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NurseONE is an interactive, web-based resource that provides nurses and nursing students with access to reliable evidence-based resources to help them make informed decisions. It is available, at no cost to the individual nurse, to all CNA members, members of colleges and associations with which NurseONE has an agreement and members of the Canadian Nursing Students' Association.
In 2007, CNA and the college of nursing at the University of Saskatchewan began a research project to evaluate the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and NurseONE by students enrolled in the Issues in Nursing course in the Nursing Education Program of Saskatchewan at the Regina site. The project objectives are to assess the uptake of information from NurseONE and ICT in the nursing students' learning, the appropriateness of NurseONE and ICT for new practitioners in clinical practice, the extent to which nursing students influence preceptors in the use of NurseONE and ICT during their practicums and the potential use of NurseONE and ICT in academic and clinical settings.
Ethics approval was obtained from the Research Ethics Board of the University of Saskatchewan. During the first class in the fall 2007 and...