Social media platforms continue to change the healthcare landscape by allowing for users to see a variety of information and points of view. Social media can be used for information and education, marketing, recruiting, and news updates. Healthcare organizations and consumers can utilize social media to improve health and knowledge. Social media can also be used for research, disease tracking, and to monitor trends. This paper discusses the controversial public health topic of abortion and what people are saying regarding it on Twitter. Also discussed are the positive and negative influences that social media has on healthcare organizations and consumers and how the role of the nurse informaticist relates to this. Research Methods Abortion …show more content…
Healthcare institutions, organizations, and consumers in today’s healthcare environment can utilize social media to their advantage to provide and seek education, services available, and information related to healthcare. Conversely, social media is able to negatively perpetuate harassment and trolling. While collecting tweets there were also several disturbing images attached to the tweets. Social media can negatively influence healthcare institutions, organizations, and consumers in today’s healthcare environment by providing false information, manipulation, and …show more content…
L., Storey, H. L., & Prager, S. W. (2015). Exploring abortion attitudes of US adolescents and young adults using social media. Contraception, 91(3), 226-233. doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2014.11.009 Hebda, T., & Czar, P. (2013) Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals, 5th Edition. Pearson. Trader, J. (2013, June 24). Social media and healthcare: Navigating the new communications landscape. Healthcare IT News. Retrieved from http://www.healthcareitnews.com/blog/social-media-and-healthcare-navigating-new-communications-landscape Trowbridge, A. (2014, January 23). Abortion debate increasingly going digital. CBS News. Retrieved from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-debate-increasingly-going-digital/ Twitter. (2018). Getting started. Retrieved from https://help.twitter.com/en/twitter-guide Twitter. (2018). TweetDeck. Retrieved from
The State of Connecticut Board of Nursing does not have a position statement regarding the use of social media. The use of social media by nurses has steadily increased, and the clarity between what is personal information and what is work-related information has become more unclear. The American Nurses Association has made recommendations for the use of social media by nurses. The guidelines focus on the nurse legal and ethical obligation to protect the patient’s privacy (Spector & Kappel, 2012). With the increased use of technology and our dependence on the digital communications and involvement with social media there are greater threats for patient privacy violations.
This news story is about a young woman that decided to create a twitter hash tag that is called “Shout Your Abortion”. The purpose of this hash tag was for women to speak out about their abortions because of the pandemonium with Planned Parenthood clinic right now, which is stated in the article that “Congress investigates Planned Parenthood and debates cutting off its funding because of undercover videos showing officials of the group’s discussing providing fetal tissue for research” (Lewin). Not many women speak out about their abortions because some people associate it with murder. It’s thought that if more women that have had abortions speak out it may shine a different light on the negativity abortion is made out to be so funding for Planned Parenthood won’t stop and abortion will stay legal.
Founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, the controversial federation known as Planned Parenthood continues to help millions of people internationally to resolve a variety of health problems. Because Planned Parenthood provides abortions, the government of the United States questions if it should continue to fund the clinic. However, there are several reasons, such as abortions, cancer screenings, and vaccines, that give rise to the federal subsidization of Planned Parenthood. Life does not always follows a person’s agenda, and Planned Parenthood knows that, which is the main reason it performs abortions. In 2005, a website named Guttmatcher Institute collected data concerning the women who request abortions from approximately 38 different
On the basis of the sociological imagination, the behavior and attitudes of people be perceived in the context of the social forces that shape their actions.. Wright Mills developed the theory, and he stressed that the changes in society have an enormous impact on our lives. Before 1970, legal abortions were unheard of in the United States and the people perceived abortion as a taboo and a despicable act. However, once the law was changed so that doctors could perform legal abortions, the attitude of the people changed. To prove the fact that abortion is a social problem, we need to look at the components of a social issue.
The data suggest that indeed, Canada is a highly wired country, and one that depends on the web and technology. With this data, it is no longer surprising to know that social media use is also prevalent among Canadians. But social sites like Twitter.com aren’t just used for entertainment and communications. Today, there’s a growing trend among health care professionals particularly licensed practical nurses to use social media to perform some of their roles for patients. Although it may seems that social media and health care provision are not compatible, the following uses and applications will help change minds and perspectives.
Annotated Bibliography "Abortion ProCon.org." ProConorg Headlines. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2016.
Jost, Kenneth. " Abortion Debates." CQ Researcher 21 Mar. 2003: 249-72. Web. 27 July 2015.
Thesis Statement: Abortion has been a major topic throughout the years, there has been much debate between pro-choice and pro-life but if people can come together to reach comprises it could help society make positive progress. There are many different views and opinions on abortion in today’s world. Some would say that abortion is wrong and others would say it is right; and some would say it is wrong or right depending on the circumstances. This is when complications surface and people began to look at all aspects of the situation. Abortion has always been a controversial social issue but not as potent as the year 2016 and 2017.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Campaign #banbossy tried to empower women through social media photography. Oprah Winfry’s four lines to her women follower, sent out to 21 million followers. “HelloRuby” a project by Linda Lukas, a feminist to raise the awareness and funds to help the women who wishes to go for higher studies but facing financial hurdles. “PinkStinks” was an online company to hit the companies of toy makers, clothes and projecting the women as crazy pink lovers and lovey dovey sides only in their advertisements and publicity material. It was one awareness campaign to challenge the stereotypes.
Understanding and utilizing new media communication tools to engage and inform publics is essential to any organization’s success. For the LGS Foundation, this sentiment is even more crucial because the business function is reliant on supporting and educating families of LGS patients. The following report will address how the LGS Foundation currently employs new media in its day-to-day operations by discussing: • Platforms utilized and their cohesion • One-way vs. two-way communication • Topics covered using new media • Response to publics via new media • Organizational voice as seen via new media Platforms Utilized Currently, the LGS Foundation utilizes eight new media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, online forum,
Here, the social media act as a central component in communication within and across various branches of any organization. Organizations have widened their outlook to create a culture that is acceptable at global level. Today the organization culture has become more information-driven and knowledge-oriented. You need to be updated regarding all the advances in your field of work.
The conflict over abortion in America has been a major social problem in our nation for decades. During the 1960 's and 70 's with the coinciding civil rights movement and women’s rights movement, abortion became the new national issue that we still see today between two opposing ideologies, grouped into sides coined as pro-life and pro-choice. It is one of the biggest debates over whose morals and beliefs are adequate for our society that make the abortion issue such a controversial and divisive one. Each side believes that their views and beliefs are what we are a society should follow and belief.
Among the developed countries with liberal laws pertaining to abortion, United States, New Zealand and England have the highest rates of teen pregnancy at 57, 51, and 47 per 100 adolescents respectively (Sedgh et al. 5). In the Sub-Saharan
The Contextual Project Work enables the student to view the learning concepts in the Real-life activities. As the student expresses their views and perspectives on the learned concepts it helps them to project their minds to what is new, what needs to be changed in their practice and what needs to be strengthened. It is a mind transformation method of learning that ensures the students understands all aspects of knowledge as they apply to different settings. Concept 1: Foundation of nursing informatics Introduction: Simply stated informatics is the application of computer science and information science.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.