How to Spot Trustworthy Health Information Online: A Nurse’s Plain Guide

The internet offers answers—and a lot of noise. In this 18-minute episode Nurse Jessi opens with a short composite vignette about a parent who changed a child’s treatment after reading a persuasive post and then felt guilty when it backfired. Jessi then teaches a compact, practical checklist: source signals (authorship, citations, conflicts of interest), study-level cues (sample size, control groups, outcomes that matter), and red flags (anecdotes, miracle cures, pressure to buy). Listeners get exact one-line and two-line scripts to bring questionable articles to clinicians or pharmacists without confrontation, plus a short walk-through of how to vet social posts, supplements, and headlines. The episode closes with three concrete takeaways listeners can use tonight, a curated 5-item starter list of trustworthy resources in the show notes, and a subscribe CTA. Tone is educational, pragmatic, and safety-first.