Can Social Media/FOAM Influence Our Education?

By Kane Guthrie FCENA

ME

Crowd Sourcing

Web 2.0 = Social Media

Searching & sourcing informationSorting, saving & storing

Staying up-to-dateSharing

Social networking

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/web-20-for-emergency-physicians/

Nurses vs Web 2.0

• Lot’s of negative connotations• Where behind the Drs on this stuff• Enhance the care we provide• Create own digital footprint • Its all about conversation, education &

collaboration.

Joe Lex

Death of the Textbook?

I’m Not Anti Tradition!

Note Taking

Lets not call it Social Media

Free Open Access Meducation

The Benefits

• Knowledge/concept sharing– Around the world

• Asynchronous learning• Rebranded social media• Enhance our credibility• Follow/engage conferences/course #NPD100

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/web-20-for-emergency-physicians/

Flip the Classroom

Asynchronous Learning

• Meshes nicely with adult learning theory• Adults learn best – being self directed• Web based media• Interactive• Future of education

Kahn Academy

Uni Mobile Learning Teaching

EMCC Blogs - Podcasts

• Over 190 EMCC blogs/podcasts• 17 different countries• 5 ED nursing related!

Digital Footprint

• Google yourself• You need to control your online presence• Control the risk

Social Media

• Facebook is outTwitter• Best value:– Your time– Your education – Engaging with others– Staying up to date

Google FOAM

The App

Infoamatica

Research

The Pitfalls

• Evidence• Information overload• Merge our private & public personas • Peer review• Regulations, policy, guidelines

Evidence

Academic Medicine, June 2013, Vol 88, p.893-901

The Data

Information Overload

Controlling the Overload

Merging Private & Public Personas

Engagement

Peer Review

Peer Review

Peer Review

De-personalised

Playing Safe

• Don’t look up/follow patients• When in doubt pause• Don’t post anything that can ID pt• Follow social media policies

If you don’t get it….

Nursing is changing.

Never before have we had the opportunity to learn from, and communicate with our

colleagues with such ease.

It is truly the time of inter-nurisng.

Ian Miller, January 2013.

Questions