Current Issues in Nursing

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Current Issues in Nursing
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Nursing is a profession that involves the caring and supporting patients, families,
relatives and communities. Nurses are mostly found in health centers where they are assigned
various responsibilities that involves treating a patient. In modern day world, nursing has become
a very important part of the health care to deal with the increased number of patients and helping
in treating the curable and incurable diseases that are so common. Despite being an important
aspect of the health care department, people using the media have different opinions on the
nursing profession. The opinions from various medias including social media, film and television
media and the one to one interaction has raised various issues that has affected the nursing
profession in one way or another. In this article we will discuss on how various sources have
analyzed the effects of the media on nurses.
People are entitled to their different views on various subjects. Nursing is also not
different since various people have different views of the field. Being a profession, it has both its
advantages and disadvantages. In modern world, social media has become one of the influential
and key aspect of communication where people raise their different opinions regarding different
subjects. Using social media has affected nursing both positively and negatively from the use by
both nurses and other people. Barry, Hardiker (2012) analyzes on how social media has helped
the advancing of the nursing practice and potential risks that comes with the same and gives
advice and insight to nurses on best skills on how to cope with social media to their advantage.
The scholar journal gives a global aspect of the social media influence to nurses and their
profession.

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With the rising number of people using the internet, it has increased the number
of social media usage where user generated contents are shared. Social media gives nurses the
platform to communicate in a personal and professional level where they are able to educate and
influence other people. Interaction and direct communication allows users of the internet and
social media share their issues and get an immediate response from the nurses which may turn
out to be of great help. Also the sharing of experiences works as a positive impact to the people
where a nurse can give their experience on how they dealt with a given problem or a certain
patient giving their own experience on how they got help from a health center. Social media also
acts as a platform where promotion and awareness of current issues affecting the community can
be sent and received by a large population.
Social media also provides a platform for nurses where they can interact with
their fellow nurses and update each other on the recent developments on issues related to health
care. Despite social media having an impact on the nursing profession, it also has its challenges
and risks that cannot be ignored. Such issues include the internet users not trusting health
information from the internet which mostly is unreliable especially if the information is not
moderated. Also, some of the nursing professionals tend to have unprofessional behavior through
social media which leads to a negative impact to the health cares and also to the nursing
profession in general. The increase use of social media is therefore a potential for both a positive
and negative impact to the nurses and the nursing professional. Usage of social media should
therefore not just be taken for granted with guidelines and polices set for both individual and
personal level and also professional and institutional usage of social media.