Updating the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List: Utilizing Expert Knowledge and Peer Review Processes to Create a Reproducible Resource and Workflow

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM CT

Presenter and Author(s)

Rebecca Raszewski, AHIP

Associate Professor & Information Services & Liaison Librarian
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Slides

Author(s)

RS

Rachel Keiko Stark, AHIP

Health Sciences Librarian
Research and Instruction
Sacramento, California

Presenter and Author(s)

RL

Rachel C. Lerner, MSLS, AHIP

Reference & Instruction Librarian
Edward & Barbara Netter Library / Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Connecticut

Author(s)

KA

Karen Alcorn

Reference and Instruction Librarian
Library and Learning Resources, MCPHS University
CD

Carolyn C. Dennison, MA, MLIS, AHIP

Librarian IV
University of Hawaii at Manoa Library

Presenter and Author(s)

Alissa Fial

Associate Librarian, Research and Instruction Services
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Author(s)

Diane Kearney, AHIP

Lead Medical Librarian
Northern Virginia Community College, Medical Education Campus Library
Springfield, Virginia
SW

Sarah Wade, MLS, AHIP

Assistant Medical Librarian
Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Lillington, North Carolina

Background: The Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN) Essential Resources list has been through many iterations, from its initial publication in 1966 to its last published edition in 2012 (26th). An MLA NAHRS caucus subgroup, making the decision to continue where the dissolved ICIRN left off, aims to reimagine the list. This update includes designing a new online interface, and creating a reproducible peer review rubric for new materials. Volunteers for the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL) were recruited from NAHRS and have been working on the project since fall of 2020.

Description: The goal of the NNERL working group is to create a nursing resource list that is available to a wide audience, represents current materials and formats, and utilizes a process that is transparent and reproducible. To that end, the NNERL group has focused not only on updating the list, but also creating procedures that will ensure that future versions of the NNERL will continue to be comprehensive and meet established criteria. The NNERL group has three areas of concentration: format and accessibility of the NNERL, evaluation of current and prospective list items, and item-level meta-data creation to ensure that resources are easily findable.

Conclusion: The NNERL group has completed a multi-stage review of all current NNERL resources. Each item was first reviewed for timeliness/availability. Next, a subgroup created a rubric to assist with impartial evaluation. Using the rubric, each current item was reviewed by at least two librarians. This will be repeated for new resources. An additional subgroup reviewed the list’s original areas of interest list and created/updated meta-data tags, generating peer reviewed scope notes based on MeSH and CINAHL subject headings. A draft of the NNERL is expected to be completed in the coming months.