{"id":230008,"date":"2018-09-17T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/nr-500-week-3-evaluating-a-website-for-credibility\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:45:13","slug":"nr-500-week-3-evaluating-a-website-for-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/nr-500-week-3-evaluating-a-website-for-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"NR 500 Week 3 Evaluating a Website for Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose\tThe purpose of this assignment is to: a) identify and evaluate a website for credibility, b) provide empirical evidence to support the website as a credible source for inclusion in a scholarly assignment, and c) present ideas in a clear, succinct, and scholarly manner\tCourse Outcomes\tThrough this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:\t(CO#1) Demonstrate effective verbal, written, and technological communication using legal and ethical standards for transferring knowledge. (PO 3)\tDue Date:\u00a0Sunday 11:59 PM MT at the end of Week\u00a03.\u00a0The Originality report from Turnitin must also be submitted at this time to the Dropbox.\tTotal Points Possible: 170\tRequirements:\t1. \ufffd Selects a health-related website with the domain indicated as .org or .gov.\t2. \ufffd Introduction section includes 6 elements:\t1. \ufffd clearly names the website\t2. \ufffd describes the purpose of the website\t3. \ufffd The search engine used to locate the website is named.\t4. \ufffd The domain of the website is identified.\t5. \ufffd The rationale for the selection of the website is discussed.\t6. \ufffd The Web Address, also known as the URL or uniform resource locator, is provided. This typically begins with &#8220;http:\/\/&#8230;&#8221;\ufffd\t3. \ufffd Provides a thorough analysis of the website, using the following five criteria: authority, information, objectivity, ease of navigation, and privacy and security policies.\t4. \ufffd Determines if the website is credible, provides a rationale for decision, and supports the decision with empirical evidence. The empirical evidence is to be a minimum of two (2) scholarly articles published within the last 5 years.\t5. \ufffd Discusses why it is important for a professional nurse to evaluate information found on the internet. Provides three (3) distinct examples of how a professional nurse could\u00a0use the information provided by the selected website.\t6. \ufffd Summarizes the content of the paper in concluding statements.\t7. \ufffd The body of the scholarly paper is to be no more than 2.5-3 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages. It must follow APA format (6th\u00a0edition).\tPreparing the paper\tAfter selecting a website with the domain of .org or .gov, evaluate the website in the body of a scholarly paper. Include a minimum of two (2) scholarly references published within the past 5 years that support how you determined the website is credible.\tOnce the paper is completed, submit the paper to turnitin that is integrated in the course dropbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to: a) identify and evaluate a website for credibility, b) provide empirical evidence to support the website as a credible source for inclusion in a scholarly assignment, and c) present ideas in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/nr-500-week-3-evaluating-a-website-for-credibility\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}