Social Media And Nursing

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Introduction
This article is about the popularity of social media and its development into the academic arena has shown incredible potential for advances in teaching. This article also discovers the legal impact of privacy concerns when social media is used as a teaching tool. Social media helps a user to connect, collaborate and communicate with others such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, media-sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube and blogs, wikis and also podcasts. Social media also change the communication standard from a traditional face-to-face model to variety of Web-based social media applications. Online interactive and social media platforms change the way in nursing students to communicate and academic institutions using social …show more content…

It is important for institutions of higher education to create a policy for the responsible use of social media. In fact, social networking involves sharing connections between ideas and people, whereas HIPPA and FERPA regulations protect an individual’s privacy through strict protocols about how personel information can be used and by whom.

Impact on the Academic Environment
One risk of using social media is posting unprofessional content that can reflect negatively on students, associated institutions and the nursing profesion in general. The way in which people choose to present themselves publicly in an online environment is an sign of their character and by making public posts, they have provided an open invitation for anyone to view the posted information for any purpose.

Faculty Implications
¬¬One privacy issue related to social media is the obligation to act if information is discovered that suggests behavior contrary to published expectations or more importantly could potentially harm a student. For example, if a student posts complaints on a social media page about a particular course, the question is whether the instructor should respond or ignore the information. There are many benefits including the fact that both Facebook and Twitter are free applications and they also easy and affordable to access. In addition, students are comfortable and …show more content…

The clinical faculty has a rich resource available when orienting students to the clinical facility with the readily accessible data sources provided directly by the clinical facility. The faculty could simply point a student to the facility’s Facebook page without passing out handbooks. Students can be directed in the clinical arena to help patients set up a Web site specifically designed for the patient posting of medical events. Even in these settings, it is not appropriate to post something that can be took as violating confidentiality or professional

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