participating thoracic surgeon organizations. This website is governed by a Board of Directors which consists of medical professionals
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Evaluating CMS.gov Website for Credibility Medicare and Medicaid information can be overwhelming and confusing to both the consumer and the healthcare professional. The information highway known as the World Wide Web (WWW) can provide the answers to questions about these government benefits‚ but getting clear‚ informative and accurate knowledge can be overwhelming. O’Sullivan (2011) identified the WWW as “a primary repository for health information for the medically naïve yet technically savvy
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Website Credibility Credible Websites vs. Non-credible Websites Gathering information for academic purposes is very different nowadays. We not only have libraries to do research‚ we now have the Internet. There are numerous sources we can gather information from while searching the Internet‚ but we have to be careful in choosing a site that has credibility. A credible website is one that will have verifiable facts and credible editors who approve the validity of the facts (also known as gatekeepers);
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time consuming‚ there has been a many time even myself have fallen victim to this. The credibility of source is based on the subject‚ audience‚ source of publication‚ and documentation of supporting evidence. Today we have many domains as in .edu - education sites .gov - government sites .org - organization sites .com - commercial sites .net - network infrastructures. There are also many different types of websites for example‚ Personal sites‚ Special interest sites‚ Professional sites‚ News and Journalistic
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Evaluating a Website for Credibility Rebekah Reed Chamberlain College of Nursing NR500: Foundation Concepts and Applications Fall 2012 Evaluating a Website for Credibility With so many health-related websites on the internet it was hard to choose one. I settled on one that is personal to me and that I do a lot of teaching on with patients. I chose American Diabetes Association at www.diabetes.org. This website is found by searching any of the search engines. This website has both a consumers
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of all sources—including websites. There are five major areas in which websites are evaluated: 1) Authority‚ 2) Accuracy‚ 3) Objectivity‚ 4) Currency‚ and 5) Coverage (GCU‚ n.d.). This paper evaluates two websites which will be used in this writer’s research in upcoming months: 1) http://www.asperger-institute.com/‚ and 2) http://www.yourlittleprofessor.com/adhd.html. The Websites For the purposes of this assignment and future research‚ this writer chose two websites which posted information
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Evaluation of Website Credibility Evaluation of Website Credibility Familydoctor.org is a website that offers information on a health related topics and wellness. This website has a domain of .org which means it is operated by an organization. The main purpose of this website is to provide families with information on health related topics and offer wellness information that will benefit all members of the family. This website was chosen based on the
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Evaluating Media for Credibility CRT205 September 9‚ 2012 Anna S. Joy Evaluating Media for Credibility The first television news program that I watched was Fox News‚ channel 118 on Wednesday September 5‚ 2012. I watched from 4:30PM until 5:00PM. I joined the broadcast during the last half hour of the Your World with Neil Cavuto show. He was broadcasting live from the Democratic National Convention. Guests and news clips appeared in quick succession during the time that I
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Evaluating Media for Credibility CRT205 February 2‚ 2014 Shellisa Multrie Evaluating Media for Credibility The two programs that I chose to compare are Dateline and 60 Minutes. These two programs air at the same time on Sunday nights and are very similar in the stories that they choose to air. They are rivaling networks competing for the attention of the public for the same 6 o’clock spot. A lot of the stories that Dateline and 60 Minutes both air are things such as murder mysteries that haven’t
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