The Nurse's Social Media Advantage - How Making Connections and Sharing Ideas Can Enhance Your Nursing Practice (Electronic book text)

Explains the basics about social media, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogging, etc. Devotes an entire chapter to using social media without violating HIPAA regulations and nursing professional code of conduct. Describes how social media tools are being used by patients and their families to access health information. Describes how nurses can use social media to share nursing information with one another. The book is the third volume in STTI's popular "The Nurse's Advantage Series" which uses easy to digest Q&A format, anecdotes, quotes, tips, notes, tables, figures, and other graphics explain and expound upon the subject matter. Written by a young nurse who is pioneering social media to share nursing information with his colleagues.