Miss Manners for social networking: a new role for medical librarians

Student nurses’ unethical behavior, social media, and year of birth

“…Atlas reported that millennial students are confident and unconcerned with the opinions of others and often approached social media with immaturity. Atlas’ 14 study also suggested that individual attitudes could contribute to unethical behavior on social media sites.…”

“…Older students were more comfortable with nursing ethics standards when compared to younger students who had a greater likelihood of engaging in academic misconduct. 14 The most significant contribution of McCrink’s 15 study, for example, is the student’s perception of the relationship between ethics and professionalism in their commitment to the standard of care for patients. Younger nurses had identity and value issues with the knowledge of ethics and what they valued as right or wrong, while more experienced nurses had fewer issues.…”

Improving instruction in medical libraries: the research agenda

“…Thus, as I thought about the Journal of the Medical Library Association's (JMLA's) special issue on instruction, I asked myself, ''Why do librarians instruct users anyways?'' As Michel Atlas points out in her comment and opinion piece in this issue, the stereotypical image of a librarian rarely includes instruction [1]. In fact, many of my friends were amazed to learn that, as a librarian, I taught courses for students and faculty.…”