Implementing social media into nursing education

Social Media and Free Open Access Medical Education: The Future of Medical and Nursing Education?

Integrating Social Media in Education

In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework o...

Social Media and Microbiology Education

Social media consists of Internet technologies that allow users to create and share content, and to foster dialogues among other users. Examples include software applications for communication (blogging, social networking, discussion forums), collaboration (wikis, social bookmarking), and multimedia (sharing photographs, video, and livecasting). In the world of science, social media is becoming...

Infusing gerontological nursing content into advanced practice nursing education.

The inclusion of gerontology content in the nursing curriculum is paramount as our population of older adults grows. As one of 10 recipients of the John A. Hartford Foundation/AACN awards for Enhancing Gerontological and Geriatric Nursing Education for Advanced Practice Nursing Programs, we successfully integrated gerontological/ geriatric content throughout core courses for all concentrations ...

Integrating nursing into oral chemotherapy education.

81 Background:The shift of chemotherapy administration from the oncology infusion suite to the home has unwound systems and left patients vulnerable to errors. Many of the safeguards for parenteral chemotherapy, including education by an oncology nurse, are absent for oral chemotherapy. The 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology/Oncology Nursing Society Standards served as the framework for...