Professionalism and Social Media Research 2022

Running head: PROFESSIONALISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA 1
Professionalism and Social Media
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PROFFESIONALISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA 2
PROFESSIONALISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media is characterized as web-based channels that enable clients to sharply connect and
specifically self-present, either in real-time or asynchronously, with both wide and slender
spectators who get an incentive from client produced content and the view of cooperation with
others. This ordinarily incorporates such long-range informal communication destinations as
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (Ross & Cross 2019). A high extent of healthcare
professionals utilizes social media for individual use. Others think about social media,
particularly Facebook and Twitter, as an apparatus for professional improvement, as a method
for getting to data, promoting practices and administrations, openings for job opportunities, just
as imparting or including your insight issues important to you and others online.
However, other social media research has been carried out that has implications for the
professional and the patient-nurse relationship. Quite a bit of this research has featured occasions
where nurse’s social media activities and their contents might harm the implicit agreement that
exists among society and healthcare professionals (Greer, Hermanns, Abel & Njoki 2019). For
example, having an online association with patients, breaching the confidentiality of patients in
social media posts and composing rude remarks about partners and employers. For example, in
an example higher percentage of the social media activities were in violation of the nursing
ethics, 34% involved the contents which are considered unprofessional (34.2%), involved
substance abuse (1.6%), posting patients’ data (1.6%), and delineations of an unlawful acts
(1.1.%).