Dr. Lei at Genetics and Public Health encourages medical/health bloggers to answer the following questions recommended by The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the 10 questions is to give readers of medical/health related blogs the ability to evaluate what they are reading.
The responses for Nursing Studio are as follows:
1. Who runs this site?
Tanya About Me link
2. Who pays for the site?
Currentlly my college roommate provides me with the server space that is shared with her website. The sever side software is the free WordPress blogging system. I even do the podcasts free (which explains the bad sound sometimes).
3. What is the purpose of the site?
To present information I found (and hope others find) useful.
4. Where does the information come from?
Various sources. I try to quote sources in each post. I occasionally start from Wikipedia (which needs it sources checked reguarly). The rest comes from my experiences.
5. What is the basis of the information?
See above.
6. How is the information selected?
What I think is relevant to the question/topic being posted about
7. How current is the information?
Within the last 3 years. I still have some general references that old that are great starting points.
8. How does the site choose links to other sites?
What I find interesting or the occasional courtesy links back to people who link to me.
9. What information about you does the site collect, and why?
Username & email. To prove that you are a human and not a spambot leaving comment spam. Under the Studio Schedule there are subscription links to email lists that are used to send email to those who register for major webpage updates. Joining such lists is voluntary. Registration is required for the wiki and forum usage to prevent spamers, but no one appears to be using them at this point.
10. How does the site manage interactions with visitors?
They comment and I comment (or email when appropriate) back. Only spam is edited or deleted. Once someone has commented the first time they are remembered as commentors by the WordPress system and all future comments are auto approved.
Edited to add: Oops I forgot to add the concept of open medicine is thanks to Hippocrates at the Medical Blog Network.