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Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19

OBJECTIVES: Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID‐19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic. DESIGN: Mixed methods. SAMPLE: Ten‐thousand five‐hundred and seventy‐four tweets by 2790 indi...

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Autores principales: O'Leary, Lisa, Erikainen, Sonja, Peltonen, Laura‐Maria, Ahmed, Wasim, Thelwall, Mike, O'Connor, Siobhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34687078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phn.12994
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author O'Leary, Lisa
Erikainen, Sonja
Peltonen, Laura‐Maria
Ahmed, Wasim
Thelwall, Mike
O'Connor, Siobhan
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Erikainen, Sonja
Peltonen, Laura‐Maria
Ahmed, Wasim
Thelwall, Mike
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description OBJECTIVES: Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID‐19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic. DESIGN: Mixed methods. SAMPLE: Ten‐thousand five‐hundred and seventy‐four tweets by 2790 individuals and organizations. MEASUREMENTS: NodeXL software was used for social network analysis to produce a network visualization. The betweenness centrality algorithm identified key users who were influential in COVID‐19 related conversations on Twitter. Inductive content analysis enabled exploration of tweet content. A communicative figurations framework guided the study. RESULTS: Nursing actors formed different social groupings, and communicated with one another across groups. Tweets covered four themes; (1) outbreak and clinical management of the infectious disease, (2) education and information sharing, (3) social, economic, and political context, and (4) working together and supporting each other. CONCLUSION: In addition to spreading knowledge, nurses tried to reach out through social media to political and healthcare leaders to advocate for improvements needed to address COVID‐19. However, they primarily conversed within their own professional community. Action is needed to better understand how social media is and can be used by nurses for health communication, and to improve their preparedness to be influential on social media beyond the nursing community.
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spelling pubmed-86618652021-12-10 Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19 O'Leary, Lisa Erikainen, Sonja Peltonen, Laura‐Maria Ahmed, Wasim Thelwall, Mike O'Connor, Siobhan Public Health Nurs Case Studies OBJECTIVES: Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID‐19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic. DESIGN: Mixed methods. SAMPLE: Ten‐thousand five‐hundred and seventy‐four tweets by 2790 individuals and organizations. MEASUREMENTS: NodeXL software was used for social network analysis to produce a network visualization. The betweenness centrality algorithm identified key users who were influential in COVID‐19 related conversations on Twitter. Inductive content analysis enabled exploration of tweet content. A communicative figurations framework guided the study. RESULTS: Nursing actors formed different social groupings, and communicated with one another across groups. Tweets covered four themes; (1) outbreak and clinical management of the infectious disease, (2) education and information sharing, (3) social, economic, and political context, and (4) working together and supporting each other. CONCLUSION: In addition to spreading knowledge, nurses tried to reach out through social media to political and healthcare leaders to advocate for improvements needed to address COVID‐19. However, they primarily conversed within their own professional community. Action is needed to better understand how social media is and can be used by nurses for health communication, and to improve their preparedness to be influential on social media beyond the nursing community. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-22 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8661865/ /pubmed/34687078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phn.12994 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Public Health Nursing published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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