Twitter An Application To Encourage Information Seeking Among Nursing Students

Keywords

Educational technology; Nurse practitioner; Nursing education; Social media; Twitter messaging

Abstract

Twitter is a social networking application that has seen limited evaluation in nursing education. The aim of this study was to determine if Twitter could be used to stimulate further exploration about current clinical and professional topics with nurse practitioner students. The students used Twitter to receive tweets on clinical and professional topics from the instructor throughout the semester: 75% demonstrated willingness to follow the links in the tweets to seek more information, and 87% expressed a desire to receive the tweets even after the semester was over.

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Nurse Educator

Volume

41

Issue

3

Number of Pages

160-163

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000235

Socpus ID

84950146722 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84950146722

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