Student Nurse Attitudes and Behaviours when Using Social Network Sites
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The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of education in professional boundaries on the use and management of social media by using quantitative survey methods to ask "What are the social networking behaviours of student nurses following education in professional boundaries? Findings from this research indicate that student nurses are active SNS users, primarily for personal engagement. Facebook is overwhelmingly the most popular SNS, with snapchat and Instagram also commonly used. While students primarily used SNS for personal reasons, many reported SNS use for educational / professional purposes as well, including to discuss academic related topics. Most students responded that they were aware of privacy settings on SNS, however there is a discrepancy between awareness of privacy settings and the number of students implementing the privacy features.
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Studies found high social media use among students, ranging from 66.9% to 98.7%.
“Studies that assessed SM use among different types of HCPs found high use among students, from 66.9% to 98.7% [40,43,50,51,60,61,64-66,68-70,102]”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
Studies showed privacy settings deployment from 71% to 97% among health care professionals.
“Studies showed privacy settings deployment from 71% to 97% among HCPs [40,42,65,66,68,96,100,115,117,118].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
Several studies demonstrated students' use of social media for acquiring knowledge, gaining access to information from experts they otherwise could not connect with, or creating communities for supportive, professional, and social learning.
“Several studies have demonstrated students’ use of SM for acquiring knowledge, to gain access to information from experts with whom they otherwise would not be able to connect with, or for creating communities that can then be used as means for supportive, professional, and social learning [44,45,58,66].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
Potential damage to professional image has been depicted by students as concerns about repercussions of their posts on career development or future employment, since employers are checking social media profiles of candidates.
“Potential damage to the professional image has been depicted by students as concerns about repercussions of their posts on career development or future employment, since employers are checking SM profiles of candidates [43, 45, 51, 56, 57, 59, 66, 68, 70].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
Several studies have demonstrated that students use social media for acquiring knowledge, gaining access to information from experts they otherwise could not connect with, or creating communities for supportive, professional, and social learning.
“Several studies have demonstrated students’ use of SM for acquiring knowledge, for gaining access to information from experts with whom they otherwise would not be able to connect, or for creating communities that can then be used as a means for supportive, professional, and social learning [44,45,58,66].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
Students depict potential damage to professional image as a concern about repercussions of their posts on career development or future employment because employers check social media profiles of candidates.
“Potential damage to professional image has been depicted by students as a concern about repercussions of their posts, on career development, or on future employment since employers are checking SM profiles of candidates [43, 45, 51, 56, 57, 59, 66, 68, 70].”
From Dangers and Benefits of Social Media on E-Professionalism of Health Care Professionals: Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [66]
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- Authors
- Roseanne, S.
- Venue
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 264
- Pages
- 1342-1346
- ISSN
- 0926-9630 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2989969715
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 4.12
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Studies in health technology and informatics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Demography › Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
- Keywords
- nursing students, social networking sites, social media use, professional boundaries, privacy settings, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, nursing education, professional conduct
- MeSH terms
- Attitude, Humans, Students, Nursing, Privacy, Social Networking, Social Media
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