Wednesday, October 2, 2013

If You Type It In, What Will You Find?


     My professor also created two group activities for the class to participate in. In both activities, we were asked to search online what information we could find on hand washing standards as well as different countries guidelines to doing breast self examinations. The point of these activities was to compare what search results we came across. Before this class I did not know to what extent Google tailored our results. The video we saw in class, TED, Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”, shows us how Google even looks at what type of computer we are on, the browser we are using and our location to determine what links we come across. This really shocked me and has made me consider the fact that not everyone stumbles upon the same information online.

Why don’t you try this activity and compare with your friends. Do you both land on the same links? 


     I took this screenshot of an entry I found on an RN Journal website, where licensed nurses, educators, and nursing students can post articles that they see may be of interest to the nursing community. The article I came across is about nursing research and in this screen shot I highlighted the sentences that stood out to me. We as nurses spend a lot of time with our patients and throughout this time we learn the factors that are or will affect their health. When doing nursing research, we incorporate these aspects of the client in order to come to an appropriate and best solution.
Here’s the full link to their website, check it out and if you find any interesting articles why not post them!



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