Information Literacy Scavenger Boost Employee Engagement

The year is 2022, and you are the Chief Nursing Officer at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. Congrats! You are making big bucks.

But there is a problem: your nurses are stressed out. And, as your job responsibilities include evaluating and improving working conditions for your nursing staff, you’ve got to implement a plan to help your nurses ease some of their stress so that the excellent trauma care your hospital is known for can continue. So, you turn to the research on nursing and stress to figure out some options for your staff.

For this assignment, you should begin researching your topic (as suggested by the hypothetical prompt above). You need to provide a list of sources that includes no more than 4 websites (using Google) and at least 8 scholarly and/or peer-reviewed texts from the library database (at least 5 of those 8 source must be peer-reviewed journal articles). Total, you need at least 10 sources.

Your assignment is to provide a (partially annotated) reference list of those (at least) 10 sources.

For websites, include the reference list entry, including the URL, as well as 2-4 sentences that discuss the accuracy, authority, objectivity, and timeliness of the source.

For the scholarly and/or peer-reviewed articles/chapters/books from the library database, you need only provide the reference list entry.

Finally, although you need not read all these sources before submitting this assignment, be mindful to choose sources that you might actually be interested to read and able to comprehend. Consider the article/chapter length and degree of specialization in the language of the field (if you cannot understand the majority of the words on the first page, it might be too specialized).

Grading Rubric

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Your assignment will be graded upon the following criteria:

	Satisfactory (10 points)	Needs Improvement (7 Points)	Needs Improvement (5 Points)
Criteria	Includes at least 10 sources; includes at least 8 scholarly articles from the NSC library database, of which 5 are peer-reviewed journal articles; includes at least 2 websites; includes explanation on accuracy, authority, objectivity, and timeliness for websites	Includes at least 8 sources; includes at least 6 scholarly articles from the NSC library database, of which 3 are peer-reviewed journal articles; includes at least 2 websites; includes explanation on accuracy, authority, objectivity, and timeliness for websites	Includes at least 5 sources; includes at least 3 scholarly articles from the NSC library database, of which at least 2 are peer-reviewed journal articles; includes at least 2 websites; may lack appropriate explanation on accuracy, authority, objectivity, and timeliness for websites