Professional Communication Tools: Social Networking

Order Description
After reading the American Nurses Association principles on social networking and the nurse earlier address the following:

Does social networking have a place in the professional life of a nurse? Support your opinion.
How might social networking support patient care?

Resources:
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals text to complete the following:

Chapter 5, “Professional Use of Electronic Resources,” pages 100–112. After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
Identify examples of online sources for health care information and services useful to health care professionals.
Discuss typical resources found on a professional organization’s Web site.
Describe basic aspects of e-learning.
Relate how wikis and blogs might be used in online learning.
Explain the use of Web-based learning objects.
Discuss possible roles of virtual worlds in educating health care professionals.
Identify specific kinds of online services available to health care professionals.
Name specific online publications for health care professionals.
Describe typical marketing services useful to health care professionals.
Discuss selected technology and techniques for managing information.
Use the Internet to complete the following:

Review the materials on the American Nurses Association’s Social Networking Principles Toolkit.

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