Self-Paced Tutorials to Support Evidence-Based Practice and Information Literacy in Online Health Sciences Education

Information literacy instruction for evidence-based practice in health sciences education often centers around literature review assignments in research courses. Librarians may have limited opportunities to teach in clinical courses where evidence-based practice is centered around on-the-job clinical practice. Tools like LibWizard allow librarians to create asynchronous tutorials that center around information literacy for clinical scenarios and include hands-on practice and real-time feedback. In this paper, the author, a health sciences librarian, summarizes the development, implementation, and assessment of a self-paced, interactive information literacy tutorial to support evidence-based practice in two clinical courses in an online graduate nursing program.