In 2011, a registered nurse was fired for using her cell phone to post comments to a social networking site while she was performing patient care (Stakowski). The temptation, I dare say, borderline addiction, people fall victim to not only may wreck a career but will in turn be devastating to family life at home also. Currently, you will seldom come across people that do not engage in some type of social media on a regular basis. Social media seems to be as important as breathing to people in our culture. The problem with twenty-four-seven social media is that it will more than likely carry over into the workplace. Nurses are not exempt from the norm of social media. Also, social media can often feel like a popularity contest. Who can get the …show more content…
With millions of people every day utilizing social media, users should keep in mind to be very careful with the types of information they put out there for people to see. Nurses need to be made aware of the responsibility they must take to be even more attentive and smart about what goes on Facebook and what does not. He or she must re-think and contemplate if the post they are about to make will have consequences for themselves or the person they are posting about. With laws such as, HIPPA, being complaint driven, nurses must not only think about what will be entertaining, say a photo of a child with a gummy bear stuck up their nose, but think about the effects it may have if the picture gets around to the family, embarrasses them and they, in turn, make the decision to sue (Amy L Hader). Also, healthcare professionals should be sure to go to a private area to discuss patient’s conditions, diagnosis, treatments. The author also states that privacy rules go beyond the hospital, in fact, you may break one of the rules by innocently talking with a friend or loved one outside of the appropriate realm of discussions. In one case out of Wisconsin, two nurses are under investigation by the FBI for federal violations because pictures of a patient’s personal indiscretions were posted on the nurses Facebook page and then further discussed (Hader). In another case, according to the AANA a nurse and an orderly were caught talking about a current patient’s HIV/AIDS condition in a place within earshot of another patient’s room, and as a result, both were put on leave and left with permanent derogatory marks on the nurse’s work records. In addition to the effects, it leaves on the patients, nurses breaching HIPPA laws can be devastating to their career and personal life. Evan D Brown states in the ANAA Journal, that there can be fines up to fifty thousand dollars and/or one year
Employees within healthcare and anyone who has been a mature patient in recent years have been duly informed of the Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA), but even more people are more intimately familiar with the social networking site Facebook. Prior to researching the legal and ethical boundaries at it pertains to patient confidentiality in nursing school, many of us thought little of the HIPPA concept and how it applies to each of us as individuals. We can announce to the world on Facebook that I have a lump, please go get a mammogram! We can whine on for ages about our children’s medical problems. We make announcements and call for prayers for our spouses and parents who are ill. We share with our friends and family, sometimes things we should not share. This is not about Facebook; its essence is respecting others privacy and refusing to participate in activity that may divulge private medical information about anyone. Crossing that line, making clear the intent to become a part of the health care sector, changes your responsibility toward identifying information regarding a person other than yourself, and that information dies with you or there can be harsh consequences.
Each nurse has a duty to protect the patient as well as their right to privacy and confidentiality (ANA, 2011). Each nurse should advocate for an environment that provides sufficient physical activity, including privacy for discussions of a personal nature (ANA, 2011). It is a nurse’s responsibility to maintain confidentiality of all patient information. If this standard is not maintained, the patient’s well- being could be jeopardized. The patient’s rights, well-being, and safety should be the primary factors concerning information received orally, written, and electronically (ANA, 2011). It is the nurse’s responsibility to be...
There were tons of incidents where employees were fired for social media use. I found some incidents related to privacy issues in hospitals. In one case at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, the 60-year-old man had been stabbed more than a dozen times by his nursing home resident in which his throat ripped so brutally, he was almost decapitated. Instead of focusing on saving him, St. Mary nurses and other hospital staff snapped photos of the dying man and posted them on Facebook. As a result of this unacceptable action, four staff members were fired, and three discipline. In another case at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, five nurses were fired after hospital managers found out they had been discussing patients on Facebook. In addition,
Everyone is now using social media for their personal use and to communicate in many ways. Social media is a way for businesses and health care professionals to include social networking to educate, promote, improve or enhance the work place. According to the article by C. Lee Ventola (2014). Social media refers to “Internet-based tools that allow individuals and communities to gather and communicate: to share information, ideas, personal messages, images, and other content: and, in some cases to collaborate with other users in real time”.
