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Social Media And Privacy In The Nursing Field

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Being involved with the nursing career, it is always respectful and required to keep privacy of the workspace within the environment. As a nurse, it is best to never address any patient’s personal issues to anyone outside the workspace. Social media has been a large issue involving privacy of the patient. It is always required to think twice about what is put on social media for everyone to see. There are good and bad outcomes when it refers to social media and how it is presented, but there are also some risks to it. I believe having certain restrictions with social media with the health care field is reasonable. It is always best to make sure to always have a personal email and a professional email. This should separate your social life with your work life. I believe this is a very good …show more content…

A lot of people become more judgmental when it comes to opinions, following the opinion with evidence it should be stated where the evidence came from. Most likely to find opinion is in blogs which use to be a most common source used. The app twitter is also a known source for people to state their opinions. Which is bad involving that twitter has a character limit of one hundred and forty character, so being able to back up your opinion becomes impossible to have evidence to back up the opinion. Organizations are constantly sweeping the internet to find anyone talking about them in a bad way and the ending result is if you are a student to be taken out of clinical. If you are a worker it could result having to look the job. Sometimes it does not have to be words that could risk your job on social media. If you are a college student and decide to walk into a bar after clinical. Post any sort of picture on the internet with scrubs on in a bar could result to be taken out of clinical or even be

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