Using Social Media to Disseminate Published Evidence to Nurses in a Health System

Nemeth, John; Allison, Amy; Travis, Lisa deMena; Brown, Carolyn M.

doi:10.1080/15424065.2016.1197080

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“…Such research is now available, indicating that social medial platforms do augment the development of learning and professional identity [2,5,16]. Within this Australian University, professional identity is an important graduate attribute.…”

Section: Digital Professionalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Development, monitoring and evaluation of the usefulness of emerging technologies within tertiary learning and teaching environments, to ensure best practice is embedded within curricula, is necessary [1][2][3]. Concurrently, social media use for collaboration, networking and information sharing is being explored to prepare students and educate health professionals to work effectively in healthcare settings [4][5][6][7]. The Free Open Access Medical Education online community is an example where a range of social media platforms have been used to effectively link informal groups of health professionals [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The creation of information repositories (such as blogs/wikis) incorporated in the curriculum can further increase access to information and promote information sharing as the respondents indicated familiarity with Wikipedia and the use of blogs in some contexts. According to Nemeth and co-workers [5], blogs can reduce information overload by curating content. These strategies are worthy of consideration to enhance informal learning in higher education.…”

Section: Informal Learning Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Identifying Opportunities to Integrate Digital Professionalism into Curriculum: A Comparison of Social Media Use by Health Profession Students at an Australian University in 2013 and 2016

2017

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Social media has become ubiquitous to modern life. Consequently, embedding digital professionalism into undergraduate health profession courses is now imperative and augmenting learning and teaching with mobile technology and social media on and off campus is a current curriculum focus. The aim of this study was to explore whether patterns of social media use for personal or informal learning by undergraduate health profession students enrolled at an Australian university across four campuses has changed over time. A previously validated online survey was administered in 2013 to a cohort of health profession students as part of an Australian survey. In 2016, the same survey was distributed to a later cohort of health profession students. Three open-ended questions to elicit descriptive information regarding the use of social media for study purposes were added to the later survey. A comparative analysis of both cohorts was undertaken and social media acceptance and penetration was shown to increase. Health profession students are now more interactive users of Facebook and Twitter, and they have become more familiar with career development sites, such as LinkedIn. The maturation of social media platforms within a three-year period has created realistic opportunities to integrate social media for personal and study purposes into the health profession education curriculum to ensure student understanding of the necessity for maintaining digital professionalism in the workplace.

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Section: Digital Professionalismmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Informal Learning Opportunitiesmentioning

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Identifying Opportunities to Integrate Digital Professionalism into Curriculum: A Comparison of Social Media Use by Health Profession Students at an Australian University in 2013 and 2016

2017

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Providing meaningful information: Part D—Current awareness

Jewell

2018

A Practical Guide for Informationists

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#Dissemination: a systematic review of the role of social media in circulating healthcare research (Preprint)

Farris¹,

Todd²,

Tomlin³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND Social media is a relatively new and popular means of disseminating information. However, regarding healthcare research there are concerns over the ability of social media to reach healthcare professionals, and its ability to convey a message that is representative of the research itself. To our knowledge, a review was yet to be conducted concerning the effective use of social media in communicating healthcare research OBJECTIVE The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of social media as a dissemination tool regarding healthcare research to professionals in the field. METHODS A scoping review was conducted to inform the search strategy. We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and conducted manual searches from March 2018 to August 2019, for peer-reviewed publications in English describing the effectiveness of social media in disseminating health research to healthcare professionals. No publication time restrictions were imposed. Social media was used to identify additional peer-reviewed papers. For all selected studies, an MMAT quality assessment was undertaken. RESULTS Forty-seven studies were identified for inclusion. The papers reviewed suggest that social media was a popular and effective means of disseminating health research findings. In particular, the use of Twitter was highlighted regarding its positive relationship with citations. Crucially, dissemination on social media was advantageous over purely using traditional methods. CONCLUSIONS Despite concerns over the value of using social media to encourage awareness of healthcare, overall, our review suggests a positive contribution. It provides a useful way of research to effectively reach healthcare professionals (as indicated by citation levels), whilst not misrepresenting research findings. Unfortunately, only four papers directly compared presence with absence of social media promotion. Given the apparent utility of social media for healthcare research, we would encourage more direct comparisons to be made promptly. CLINICALTRIAL PROSPERO Registration: CRD42018102083.

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Using Social Media to Disseminate Published Evidence to Nurses in a Health System

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Identifying Opportunities to Integrate Digital Professionalism into Curriculum: A Comparison of Social Media Use by Health Profession Students at an Australian University in 2013 and 2016

Identifying Opportunities to Integrate Digital Professionalism into Curriculum: A Comparison of Social Media Use by Health Profession Students at an Australian University in 2013 and 2016

Providing meaningful information: Part D—Current awareness

#Dissemination: a systematic review of the role of social media in circulating healthcare research (Preprint)

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