The multiple senders and multiple receivers for information literacy is an important distinction. Rather than have students consider patient teaching for just a single patient, perhaps they could consider how they would share an annotated set of resources for patient teaching (and address not only patient questions but questions from family), how would they keep their own nursing information current, what do students thing are the best means for making sure patients know information prior to leaving the hospital (or office, or other care setting), how would they handle if a patient came in and had already done some preliminary research, how would they help patients feel comfortable enough to ask questions about CAM and other different modalities of care. While this isn't necessarily within library science as a field, it is within information literacy, and librarians work at staying information literate--also, knowledge is becoming more interdisciplinary, and taking advantage of that interdisciplinary flow helps keep short-sightedness and inefficiency at bay.
