Title: Legislative: Nursing's Engagement in Health Policy and Healthcare Through Social Media.
Authors: Ressler, Pamela Katz; Glazer, Greer
Abstract: This article discusses the engagement of nursing in health policy and healthcare in the U.S. through social media. It explores the history of collaborative digital communication in the form of social media and Web 2.0. It highlights some of the challenges facing healthcare environments in the use of social media. In addition, the article enumerates the advantages of social media to nursing, including drug safety alerts from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Subjects: UNITED States; HEALTH policy; APPLICATION software; MEDICAL care; MEDICAL ethics; POLITICAL participation; PRIVACY; SOCIAL networks; WORLD Wide Web; INFORMATION resources; ACCESS to information
Publication: Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 1, p1
ISSN: 1091-3734
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol16No01LegCol01

Legislative: Nursing's Engagement in Health Policy and Healthcare Through Social Media.

Ressler, Pamela Katz; Glazer, Greer