Spotting Reliable Health Advice Online: A Nurse's 7-Step Checklist

Too much health information online is confusing, conflicting, and occasionally dangerous. In this episode Nurse Jessi walks listeners through a practical, evidence-aware approach to evaluating health claims on social posts, blogs, and news articles. You’ll get a compact seven-step checklist that covers authorship and credentials, source transparency, study quality, conflicts of interest, consensus vs. single studies, sensible language cues, and immediate safety actions when advice could harm. Through clear explanations and two short real-world examples, Nurse Jessi shows how to apply the checklist in minutes so listeners can make safer decisions, ask smarter questions of clinicians, and avoid unnecessary worry. This episode is about building everyday health literacy—skills everyone can use the next time they see a bold medical claim online.