title: Competences in Social Media Use in the Area of Health and Healthcare.
abstract: In today's life, social media offer new working ways. People are increasingly expanding interactions from face-to-face meetings to online ways of communication, networking, searching, creating and sharing information, and furthermore taking care of patients/citizens via tweeting care, Facebook care, blogging care, vlogging care, infotainment care, gamification-care, infographic care, for instance. This chapter discusses the utilisation of social media in the healthcare domain including nursing education, practice and research. When in the current healthcare era, social media is used effectively and purposefully, it can give all of us a greater choice in how we live, how we take care of our health and how we learn and build both our professional competences and produce evidence-based, qualified data. Nurses need continuous education and proper tools to take the most of the benefits of social media, not forgetting privacy and ethical issues. This use of social media in professional nursing generates the need for new competences.
authors.affiliation: Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
authors.forename: Pirkko
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kouri
authors.affiliation: Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
authors.forename: Marja-Liisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rissanen
authors.affiliation: Nice Computing SA.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea.
authors.forename: Hyeoun-Ae
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D057218:Blogging; D003142:Communication; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D018907:Privacy; D061108:Social Media