Exploring educational interventions to facilitate health professional students’ professionally safe online presence
| Autor: | Tim J Wilkinson, Kwong Djee Chan, Jo Hilder, Judy McKimm, Joanna MacDonald, Helen Moriarty, Menna Brown, Marcus A. Henning, Susan J. Hawken, Susan Gasquoine |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Health Occupations Students Medical 020205 medical informatics Health Personnel 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Education Social Networking 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Medicine Humans Social media 030212 general & internal medicine Qualitative Research Data collection business.industry Online presence management Australia General Medicine Focus Groups Aotearoa Focus group Content analysis Thematic analysis business computer Social Media Qualitative research Education Medical Undergraduate New Zealand |
| Popis: | Objective: To establish the most effective approach and type of educational intervention for health professional students, to enable them to maintain a professionally safe online presence. Method: This was a qualitative, multinational, multi-institutional, multiprofessional study. Practical considerations (availability of participants) led us to use a combination of focus groups and individual interviews, strengthening our findings by triangulating our method of data collection. The study gathered data from 57 nursing, medical and paramedical students across four sites in three countries (Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Wales). A content analysis was conducted to clarify how and why students used Facebook and what strategies they thought might be useful to ensure professional usage. A series of emergent codes were examined and a thematic analysis undertaken from which key themes were crystallized. Results: The results illuminated the ways in which students use social networking sites (SNS). The three key themes to emerge from the data analysis were negotiating identities, distancing and risks. Students expressed the wish to have material about professional safety on SNS taught to them by authoritative figures to explain “the rules” as well as by peers to assist with practicalities. Our interactive research method demonstrated the transformative capacity of the students working in groups. Conclusions: Our study supports the need for an educational intervention to assist health professional students to navigate SNS safely and in a manner appropriate to their future roles as health professionals. Because health professional students develop their professional identity throughout their training, we suggest that the most appropriate intervention incorporate small group interactive sessions from those in authority, and from peers, combined with group work that facilitates and enhances the students’ development of a professional identity. |
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