Social media outlets have become popular mediums for connecting to friends, family, and the general public. With social media use comes positive and negative results. The NCSBN’s White Paper: A Nurse’s Guide to the Use of Social Media below features some interesting accounts involving nurses, inappropriate uses of social media, and the resulting actions from State Boards of Nursing. You will select and analyze one of these scenarios in your assignment this week
Review the ANA’s Fact Sheet: Navigating the World of Social Media.
Review the NCSBN’s White Paper: A Nurse’s Guide to the Use of Social Media.
Select one of the scenarios from pages 4-7 in the NCSBN’s White Paper to focus on in this week’s assignment.
Create a Microsoft Word document and complete the following steps:
Summarize the scenario you have selected in your own words (75-100 words).
Explain how all parties in the scenario may be affected by the nurse’s actions (75-100 words).
Referring to the ANA’s Fact Sheet and the NCSBN’s White Paper, explain how the actions in the scenario violated guidelines for responsible use of social media. Provide specific examples from both documents to support your explanation (100-150 words).
