Life Quest: Executive Summary

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”.
When thinking about my employment at Life Quest and social media, the CEO just recently created a Facebook page. The Facebook page for Life Quest is fairly new at it gives a brief overview about what services we provide and events that Life Quest will be a part of. Within the Facebook page it has contact information and a link to our website. The website goes more in detail on what services we provide to adults and children 0-3 years of age. It also has pictures, newsletters, community events that we attend. It provides the organization’s mission, vision, philosophy and so much more.

May 15th of this year, Life Quest was one of many nonprofit organizations who participated in Give grandly.

Give Grandly is a State wide fundraising event that is open for a full 24 hours. It helps local nonprofits organizing to raise money based on donations. Life Quest used Social Media “Facebook” to sway our friends, family and local business to donate money to our organization. Life Quest, raised $2119.75. I believe we raised this much money because of social media. The CEO at Life Quest asked all of the staff members, who has a Facebook page, to kindly “Like or share” the organization’s page. This way all of our “friends” will see it and it will give Life Quest a better chance at getting

donations.
According to the text book Reece and Reece (2014). “If people send messages when they are feeling emotional or not thinking clearly, they may forget the impact their actions can have on their relationships and careers”. This statement is very true; we have to be very careful what we put out there on social media because once we hit submit or post picture it cannot be undone. For example, my co-worker got reprimanded for posting a selfie on Facebook in the company vehicle and a client’s face was in the picture. My co-worker wrote details about the client and also mentioned that the client was annoying him. This broke our company’s HIPPA policies. He was asked by our superior to take down the picture otherwise he would be written up or possibly fired for breaking the HIPAA law.
Social media and health care can be a great for both patients and health care professionals. According to the article Ventola, C. L. (2014). Social media can do many things to improve and enhance professional networking, education, patient care, and promote public health programs. It can also be very harmful as well. Social media have poor quality of information, that are unreferenced, not complete or off the record. Social media can play a huge threat to a person getting or keeping a job. Certain behaviors that are found on social media according to the article Ventola, C. L. (20140. “missteps by HCP’s have been documented, including physicians taking digital photos during surgery, posing with weapons or alcohol, and posting tweets that are harmful to an individual or the profession”. We just have to careful what we post on social media and really think twice because it is etched in history forever.