6---Halfway there!

http://www.orthonurse.org/portals/0/pediatric%20fractures%202.pdf

6th critique...I'm halfway done!

1. Content: The content of this site includes information on pediatric fractures and when to consider them an emergency. It also provides images of differnt types of fractures sustained.

2. Design: The article includes images and table which I found informative and helpful in reading this article. It helped to see the types of injuries as I was reading about it.

3. Disclosure of authors: There are 2 authors for the articles. Both have MS degrees and are RNC.

4. Currency: The article is copyrighted 2005. It was published in August 2005 in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

5. Authority of sources: The resources for the article are listed at the end. Some of them are very dated being from the late 1980s. I would think there is more current information available to write an article with.

6. Ease of use: The article is very easy to navigate through and is not too long. It was a little confusing with the images not on the same page as the information speaking about them.

7. Accessibility: I found the article by simply searching on Yahoo. One would also be able to find the article by going to the Journal of Pediatric Nursing site.

8. Intended Audience: This article is aimed at nurses and medical providers because it speaks of injuries and when to consider them emergencies and also about education to give the family of the child.

9. Contact addresses: At the bottom is the first page is contact information for Children's Hospital in Boston and an email address for one of the authors at Harvard.

10. User support: There is no support for this article however I do not think it is needed when reading this article.

Summary: I thought this information was somewhat useful on Peds Emergencies. There is more information on what is not an emergency that what actually is. I will probably use a little bit of this information in my comunity and research it a little further elsewhere.