Social media usage and online professionalism among registered nurses: A cross-sectional survey

Wang, Zhenrong; Wang, Shuping; Zhang, Yun; Jiang, Xiaolian

doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.06.001

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“…Conversely, literature has reported some bene ts of use of social media by health professionals; selfdirected learning by staying current, listening to patients' opinions and needs, and patient education can potentially lead to better patient care (19,25,29,33,35,36). The use of social media offers valid opportunities to enhance engagement, effective feedback, professional collaboration and competence (32).…”

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Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Guraya

Yusoff

2020

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Background Despite a rapid rise of use of social media in medical disciplines, uncertainty prevails among healthcare professionals for providing medical content on social media. There are also growing concerns about unprofessional behaviors and blurring of professional identities that are undermining digital professionalism. This review tapped the literature to determine the impact of social media on medical professionalism and how can professional identities and values be maintained in digital era. Methods We searched the databases of PubMed, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and EBSCO host using (professionalism AND (professionalism OR (professional identity) OR (professional behaviors) OR (professional values) OR (professional ethics))) AND ((social media) AND ((social media) OR (social networking sites) OR Twitter OR facebook)) AND (health professionals). The research questions were based on participants (health professionals), concept (professionalism), and context (social media, digital world). We screened initial yield of titles using pre-determined inclusion and exclusion criteria and selected a group of articles for qualitative analysis. We used the Biblioshiny® software package for generation of popular concepts as clustered keywords. Results Our search yielded 44 articles with four leading themes; marked rise in use of social media by healthcare professionals and students, negative impact of social media on digital professionalism, blurring of medical professional values, behaviors, and identity in digital era, limited evidence for teaching and assessing digital professionalism. A high occurrence of violation of patient privacy and professional integrity and cyberbullying is reported. There are no existing guidelines and policies for digital professionalism that can safeguard healthcare professionals, students and patients. Conclusion Our scoping review reports a rapid rise of unprofessional behaviors on social media among healthcare professionals. The boundaries between personal and professional practices are mystified in digital professionalism. These findings call for potential educational ramifications to resurrect professional virtues, behaviors and identities of healthcare professionals and students.

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Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

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Yusoff

2020

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“…Time constraints, physical limitation and transportation cost are barriers for patients with AS to attend these educational interventions [15,16]. The use of mobile telehealth platforms is a new and innovative delivery strategy for patient education that may overcome the barriers of face-to-face strategy [17]. In recent years, educational interventions delivered through mHealth approaches have grown rapidly with increased access to telecommunication devices, e.g.…”

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Effects of WeChat-based Educational Intervention on Depression and Quality of Life in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Randomized Controlled Trail

Song

Xie

Chen

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Background: Ankylosing spondylitis(AS), as a common inflammatory rheumatic disease, often cause depression and impaired health-related quality of life(QoL). Although positive effects of patient education have been demonstrated, limited studies explored the benefits of education via mobile applications for AS patients. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the WeChat-based educational intervention on depression and health-related QoL in AS patients.Methods: We conducted a single-blind randomized controlled trial from March to December 2017. Potential patients were recruited and randomized into the intervention group who received a 12-week WeChat-based educational intervention (consisting of four individual online educational sessions, online health information) or the control group receiving standard care. Data was collected at baseline and 12 weeks after the intervention. Outcomes were measured by Beck Depression Inventory-Ⅱ, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36-item Health Survey, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Patient Global Score, visual analogue scales. Results: A total of 118 patients with AS were included and analysed. Measures at baseline were comparable between groups. After the intervention, the intervention group reported significant higher scores of all dimensions of QoL except for physical function and validity, compared with the control group. Additionally, patients in the intervention group had lower depressive symptom than the control group. No significant difference in other outcomes was observed at 12 weeks. Conclusions: This study found that the 12-week educational intervention via WeChat had positive effects on reducing depressive symptom and improving health related QoL in Chinese patients with AS. We suggest that this intervention can be integrated into current routine care of AS patients. Trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trail Registry (registry number: ChiCTR-IPR-16009293). Registered September 29, 2016.

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“…In their professional lives, nurses are often confronted with ethical problems such as involving conflicts with colleagues, giving information about the disease and treatment process, palliative care and equitable distribution of resources (Gül et al ). Widespread social media has added new conflicts to these ethical problems (Barnable et al ; NCSBN ; Wang et al ).…”

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Social media use and ethics violations: Nurses’ responses to hypothetical cases

Demiray

Çakar

AÇIL

et al. 2019

International Nursing Review

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Aim This study aimed to evaluate nurses’ ability to evaluate ethical violations to hypothetical case studies involving social media use. Background Inappropriate use of social media necessitates health institutes, academic institutes, nurses and educators to consider occupational ethical principles while creating a policy and guide on the usage of social media. Method The data were collected confidentially from the nurses working at a university hospital in Turkey, using the Personal Information Form and the Ethic Case Form. The study was carried out using descriptive and inferential analysis. Findings Analysis of the data showed that the majority of the nurses had received training in ethics, used WhatsApp social media application most often, spent less than an hour a day on social media platforms and used social media to follow daily posts. Analyses of the ethical case evaluations showed that nurses’ level of education and ethics training status was influential on their Case 1 evaluations and the length of time they had worked was effective in Case 2 evaluations. When Case 3 evaluations of nurses were analysed according to ethics training, statistically significant differences were found. The analyses of the Case 4 and Case 5 evaluations showed that no statistically significant differences were found according to nurses’ descriptive characteristics. Conclusion The study determined that education level, ethical training status, the source of ethics training and the duration of their work in the profession were effective regarding the case evaluation of the nurses. Implications for nursing and health policy Nursing policymakers, educators, administrators and clinicians need to cooperate in the development of ethical awareness and creation of solutions to violations, the preparation of guidelines for social media use.

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Social media usage and online professionalism among registered nurses: A cross-sectional survey

Cited by 65 publications

References 44 publications

Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Preserving Professional Identities, Behaviors, and Values in Digital Professionalism: A Scoping Review

Effects of WeChat-based Educational Intervention on Depression and Quality of Life in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Randomized Controlled Trail

Social media use and ethics violations: Nurses’ responses to hypothetical cases

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