Social media and nursing. Well, because there's so strict confidentiality obligation, it's quite hard to think about ways of using social media. At least at first. But then I remembered that for example OYS has been trying out and taking for daily use these tablet PC:s. Nurses and doctors are using tablets to document everything and what I've heard, it has really eased up documenting. It's an easy way to document while you're with the patient and make sure, that you will remember to document every single detail and not forgetting half while taking care of other patients and getting to document when your shift is almost over. This is not actually social media, at least I don't think so, but it's related to it and I think that it's quite interesting, how you can unite using tablets and nursing.
There has also been conversation about future hospitals and doctors. Let's take the doctors and see, what future may give them and patients. In future, it could be possible, that you wouldn't need to go to the hospital at all, but you could sit back on your computer and take care of a doctor's appointment through it. I don't quite remember how this was told to be possible on one magazine I read, but it was something like this: you could tap your symptoms to one kind of an application and it would run through it's large amount of knowledge and finally give you a diagnosis. After that you could chat with your doctor, who would know about this diagnosis and through chat determine if the diagnosis is right and then give you a right recipe. If any blood samples or something is needed, there would be maybe one nurse, who would come straight away and take this sample and deliver it to the laboratory. This sounds funny and quite scary, because how much this will increase the risk of wrong diagnosis or even the risk of wrong medication? But this might be everyday convention for our children or grandchildren.
There has also been conversation about future hospitals and doctors. Let's take the doctors and see, what future may give them and patients. In future, it could be possible, that you wouldn't need to go to the hospital at all, but you could sit back on your computer and take care of a doctor's appointment through it. I don't quite remember how this was told to be possible on one magazine I read, but it was something like this: you could tap your symptoms to one kind of an application and it would run through it's large amount of knowledge and finally give you a diagnosis. After that you could chat with your doctor, who would know about this diagnosis and through chat determine if the diagnosis is right and then give you a right recipe. If any blood samples or something is needed, there would be maybe one nurse, who would come straight away and take this sample and deliver it to the laboratory. This sounds funny and quite scary, because how much this will increase the risk of wrong diagnosis or even the risk of wrong medication? But this might be everyday convention for our children or grandchildren.
Through social media patients could get peer support and find out about their diseases. Well, they can also now Google it and wait for cancer diagnosis to appear, but it might ease up thing if there was some kind of an application, which has gathered right contents from every diseases and conditions and would give you right information, when you search with name or just symptoms. Also there could be listed some peer support groups and blogs concerning to your searches.
This is what I could think about using social media on my field of study, it's really hard because of the strict confidentiality obligation. But at least I got something. I've been playing basketball almost my whole life and nowadays I'm also coaching it and acting as a vice-chairman for our department. I've been using social media in many ways to keep in touch with the players, their parents and interested people. I've also used it to advertise our sport and to get some new interested people to try it. I think that I could use social media even more, because these days everyone is using it and our sport would get much more attention, if it's advertised through social media.
First thing what I did, when I started coaching was to create a WhatsApp-group for our team. That's an easy way to keep up with the players and announce, if there's any changes or something with schedules etc. Also it was a great way for team members to get to know each other by chatting through WhatsApp. At first I exchanged messages with parents through emails but after maybe a year, almost every one of them had also WhatsApp and we created a group for parents and coach also. That really eased messaging and changing thoughts and finding operators for everything.
As my next move, I created a group for Facebook. There interested people could follow up our schedules and stuff, but pretty soon I discovered that it would be easier to create a site for our sport. I did it and now everyone can just like it and get our news straight to their news feed. It's easier, because I don't need to accept them as a group members but they can like the site and participate to everything.
I've been using Facebook and its groups also as an advertisement tool. I made up nice pictures with information about our schedules and happenings and groups and then just posted them into different groups in Facebook. Thanks to Facebook there's been quite many new players and interested people. In a way our site is also an advertisement tool, because when I post something to it, post will pop up for my friends and for friends of them, who has liked about our site. Also I'm guessing that Facebook will offer it to people who has liked about something similar. So Facebook is free and practical way of advertising something.
I've been also responsible for our websites the whole time, updating some news and pictures from our events and games etc. Using social media you can get visibility for your website also, because it's really easy to share something from our website in Facebook or Instagram or Twitter.. If I update something with a certain hashtag to my Instagram, it will go straight to front page of our website also. That way people can keep up with current happenings and get to look our normal days and events, if they can't be participating. I've been thinking about creating an own Instagram account for your team, but I haven't created it yet because I'm not sure, there would be enough pictures etc. to keep this account alive. Maybe I'll create it when the fall comes, but I'm not so sure about that.
As you can notice, there's many ways using social media as a tool with your studies or career or hobby etc. This "list" even hasn't everything, there's much more how you can benefit it but at this time, I won't write about them anymore. I really think that social media will ease up advertising and tempting new persons for a certain things and maybe it will even lower people's doorstep to participate some events and new hobbies.
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