Question

Describe different ways

that social media use can violate ethical nursing practices. How can ethical social media use be beneficial to health care professionals and their patients?

Answer 1

Answer 1. Social media in simpler terms is the internet based tool which help people to communicate, to provide or gather informations from different sources of the world around. In health care systems, social media plays an important role in managing by the using blogs, social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn , video- and photo-sharing sites or wikipedia. The health care professionals share informations, debate over health care policies and practice issues to promote good health behaviors, to communicate with the public, and to educate and interact with patients, caregivers, students, and fellow colleagues. They also read news articles, listen to experts, research medical developments on social media.
The risks or violation involved here are the lack of quality and reliability of informations given on Internet. The treatment methods or medications of internet, when are followed without references or consultations, might lead to disastrous results affecting the lives of people. Also the posting of unprofessional content on social media also affects the image or reputation of health care systems or organisations. The negative aspects also includes includes violations of patient privacy or the use of profanity or discriminatory languages over different sites or by sharing images of sexual suggestiveness or intoxication or by posting negative comments about patients, an employers, etc.
Answer 2. The ethics to use social media includes many aspect where people of all levels of health care system should take care of. For example, the nurses should take care refraining from posting complaints about patients, employers, or the profession, as well as by maintaining appropriate nurse-client boundaries.
By not breaching the privacte information of the patient on the social media can keep the reputation of the employee and the employer both. Educating the patients about not posting any irrelevant informations or pictures on media to avoid any kind of discrepency. By making strict rules and regulations by the employer can create ethical terms for using Internet or the social media to avoid any kind of violation. The abuse of any kind of medical data should be restricted by keeping privacy and confidentiality of online users.