Web-Based Healthcare Information Assessment

5-2 Web-Based Healthcare Information Assessment

Instructions
The web-based healthcare information assessment affords the opportunity to assess healthcare education on the internet. As future professional nurses, it is imperative you provide your clients with appropriate recommendations for credible health information on the internet.

The goal of this assessment is for you to evaluate a website of your choosing (e.g., the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes Association) following the HONcode criteria (Health on the Net) available in this module’s Reading and Resources folder.

For additional details, please refer to the Website Assessment Guidelines and Rubric document.

Reading and Resources
Textbook: Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Chapters 14 and 16

Website: The HON Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites (HONcode)
This is the HON Code of Conduct Medical and Health (HONcode) website that lists the eight HON criteria and gives a definition for each criterion.

This resource will help you complete the web-based healthcare information assessment due in this module.

PDF: When the Quality of Health Information Matters
In this module, you will be asked to review and evaluate a website using the Health on the Net (HON) criteria. This article gives the definition of Health on the Net, the eight criteria, and several examples of websites with and without established HoN criteria.

This resource will help you complete the web-based healthcare information assessment due in this module.