Ways How Social Media Use can Violate Ethical Nursing Practices

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Describe different ways that social media use can violate ethical nursing practices. How can ethical, social media use be beneficial to health care professionals and their patients?
Social media are powerful internet-based tools that allow people to share and create content like images, information, video clips, or opinions. Social media has a lot of benefits in healthcare systems. For example, it enables health care professionals to share information and communicate with people. Although nurses can use social media appropriately, there are some instances they can violate ethical nursing practices. One of the major limitations of social media is the lack of online health information reliability. Social media offers nurses and people a wide range of health information. However, some of the information provided is incomplete ad informal. This makes it difficult for someone to identify the reliability of the information. As a result, nurses end up misleading patients, and this causes potential harm to patients. Violatio...