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Title: Web-based social media for professional medical education: perspectives of senior stakeholders in the nursing home sector.
Authors: Kitching, Fiona
Winbolt, Margaret
MacPhail, Aleece
Ibrahim, Joseph E.
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Place of publication: London, UK
Publication Title: Nurse Education Today
Volume: 35
Issue: 12
Start Page: 1192
End Page: 1198
Abstract: Participatory web-based platforms, including social media, have been recognised as valuable learning tools in healthcare education for over a decade. Use of these platforms is now widespread in tertiary education. It is less widely accepted as a tool for continuing professional education and development at the industry level. This study explores perspectives of senior stakeholders in the nursing home sector to explore perceived benefits, barriers and risks for use in professional education. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews of ‘high level’ clinical and executive staff from a cross section of nursing home stakeholder organisations. Established printed educational material (PEM) was used as a case study for adaptation to web-based social applications. Questions were designed to gather information about the interviewee's views on the potential to apply PEM to programs such as blogs, Twitter and YouTube to deliver education and aid communication in the sector. Twelve participants from eleven stakeholder organisations took part in the study. Most participants were cautious about the use of social media programs in continuing professional education. Participants described the benefits (contemporary information, delivered rapidly, varying formats) and barriers (credibility of information, potential misinterpretation, sector demographics, time constraints) to uptake of these programs. The majority of participants preferred formal e-learning programs to web-based social media applications. Reservations expressed about the use of social media, such as accuracy, legal and privacy risks to the organisation reflected those previously expressed by the broader medical community.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11054/794
Resource Link: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/277414724_Web-based_social_media_for_professional_medical_education_Perspectives_of_senior_stakeholders_in_the_nursing_home_sector
ISSN: 0260-6917
Internal ID Number: 00780
Health Subject: EDUCATION, CONTINUING
EDUCATION - NURSING - CONTINUING
MEDICAL STAFF, EDUCATION
NURSING HOMES
SOCIAL MEDIA
Type: Journal Article
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