Dunk, Ann Marie, and Jan Taylor. "Understanding and closing the knowledge gaps for graduate nurses." Australian Nursing Journal Aug. 2011: 39. Nursing and Allied Health Collection. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.
This article was about how nurses need more training with handling infection prevention and wound management. There was a study done to prove that even with a little more training, nurses felt more confident with dealing with these kind of things and felt like they had a better understanding of the steps to take. This article has many great points on why nurses need better training.
I believe the audience of this article is nurses, doctor/hospital boards, and college professors/deans. I came to this conclusion because the authors give nurses a way to get more knowledge in these areas. Doctor and hospitals need to take into consideration that schools are not giving proper information and that maybe they should offer some kind of coarse them selves. And for colleges, they need to do something about this. If nurses are not going into their career with the correct knowledge, then the college obvisouly needs to change something to give nurses adequate learning abilities. In the blogs that I have read and commented on have had very broad audiences. They were pretty much for whoever wanted to read.
The content of this article seems very appropriate and professional. Words are spelled correctly and the authors have facts to back up their information. The format was very straight forward which makes it very easy to read. In the blogs that I read, the formats were very informal and easy to read but felt as if the authors did not put as much effort into their posts.
The article is my choice of a reading because they state facts, it is formal, professional, and they are very easy to read. The sources seem much more credible. However, in some cases you do not need to read something so formal. I think if I were looking for an advice column or something of that sort, I would rather read a blog.
