Spot the Signal: A Nurse's Checklist for Evaluating Health Advice Online

Information overload makes it hard to tell helpful health advice from harmful noise. In this monologue Nurse Jessi walks listeners through a concise, practical checklist used in clinical practice to evaluate articles, social posts, videos, and forwarded messages. You’ll learn simple credibility signals (who wrote it, funding and conflicts), how to spot weak evidence versus meaningful studies, quick ways to verify claims using trustworthy resources, and exact phrases to use when you bring a questionable claim to your provider. Two short real-world examples demonstrate the checklist in action so you can apply it immediately. The episode closes with at least three clear takeaways you can use today and a short script for having fact-based conversations with clinicians and family. This episode is for anyone tired of internet myths and looking for a reliable, repeatable method to protect their health decisions.