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Social Media for Nurses
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Objectives
Locate, evaluate, and share nursing informatics websites, blogs, forums, or social media platforms
Create social media
workplace guidelines for nurses
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Overview
Social networking (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn);
2. Blogging ( and wikis (
3. Microblogging (e.g., Twitter);
4. Social bookmarking or pinning (e.g., Pinterest) and social sharing news (Digg, Reddit); and
5. Video or image sharing (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, TikTok,
SnapChat
).
During this activity
you
will be asked to find sites that are
personally and professionally
relevant to you
.
The purpose of this activity is to locate
, evaluate, and share nursing
informatics
w
ebsites, blogs, forums,
or
social media platforms
. These sites
can be great tools for networking, informal learning, sharing relevant information,
keeping informed,
etc.
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Part I: Nursing Informatics
Locate a Nursing Informatics blog, website, forum, or social media platform. or a Nurse to follow online. The nurse should hold some type of a role in informatics.
Examples: nurse informaticist nursing informatics clinician, clinical informatics coordinator and IT clinical nurse
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Provide a link to a personal or professional Nursing informatics |
Describe the site. What types of information does it provide? How frequently is it updated? What is the purpose of the site? |
Would you recommend this site to fellow nursing learners/peers? Why or why not? |
Part II: Wellness
Locate a Wellness website, blog, social media platform, or forum. As you examine the site, consider whether you’d recommend this site to a fellow peer.
8 Dimensions of Wellness include:
· Emotional
· Spiritual
· Physical
· Social
· Occupational
· Financial
· Intellectual
· Environmental
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Provide a link to a personal or professional Nursing informatics |
Describe the site. What types of information does it provide? How frequently is it updated? What is the purpose of the site? |
Would you recommend this site to fellow nursing learners/peers? Why or why not? |
Part III: Nursing Learner Success
Locate a website, blog, social media platform, or forum that supports nursing learner success.
Examples: NCLEX prep, nursing study tools, nursing skills development.
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Provide a link to a personal or professional Nursing informatics social media platform, blog, website, or forum that supports nursing learner success. |
Describe the site. What types of information does it provide? How frequently is it updated? What is the purpose of the site? |
Would you recommend this site to fellow nursing learners/peers? Why or why not? |
Part IV: Nursing Inspiration/Joy
Locate a website, blog, social media platform, or forum that provides nursing inspiration/joy.
There a several ways to remain resilient during times of high stress and burnout: 1. reconnect with your purpose, 2. encouragement/inspiration, 3. humor/levity
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Provide a link to a personal or professional Nursing informatics social media platform, blog, website, or forum that provides nurses/ nursing learners with inspiration/joy |
Describe the site. What types of information does it provide? How frequently is it updated? What is the purpose of the site? |
Would you recommend this site to fellow nursing learners/peers? Why or why not? |
Part V: Social Media Policy
You’ve been asked to write social media guidelines for the nurses within your healthcare facility. Provide a bulleted list of Do’s & Don’ts.
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Do |
Do Not |
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