Nurses Guidelines for Using Social Media by Finnish Nurses Association

: Arifulla D, Olli J, Merasto M

Publisher: I O S PRESS, PO BOX 10558, BURKE, VA 22009-0558 USA

: 2016

: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

: NURSING INFORMATICS 2016: EHEALTH FOR ALL: EVERY LEVEL COLLABORATION - FROM PROJECT TO REALIZATION

: STUD HEALTH TECHNOL

: 225

: 617

: 618

: 2

: 978-1-61499-657-6

: 0926-9630

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-617

To encourage the use of social media, Finnish Nurses Association worked on social media guidelines. The aim was to strengthen the use of social media as a tool for nurses for sharing of professional knowledge as well as the acquisition of knowledge in their free time and in the work field. Guidelines were based on Nurses Ethical Guidelines and was supplemented by literature review. To enforce the guidelines into action, was nursing twitter chat, #HOIchat, started. In addition, yearly held Finnish Nurses conference had a workshop where anybody could come for detailed information of social media tools and platforms as well as personal lessons how to get started and how to use various social media tools in everyday nursing.