Introduction
With the rapid development of information technology, massive amounts of information are generated, circulated, exchanged, and exported at every moment [Information literacy, being a concept, was first posed in 1974 by Paul Zurkowski, Chairman of AIIC (American Information Industry Committee). The essence of information literacy is a basic ability required by people in the global information age which refers to the ability to perceive, obtain, evaluate, and use information creatively [Research showed that most Chinese nursing university students had a low level of information literacy, lacked keen information awareness, and were not good at using scientific and technological achievements, so they could not keep abreast of the latest research results in this professional field in time [However, the current textbooks in China focus on the cultivation of nurses’ clinical nursing ability and the teaching of medical knowledge [Therefore, the purpose of our study was to construct a training course and develop nurse education in the field of information literacy, and conduct empirical research to improve their information literacy level so as to provide theoretical reference for the training of information literacy courses for clinical nurses.