Question

Discuss how social media and/or professional networking can be both useful and harmful to nurses, the nursing profession, or healthcare.

Answer 1

SOCIAL MEDIA OR PROFFESSIONAL NETWORKING -NURSING

Social media is a way of communities to communicate and share information .for nurses social media allows them to connect their personal and proffessional lives ,facilitating conversation with colleagues about health care advance ,current best practices and more

HOW USEFUL SOCIAL MEDIA OR PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING FOR NURSES AND NURSING PROFESSION

- Social media act as a platform for student nurses to communicate .it enable nurses to find their peers working in same feild anywhere in the world and can share their lerning experiences

- Social media helps to a nurses to finding jobs.

- It provides healthcare professionals with application to share health information ,debate health practice issues,communicate with the public and promote the primary healthcare behaviours .

- Social media can be useful tool for collaboration .

- Nurses can also participate in online forums ,pose questions,and discuss patient health issues with peers who have similar interest .

- Social media helps to exchange ideas about treatment options with a broad range of communities ,and acquire the latest information of clinical knowledge in this supportive envirnment as a result .

-S ocial media establish new communication method for health proffesionals

- Social media helps the nurses to connect their patient and provide them healthcare education.

- Nurses can sent the health information via social media ,and it helps the patient reduce readmission .

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OR PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING HARMFUL TO NURSES

- Negative effect o f social media on healthcare practice is distractions interuptions during the working time

-Nurses are in a complicated atmosphere which vulnarable to distraction by social media .

-Mobile phones could be a potential factor in making distraction or interuptions among nurses while they are providing care to patients

-Social networking messages may introduce errors in medication calculations administration ,and it cause severe damage to the patient .

--Misusing of social media can lead to long lasting implications .it include nurses are responsible for adhering to the professional standards of the code of professional conduct when they use social media .

-Social media decrease the face to face communication skils .

- Lack of emotional connection between nurses

- Dimnishes understanding and thoughtfulness.

- Reduce the family closeness .

CONCLUSIONS

Social media or professional networking have both advantages and disadvantages among nurses. careful use of social media has give better result .