The use of Social Media in the workplace is counter-productive. There are many reasons why this is so. The workplace is the place where you should be working, not checking on what Aunt Ethell had for dinner last night or whether your friends posted that embarrassing weekend photo. Most workplaces have plenty of distractions on their own without adding the extra time-wasting properties of Social Media. There is also the argument that what you post on Social Media can affect the way you are perceived at work. If your habits are less than savoury and your colleagues have access to the proof, you could find yourself without a job at all. It is easy to "slip up" and say things online that you may not have intended to be in the public domain. Internet
Along with a surplus of material on how to manage ones’ social media profile, the following five articles warning nurses of the professional, ethical, and legal implications over the improper use of social media (Clark, 2013; Cronquist & Spector, 2012; Keogh, 2013; Lambert, Barry, & Stokes, 2012; McCrink, 2010). Even with this information readily available, there is very little documentation concerning nurses comprehension of whether they have crossed the professional line and how managers can insure their staff have all the tools they need to prevent this breach of professionalism from
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Many teens, young adults, and even adults are faced with social media addiction. Do people realize this addiction is a serious problem or is it just simply ignored because it is considered as a “hobby”? These things cannot be ignored especially when it is considered a habit. Social media may have not been looked at as a problem when social networking sites were coming out to the public, but today it is very clear that more people are becoming dependent on social networking sites. It seems as if nowadays everyone has a Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Instagram account. It is the norm for the 21st century and it is how people communicate and network today. People log on different social networking sites numerous times a day. Some people argue social media is a hobby, and it is only a habit that is not considered dangerous. Today’s social media has grown quickly and as it spreads more people are becoming addicted and not focused on what really matters in the outside world.
I think all social media outlets can really be a good thing if they are used wisely but they can also be the cause of much trouble when used foolishly. Facebook posts have cost public safety personal a lot of jobs in the last few years. We can spend some more time talking about Facebook later. For now, I want to speak about those other social media outlets that have caused employees that I know to get in hot water. I know of three that have really caused more than a few public safety, personal a few days without pay. They are Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. It amazes me how many adults think and tell you when interviewing them after an incident that they did not relive or know that when you hit the delete button that what they had just hit send is not really deleted. Just because you take a photo of yourself doing something stupid or one with your patient and think that it will be gone when the Snapchat post disappears… it does
This paper is about an ethical dilemma that can affect health care organizations. Social media, for example Facebook was chosen and discussed to describe possible dilemmas, its history, and major ethical issues that can arise from its use. Social media was the topic discussed because technology is an essential aspect in the world today. However, several problems may arise if social media is not used professionally by health care workers. Also, guidelines were provided for health care facilities to be successful when using social media as a tool.
Technology has greatly improved since the first computer was created. There are new cell phones that can connect to the internet and have access to different apps. Computers have evolved the idea of social media from simple chat rooms to websites like Facebook or Twitter which allow someone to connect people to the world wide web. With all of these new trends, people begin to craze over the new inventions or creations in masses. People now just have to press a button and update their status or add a new picture. People who use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter show signs of addiction.
Having a social media account in today 's society is part of the norm and while many people are getting jobs at a younger age, having a social media account while working is very common. There are many types of social media accounts ranging from posting just pictures, sharing recipes, and telling everyone what you 're currently doing. As employees post on their behalf, many employers are getting upset about the post contain. The employer could put the employee liable of the post on probation or the employee could get terminated. Many employees argue that their social life "outside" of the job should not reflect on them on who they are on the job. Other employees may state that just because they work in a professional job setting, should not
Social media has become an extremely powerful and useful tool that enables people in a modern society to effortlessly interact and socialize with each other via the internet; however, there is an extremely dark and little known side of social media: addiction. Social media has the potential to become extremely addictive to its users. The addictive nature of social media may intensely interfere with users daily obligations in the real world, which may make a recovery process necessary in order to quell the powerful addiction.
Social media has nothing but negative effects on people’s minds. Social networking can become very addicting and people can get wrapped up in the drama and excitement of the cyber world. It would only improve our society today if social media never existed to our knowledge. Our society today feels so connected with social media that it interferes with our lives making every task even harder with the temptations.
These days’ social media is used widely among Americans. As many as seventy-four percent currently use some form of it, with the majority using Facebook. While most use these sites to catch up with friends and family, there are some who use it to commit crimes on those who over share. Everyday companies are hacked, homes are burglarized, and people bullied because of the status comments left for the public to see.