"It is ok to talk about your clinical experience on social media."

Hi All,

Instructions:
1. Post two positive arguments you have on the abovementioned statement.
2. Post two negative arguments you have on the abovementioned statement.
3. Comment on your classmates' arguments.

Don't forget to include your sources.

According to a blog post by "coburgbanks: social media in the workplace"
I've gotten the following pros and cons of clinical experience on social media


Positives:
Morale and employee engagement
Allowing your staff to use social media at work can boost morale and actually improve employee engagement for a number of reasons…
It shows that you trust them (boosting morale and happiness).
It will make them feel valued (it’s like a little perk of the job).
Taking short breaks throughout the day will boost mood (and productivity).
Connecting with loved ones will boost their happiness.
Basically, being able to check social media can make your employees happy (for a variety of reasons). If your employees are happy, they’re more likely to be productive, friendly and loyal. Win-win!

Internal communication
It’s great for improving communication across your company too, particularly if you have multiple offices and/or remote workers.
If you encourage your employees to connect with each other via social media, it will actually make it easier for them to get to know each other and build relationships.
Everyone will be easier to contact and when someone needs help, they just need to post their query on social media and await a reply.

Disadvantages:
Misuse
No matter what your thoughts are on social media in the workplace, it’s pretty safe to say that if you do allow it there will be a certain amount of time-wasted.
It’s just too tempting for employees to have a quick glance, reply to a quick comment or say happy birthday to someone they’d forgotten about…
once it's on social media it can never be erased.


Bullying and harassment
Knowing intimate details about each other’s lives (some people will post anything and everything on Facebook) can encourage and lead to more bullying – or “trolling.”
It’s an open forum for people to pick on others and although your staff members might not do it so blatantly (for fear of getting caught), they may use what they find to harass and ridicule people in the office.

according to (ontent.wisestep.com) pros and cons of using social media at workplace.

Pros of talking about your clinical experience on social media.

• It strengthens your employees and makes there more productive by allowing them to communicate freely with one another. It also allows the management to have an idea about what do their employees think of any new changes. It also successes in boosting employee’s confidence because now they can express themselves freely.

• Increase in productivity because for the employees who cannot keep a proper balance of work life with their daily living, now they can do their assessments from home and ask for help if having any difficulty in understanding. They can also encourage other people to multitask like them by posting their experiences and by letting them know about new techniques.

Cons of talking about your clinical experience on social media.

• It is also considered as a major distraction zone at workplace. Social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, snapchat etc. can distract employees from focusing on to their work. For HCA’s its important to focus on their tasks because a single negligence can lead to a big problem.

• Technical risks are the second major issue because talking about your personal life with someone that you don’t know can lead to a major problem. Viruses are also considered as threads which can affect your personal information on social media.

The list of communication techniques that I found that Eve used with Peter are:

1. Non verbal
2. Closed ended
3. Focusing
4. Passive-Aggressive
5. Interpersonal

Eve was non verbal with Peter when she just sat with him for a while, and then she mostly used closed ended questions with him as she used focusing to discuss this Jenny person.

She got a little passive aggressive with Peter when she told him "you can't marry her. She is already married" and that was the end of their interpersonal communication.

According to hospital careers, the following pros and cons of talking about your clinical experience on social media.

Negative:
.We have to promote our clients' privacy and confidentiality by not talking about our clinical experience on any social media because it can be an invasion of privacy to our clients which is unprofessional and inappropriate especially in a health care profession.

. As our primary goal is to put our clients' safety first we have to be careful when it comes to privacy by considering that all the information concerning our clients must be kept confidential.
. Social media can harm employment stability or opportunities. One major con of social media is that it can potentially harm your employment stability or future employment opportunities based on what you say or do on your accounts.
. Social media sites promote inappropriate behavior. Another con associated with social media sites is that they can promote inappropriate behavior due to the disconnection from the physical world.
As so much of the interactions on a social media platform occur digitally and online, people think that they can do or say things without any consequences.


positive:
.• Social media allows for quick and easy dissemination of public health and safety information. Social media is a great way for individuals to gather public health and safety info and recommendations.
Social media is a useful way for healthcare professionals to share public notices and make sure that individuals are aware of the importance of new medical procedures and safety standards.
. One aspect of social media many don’t realize is that social media allows individuals to share and showcase their academic achievements as well. so it's a way to show all the achievements.

In concluding the use of social media is unprofessional and should not be used in sharing clinical experience.

Good one Ninon!

I definitely agree with it being unprofessional as well.
As much as it is so easy to access people on social media it puts everyone's privacy/confidentiality at risk.

PROS:
Raises Awareness-  the most powerful benefits of social media is the ability for a person to raise awareness of an important issue to the audience quickly. To promote change and make a positive difference around the world.

Creates and Maintains Relationships-  opportunity to stay in touch with people from all around the world.



CONS:
Promotes fake news- has the opportunity to share information to a massive audience and can do so from an anonymous profile.

Encourages anti- social behavior- if not used properly can have hazardous consequences to our mental health. When we spend too much time consuming biased or misleading content, this can make us feel inadequate, often leading to sever psychological and physical issue including low self- esteem and negative body image.

Based on the website: ontheline.org.au

Barbra could approach David in a professional manner and assist in getting Mr Roberts safely where he needs to be and then address the matter of David not following the care plan because he did not wait for assistance. Barbra could recommend to David to follow the care plan first and foremost, ask/ wait for assistance when needed which he did in this case as Mr Roberts has ACL( Injury to the knee) therefore that was not something Mr Roberts could handle without proper assistance.
The LPN and the Physiotherapist should all be made aware of the situation.
Two ways interpersonal communication could be improves are:
1. HCA Barbra could have clarified the task to David in her absence
2. David could have been more assertive with the Physiotherapist and let him know that was a good or safe thing to do

According to aliem.comNegative side of social media
Physicians should weigh a number of considerations when maintaining a presence online:

Physicians should be cognizant of standards of patient privacy and confidentiality that must be maintained in all environments, including online, and must refrain from posting identifiable patient information online.
When using the Internet for social networking, physicians should use privacy settings to safeguard personal information and content to the extent possible, but should realize that privacy settings are not absolute and that once on the Internet, content is likely there permanently. Thus, physicians should routinely monitor their own Internet presence to ensure that the personal and professional information on their own sites and, to the extent possible, content posted about them by others, is accurate and appropriate.
If they interact with patients on the Internet, physicians must maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship in accordance with professional ethical guidelines just, as they would in any other context.
To maintain appropriate professional boundaries physicians should consider separating personal and professional content online.
When physicians see content posted by colleagues that appears unprofessional they have a responsibility to bring that content to the attention of the individual, so that he or she can remove it and/or take other appropriate actions. If the behavior significantly violates professional norms and the individual does not take appropriate action to resolve the situation, the physician should report the matter to appropriate authorities.
Physicians must recognize that actions online and content posted may negatively affect their reputations among patients and colleagues, may have consequences for their medical careers (particularly for physicians-in-training and medical students), and can undermine public trust in the medical profession.
Positive side of social media
On the flip side, Greysen et al wrote a nice commentary piece in the Journal of General Internal Medicine about the positive applications of social media in Medicine.

Provide insightful and respectful reflection narratives about clinical experiences that maintain patient anonymity.
Promote quality improvement and patient safety guidelines
Serve as a trustworthy source of medical information to balance less-reliable online resources
To quote the authors: “Much like a mirror, social media can reflect the best and worst aspects of the content placed before it for all to see.”

Social media is here to stay. Let’s figure out how to work with it rather than avoid it.