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NUR131 Research Foundations for Health Practice

   

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Running head: CRITICAL APPRAISAL USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE IN NURSING Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE IN NURSING1Article: Tuckett A & Turner C 2016, ‘Do you use social media? A study into new nursing and midwifery graduates' uptake of socialmedia’, International Journal of Nursing Practice, no. 22, pp. 197–204, doi:10.1111/ijn.12411Specific critique areaAnswerExplain the purpose of the study.Use the PICO or PICo format to identifythe research question. P (Problem or Patient population): There is increase in the use of social media among thenurses and midwives of Australia and New Zealand (Usher et al. 2014). However, it is still unclearthat whether the social media is merely used as a source of entertainment or as a major part ofeducation in health care.I (Intervention or indicator): Proper use of social media in the health care professionespecially among the nurses and the midwives will help to promote their learning process andexchange of knowledge in the health care domain (Echenique et al. 2015). However, there mustremain an awareness about the policies and professional standards centering the use of the socialmedia use.C (Comparison): Use of social media only for the purpose of entertainment in order to checkwhat the people are doing (Nadkarni and Hofmann 2012).O (Outcome of interest): Social media should not be used for unethical, malevolent or illegalpurpose. The use of social media among the nursing profession as a source of education willpromote exchange of knowledge but social media cannot be solely use as a principal media ofeducationDiscuss the design used in theresearch.The study was carried out among the registered nurses (n = 121), mainly women who havegraduated in the year 2009 and 2008. The registered nurses are from Australia and New Zealand.The selected graduate group of nurses was asked to complete an online survey under e-cohort webplatform. The analysis of the data was done by descriptive statistics. The data obtained from theopen-ended questions were analyzed via thematic analysis. The open-ended questions weredeductive in nature. The social media sites which chosen for the study include, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn, Google plus, Tumbler, Flickr, About Me, Vimeo. The questionthat are selected for the study based on the previous research data done over the social medianetworking and trends in social media use. The research questionnaire has no private questions apartfrom the personal contact details, which are kept confidential. Identify and explain sampling andrecruitment procedures were in theresearch. Sampling was done via targeting the registered nurses and the midwives practicing inAustralia and New Zealand. The nurses and the midwives who have graduate in the year of 2008(40%) and 2009 (60%) are selectively chosen for this study. The majority of the nurses who wereincluded in the study were women amounting to about 96% of the total participants. Of these 96%,93% were registered nurse, practicing in New Zealand and Australia. The sample was however,thoroughly split with 54% of the nurses or midwives graduating from New Zealand and 46% fromAustralia. The majority of the nurses, at least 92% of the selected population are currently employedand working as a nurse or midwife. As per the employment status, the majority of them are eitherfulltime / permanent or part-time / permanent and the rest was temporary. Moreover, majority ofthen nursing population selected for the study are employed in the public hospital under acute caredepartment. The research procedure observed a survey method with based on online survey ofquestionnaire. The online questionnaire was developed based on the themes or the items identifiedfrom the previous research on social media use. The study was an e-Cohort study. Identify and discuss the ethicalconsiderations for this study. While conducting a research, a research needs to follow basic ethical guidelines under theData protection Act of 1998. These ethical principles along with guidance help the researcher toconduct the research in a streamlined manner, without any legal hassle (Brinkmann 2014).Moreover, a research which s based on the survey questionnaire needs consent from the participantsbefore performing the survey. The participants who were not interested to take part in the surveyshould never be forced (Best and Kahn 2016). Moreover, the researcher needs to be aware about thedegree of biasness. Proper protection of the collected data is important in order to make the researchauthentic. On the other hand, the research data obtained must never be used for other purpose, apartfrom that particular research for which the data has been collected. The researcher also needs toreduce the biasness such that, the chance variance and the standard rate of error can be reduced,making the data authentic (Bryman 2015).In this research, the contact details of the nurse were stored separately from the entire surveyresponse in order to maintain the confidentiality and anonymity of the survey procedure thus,abiding by the ethical consideration. Prior ethical approval was obtained via the Human ResearchEthics committees of the participating universities. Explain how the data was collectedand analyzed.The Graduated e-cohort Study (GeS) was first implemented on 2008 and was named assurvey1. Further, the survey was conducted on the newer group of nurses and midwifery graduatesfrom Australia and New Zealand, until 2014. A proper questionnaire was formed in 2008 and thefurther questions were modified according to the topic of interview or survey. Finally, as a sub-studyof the GeS, five more questions were selected in the end of the survey seven, in the year 2014. Atthe end of the process, some 155 and 95 questions were sorted from the answers. On this open-endedquestion, a single participant provided multiple responses. These responses varied in length andimpact and all of these responses contributed in the data collection (Tuckett and Turner 2016). Descriptive statistics was selected to collect data from question 1, 2 and 5 and from the open-ended question 3 and 4 the data was subjected to thematic analysis. This is a qualitative analysisprocess in the research and used to emphasizing pinpointing and examining the recorded patterns(Joffe 2012). Hence, the primary theme for data analysis was already provided and the data wasjudged based on that theme. Different pieces of data responses were assigned with a code so that

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