Social Media in Perioperative Care
Order Instructions:
Read the following article below and answer the following questions below:
Article: “Barry, M. (2015). Social media: Proceed with caution. The American Nurse. Retrieved from http://theamericannurse.org/index.php/2014/01/02/social-media-proceed-with-caution/”
In the perioperative setting, the use of social media can impact patient safety and patient privacy.
Select patient safety OR patient privacy and answer the following questions as the RN member of the perioperative team.
Question: 1- Should personal cell phones and iPads® be allowed in the surgical suite? If, so under what circumstances can cell phones and iPads® be used and what are the ramifications if misuse occurs?
2- Should the informed consent include specific social media use? Why or why not?
Note: APA formatt
reference: at least 2 using article or textbook
Required Textbooks for the term paper and references:
Brunner and Suddarth’s textbook of medical-surgical nursing**
• Chapter 3: Critical Thinking, Ethical Decision Making, and the Nursing Process
• Chapter 17: Preoperative Nursing Management
• Chapter 18: Intraoperative Nursing Management
• Chapter 19: Postoperative Nursing Management
• Chapter 41: Musculoskeletal Care Modalities (section on “The Patient Undergoing Orthopedic Surgery”)
• Chapter 62: Management of Patients with Burn Injury
• Chapter 72: Emergency Nursing (sections on “Frostbite” and “Insect Stings” through “Tick Bites”)
Pharmacology: A patient-centered nursing process approach**
• Chapter 14: Medications and Calculations
• Chapter 50: Drugs for Dermatologic Disorders (section on “Burns and Burn Preparations”)
Maternal & Child Health Nursing**
• Chapter 37: Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Needs Diagnostic or Therapeutic Modalities
• Chapter 51: Nursing Care of the Family When the Child has a Musculoskeletal Disorder (section on “Disorders of Skeletal Structure”)
• Chapter 52: Nursing Care of a Family when a Child has an Unintentional Injury (section on “Caustic Poisoning, Bites, and Thermal Injuries”)
Nursing Diagnosis
• Use your chosen Nursing Diagnosis Guidebook to review the nursing diagnoses specific to the content covered in this module.
Web based and Other Professional Resources:
• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
• Hospital: 2016 National Patient Safety Goals**
• Pre-licensure KSAs (2014)**
• Social media: Proceed with caution (2015)
SAMPLE ANSWER
Social Media in Perioperative Care
In recent years, use of social media as a tool of communication has taken the world by a storm. This has been fueled by the emergence of new technologies in communication. Individuals in various settings can pass messages instantly to large audiences through phone camera, twitter, Skype, Facebook, you tube among other methods.
However, in the perioperative setting, it is important to consider a patients safety and privacy when applying social media as an avenue for communication among health personnel. It is important for nurses and other health workers to weigh how confidential any information regarding a patient is before making it public on social media platforms (Sarasohn-Kahn, 2012). In case of a breach of the patients confidentiality, it raises legal concerns whereby a health worker can end up losing his/or her job and their practice licenses withdrawn. Moreover use of cell phones and iPads during health operations may lead to distractions adding in to the complications of an operation environment. This puts a patient’s life at stake and may lead to death (Soto et al. 2012)
In view of the above statements, clear guidelines should be set regarding how and when perioperative professionals use their cell phones and iPads during working hours. This should be done considering a patient safety which is a priority (Brunner, 2014). Resultant impacts on workflow in a health organization should also be considered. Use of these devices should strictly happen within the precincts of the set standards to avoid conflicts. Some of the guidelines that can be used to control the use of these devices are; setting the phone in vibrate or silent mode during operation, interacting with the devices such that it doesn’t interfere with the sterile field among others (Sarasohn-Kahn, 2012). Organizations could also decide to burn the use of phones during critical stages of perioperative care.
References
Brunner, L. S. (2014). Brunner & Suddarth’s textbook of medical-surgical nursing (Vol. 1). S. C. C. Smeltzer, B. G. Bare, J. L. Hinkle, & K. H. Cheever (Eds.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Sarasohn-Kahn, J. (2012). The wisdom of patients: Health care meets online social media.
Soto, R. G., Chu, L. F., Goldman, J. M., Rampil, I. J., & Ruskin, K. J. (2012). Communication in critical care environments: mobile telephones improve patient care. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 102(2), 535-541.
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