Information Literacy (2 cr)
Code: 7K00GH76-3003
General information
- Enrolment period
- 27.05.2025 - 11.08.2025
- Registration for the implementation has begun.
- Timing
- 04.08.2025 - 12.10.2025
- The implementation has not yet started.
- Credits
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Nursing
- Campus
- TAMK Main Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Nursing
- Teachers
- Lotta Markkula
- Sanna-Mari Kämäräinen
- Päivi Lukin
- Person in charge
- Sanna Eironen
- Course
- 7K00GH76
Objectives (course unit)
The course prepares students for reading, evaluating and utilising scientific information in nursing.
After completing the course, the student
• Is able to identify, search, evaluate and utilise health care information sources.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Knows evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Content (course unit)
• Scientific literacy and source criticism
• Evidence-based practice in nursing
• Clinical guidelines in health care
• Structured data search and key health care databases
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
Pass: The student
• Knows basics of the structured data search.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Can assess the reliability of the searched information.
• Identifies evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Fail: The student
• Does not know basics of the structured data search.
• Does not understand the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Cannot assess the reliability of the searched information.
• Does not identify evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Assessment scale
0-5
Teaching methods
Lähiopetus.
Toteutussuunnitelma päivittyy ennen opintojakson orientaatiotuntia.