As social media becomes more prevalent in the lives of children and young people, these digital spaces are increasingly becoming part of their health information seeking. This article is the first in a series of three investigating the role of social media, health mis/information and children. It provides an overview of social media and its prevalence among children and young people in the UK. Increasingly, young people are obtaining health information from social media and there are concerns about the possibility that children and young people could be vulnerable to health misinformation in these user-generated content platforms. However, it is also important to recognise the perceived benefits of these information sources for children and young people.

Digital technology is becoming increasingly common in routine nursing practice. The adoption of digital technologies such as video calling, and other digital communication, has been hastened by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Use of these technologies has the potential to revolutionise nursing practice, leading to potentially more accurate patient assessment, monitoring processes and improved safety in clinical areas. This article outlines key concepts related to the digitalisation of health care and the implications for nursing practice. The aim of this article is to encourage nurses to consider the implications, opportunities and challenges associated with the move towards digitalisation and advances in technology. Specifically, this means understanding key digital developments and innovations associated with healthcare provision and appreciating the implications of digitalisation for the future of nursing practice.

AimsThis scoping review aims to identify existing theories associated with digital nursing practice to add a lens on the future use of digital technologies by nurses.DesignA review of theories related to digital technology in nursing practice was conducted following the framework described by Arksey and O'Malley. All published literature until 12th May 2022 was included.Data sourcesSeven databases were utilized including Medline, Scopus, CINAHL, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, BNI and Web of Science. A Google Scholar search was also performed.Review MethodsThe search terms included (nurs* AND [digital OR technol* OR e‐health or ehealth or digital health or telemedicine or telehealth] AND theory).ResultsThe database searches yielded 282 citations. After screening, nine articles were included in the review. These described eight distinct nursing theories.ConclusionThe focuses of the theories included the role of technology in society and nursing. How technology should be developed to support nursing practice, health consumers' use of nursing informatics, the use of technology as an expression of caring and the preservation of humanness and the relationship between human persons and non‐human actants and the creation of nursing technologies as caring in addition to existing technologies. Three themes were identified including the role of technology as an agent within the patient environment; nurse interactions with technology to achieve ‘knowing’ of patients and the necessity of technological competence among nurses. Then, using Actor Network Theory (ANT), a zoom‐out lens to map the concepts was proposed (The Lens for Digital Nursing [LDN]). This study is the first to add a new theoretical lens on digital nursing.ImpactThis study provides the first synthesis of key concepts of nursing theories to add a theoretical lens to digital nursing practice. This can be used in a functional capacity to zoom‐in different entities.No patient or public contribution was made in this study due to it being an early scoping study on a currently understudied area of nursing theory.