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and as a Health Professional
and as a Health Professional
Are you on Facebook?
1 2
0%0%
1. Yes2. No
1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 31, 2015
936 million daily active users on average for March 2015
Are you on Twitter?
1 2
0%0%
1. Yes2. No
302 million Twitter monthly active users worldwide
500 million Tweets a day which means about 5,700 Tweets a second
Most followers = Katy Perry: 69,998,945
Pros and cons
In groups of 3/4 think about the possible pros and cons of using social media,
personally and/or professionally
@WeNurses is run by Teresa Chinn who is a registered nurse. Teresa was an agency nurse who found herself professionally isolated and reached out to social media to connect with other nurses. It was Teresa who first brought the concept of Twitter chats to nursing in the UK
Stephen’s Storyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27192089
The BBC reported on nurse who has been suspended from nursing for six months after foul-mouthed outbursts on Facebook.
The article states:
“The NMC said her offensive posts on the social networking site were likely to reflect badly on the profession.”
Care home assistants suspended for mocking elderly residents by gurning and posing with zimmer frames
NMC code (2015) states:
20 Uphold the reputation of your profession at all times
20.10 use all forms of spoken, written and digital communication (including social media and networking sites) responsibly, respecting the right to privacy of others at all times.
Further guidance - NMC. (2015). Guidance on using social media responsibly. London: NMC.
We all have a digital footprint...
Thing 1:Map your digital footprint
Image from ericaglasier.com
What’s your main Facebook privacy setting?
1 2 3 4 5
20% 20% 20%20%20%
1. “Friends only”
2. “Friends of friends”
3. Public4. Not sure5. Don’t use
Thing 2:Check your Facebook profile
(http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/tools)
Have you ever Googled yourself?A. YesB. No
Yes No
0%0%
Are you aware of the CHHS regulations on the use of social media?
1 2 3
0% 0%0%
1. Yes (and I have read them)
2. Yes (but I haven’t read them)
3. No
“ to promote the dignity of all students and staff at the University
by eliminating all forms of offensive behaviour, and
to establish a working and learning environment free from harassment and aggression”SU Dignity at Work and Study Policy
Thing 4Read the CHHS Social Media Guidelines
(on Blackboard)
Do you feel happy with your use of social media?
1 2 3 4
0% 0%0%0%
1. Yes2. No3. I may make
some changes
4. Not sure
Thing 5: Using Twitter
Keep up-to-date. If you are new to Twitter follow @wenurses who hold regular tweet chats on different nursing topics using the #wenurses hashtag
Follow your College, lecturers fellow students on twitter eg: @Sarahanntait or @hywel_t or @humanandhealth or @Baillie2Piercy
Follow your nursing organisation in twitter eg: @theRCN
Don’t want to sign up? You can still lurk! http://twitter.com/search
Why should you use twitter?
Thing 6: Blogging
Blogs are web logs (like an online diary)
Useful for keeping up-to-date, knowledge sharing and networking.
For examplehttp://studentblogs.swan.ac.uk/martin-morgan/
What are blogs?
Always be sensible!
“[don’t] say anything you wouldn’t attach your name to, even if anonymous. Every comic little anecdote you might share about work could be another person’s tragedy. Be mindful.”
From the Guardian online chat: “How are Social Workers using Social Media”, comment by “Civil Servant”
Thing 7: Using the web
Which of the three sites would you use for information and why?1. http://www.genochoice.
com2. http
://geneticsandsociety.org
3. http://www.gig.org.uk/
http://www
.genochoice.com
http://ge
neticsan
dsociety.org
http://www
.gig.org.uk/
0% 0%0%
Evaluating Web ResourcesCheck:
◦Who wrote the information? Do they have relevant qualifications? Have they written other material on the subject? Do they have a bias?
◦When was the information published? Is it current enough for your needs?
◦Why was the page put on the web? Is it selling or promoting something? Is it biased?
Where is it from? Clues in the URL
How often do you use Google for your assignments?
1 2 3
0% 0%0%
1. All of the time2. Some of the time 3. Hardly ever
Health in Wales – http://www.wales.nhs.uk
Dept. of Health – http://www.dh.gov.uk
Evidence Search - http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/
Welsh Government – http://www.wales.gov.uk
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