As nurses, I believe we would all agree that information plays a vital role in our daily nursing practice: from shift report to the policy and procedure manual, and from patient charts to Google and research journals; as nurses, we constantly require an influx of information to direct our care. As such, we count on the information we receive to be accurate and relevant so we can provide quality patient care. 
The need for information in nursing is supported by Anonymous (2004) in a paper that recognizes nurses need access to “fast, reliable and accurate information.” Skiba (2005) confirms this need for information in nursing practice. Both of these studies underscore the fact that information literacy is crucial to ensuring that nurses have access to quality information.  
As nurses, we have a professional responsibility to not only be informed but to ensure that the information we rely on is from reputable sources and that we have the skills necessary to think critically about the information we receive.