Meaningful use of Twitter in nursing education may improve student learning and should be considered as a viable educational tool to assist in the development of digital professionalism

Booth, Richard; O'Connor, Siobhan

Abstract

Meaningful use of Twitter in nursing education may improve student learning and should be considered as a viable educational tool to assist in the development of digital professionalism.

Commentary on: Jones R, Kelsey J, Nelmes P, et al. Introducing
Twitter as an assessed component of the undergraduate
nursing curriculum. J Adv Nurs 2016;72:1638–53.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2016
• Publication Date: 2017-01
• Deposit Date: Dec 27, 2016
• Journal: Evidence-Based Nursing
• Print ISSN: 1367-6539
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-9618
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 28-28
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2016-102465
• Keywords: Nurse education, social media, Twitter,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/458760