NURS 301: Medical Surgical Process: Evaluate Web Pages

"The net result is to substitute articulate hesitation for inarticulate certainty."

Justica.com Web page that documents incidents that involve false or fraudulent information.

• Authorship -- Who wrote the page?  What are the author's credentials on the subject?
• Currency -- Is there a date of publication?  Is the page dated?
• Publishing body -- Is there an organization name?  Is it suitable to the topic at hand?  Is the Web page part of an official Web site?
• Bias -- When considering who provided the information, question if there may be a bias.
• Place within the literature -- What does the author know about the discipline?  Is there a bibliography?  What kind of sources are cited?  Does the author know about prominent schools of thought about the discipline?