Kidshealth. Org: Website Analysis
KidsHealth.org: An evaluation
Jessica FM Fugate
Chamberlain College of Nursing
KidsHealth.org: An Evaluation
In today’s electronics-heavy society, it is easy for a researcher, whether a healthcare professional or a concerned parent, to become inundated with health information that may or may not be legitimate. It is important, therefore, to review the resources that are discovered to determine their validity. The website chosen as the subject of this paper is KidsHealth.org.
KidsHealth is a non-profit resource for parents, children, teens, and primary school educators, with thousands of articles, interactive games, and age-appropriate materials to further knowledge of children’s health, from prenatal to adulthood (KidsHealth, …show more content…
The site was chosen for its relevancy to the researcher’s interests and its adherence to the requirements of this assignment. The website provides age-appropriate and education-level appropriate resources for families and professionals.
Five Criteria for Analysis of Web Sources
Assessing a website for validity consists of five steps: “authority, information, objectivity, ease of navigation, and privacy and security policies” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2014). On assessing the validity of KidsHealth, the results are as follows.
Authority: the site is produced by the Nemours Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides education and resources for families, healthcare professionals, and educators of children. The Foundation itself has partnered with numerous children’s hospitals across the United States to bring forward the information in the KidsHealth site, as well as with organizations such as United Way, Aetna, United Healthcare, Merck, Lilly, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, across many spectrums of healthcare and …show more content…
Nursing professionals should avoid websites that do not measure up to these standards, as it is simple to unwittingly be misled or mislead others with substandard information.
The KidsHealth website is felt to sufficiently adhere to these standards and can be considered an accurate and credible web source for use in one’s professional nursing practice. It has a wealth of unbiased information that is appropriate for use by healthcare professionals and for dissemination to patients and
Jessica FM Fugate
Chamberlain College of Nursing
KidsHealth.org: An Evaluation
In today’s electronics-heavy society, it is easy for a researcher, whether a healthcare professional or a concerned parent, to become inundated with health information that may or may not be legitimate. It is important, therefore, to review the resources that are discovered to determine their validity. The website chosen as the subject of this paper is KidsHealth.org.
KidsHealth is a non-profit resource for parents, children, teens, and primary school educators, with thousands of articles, interactive games, and age-appropriate materials to further knowledge of children’s health, from prenatal to adulthood (KidsHealth, …show more content…
The site was chosen for its relevancy to the researcher’s interests and its adherence to the requirements of this assignment. The website provides age-appropriate and education-level appropriate resources for families and professionals.
Five Criteria for Analysis of Web Sources
Assessing a website for validity consists of five steps: “authority, information, objectivity, ease of navigation, and privacy and security policies” (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2014). On assessing the validity of KidsHealth, the results are as follows.
Authority: the site is produced by the Nemours Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides education and resources for families, healthcare professionals, and educators of children. The Foundation itself has partnered with numerous children’s hospitals across the United States to bring forward the information in the KidsHealth site, as well as with organizations such as United Way, Aetna, United Healthcare, Merck, Lilly, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, across many spectrums of healthcare and …show more content…
Nursing professionals should avoid websites that do not measure up to these standards, as it is simple to unwittingly be misled or mislead others with substandard information.
The KidsHealth website is felt to sufficiently adhere to these standards and can be considered an accurate and credible web source for use in one’s professional nursing practice. It has a wealth of unbiased information that is appropriate for use by healthcare professionals and for dissemination to patients and