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2013

Nursing

The University of Notre Dame Australia

Health care practitioners

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The Use Of Social Media In Undergraduate Curriculum, K Clark-Burg, P Carr, B Hay, K Mcnaught Jan 2013

The Use Of Social Media In Undergraduate Curriculum, K Clark-Burg, P Carr, B Hay, K Mcnaught

Nursing Papers and Journal Articles

Social media (SoMe) and mobile technology (MT) have been topics of interest to many educators, health professionals and policy developers over the last decade. This year, two editorials in leading nursing journals have described the potential for SoMe in nursing (Jones & Hayter 2013; Ferguson 2013). A recent Australian journal publication further supports the potential of SoMe and in particular Twitter (Wilson, R, et al. 2013). Increasingly, nurses and other health professionals and the general public are actively utilizing new technology to improve health and enhance practice (Barton, A 2012)]. To-date, there is limited evidence on the use of information …