Social media in nursing should be used carefully as there are risks associated with its use. The following risk may occur in a health profession which will lead to lawful issues. Firstly‚ information available online for nurses and community members is unreliable sometimes as anyone can post it (Gorea‚ R.K.‚ Gorea‚ A.‚ & Gorea‚ A.‚ 2016). Peate‚ I (2013) suggest that information found on social media can be wrong‚ invaluable or even risky to use and nurses find it to be a challenge to offer patients
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explain a definition of the term “social media” and distinguish and analyze two possible opportunities and two possible risks which are associated with the use of social media for a nurse. Moreover‚ the essay will provide legal‚ ethical and professional standards of practice‚ for which are prominent recommendations of how a nurse can maintain their professionalism when engaging online. The international Nurse Regulators Collaborative‚ 2014 describes social media as an electronic platform to communicate
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to be beautiful come from? Body image is a pressing issue that plagues women and men alike. The problem can start at a very young age and grow into a deadly obsession that can cause eating disorders that can in turn become fatal. A large amount of body image standards come from the media. The media constitutes a large outlet that has the ability to make people believe it is a mirror of society and not that viewers are killing themselves to mirror the media. Magazine articles show emaciated
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Body Image & Media The media promotes an unhealthy body image that is damaging to both society as a whole and individuals. As a whole to individuals ‚promoting an unhealthy body image‚and damaging to society makes people feel less of themselves. According to these critiques the combination of two trends‚the technology enabled media saturation of the american public and the promotion by this media of highly unattainable body types (Gerald Wagner ). “While mass media has been subject to the strongest
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Introduction: The proposed study will see if there is an effect on women’s body image after being exposed to a thin idealistic body image in the media. Female undergraduates with varying levels of body image self-discrepancy will be exposed to a set of advertisements that portray thin women (idealistic body image) to determine whether thin-ideal exposure contributes to increased body dissatisfaction and lowered self-esteem This research may provide evidence for a possible correlation between body
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today’s society. More of the popular effects of body image issues includes unhealthy obsessions‚ bullying through social media‚ and the distinct ways the American culture thinks of ideal men and women. The various cultures of the world each have different beliefs in what the body should look like. Many people blame the culture they live in for the obsession of body images. Arielle Cutler‚ a student of Hamilton University‚ once stated‚ “Pathologies
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Contrary to what you see in the media‚ we are not all meant to look the same. Media has an undeniable effect on all people; women are especially vulnerable to the subversive messages often presented. Only 5 percent of women have the “ideal” body that is shown in the majority of advertisements. Girls don’t just simply decide to hate their bodies‚ we teach them to. The ideal body is a socially constructed concept which can be defined in many ways‚ all by different people. Regardless of which definition
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A Theory of Media Politics: How Media Constructs the Image of Politicians Media is inseparable part of people’s life. Hence‚ media is the right tools which used to forge the human mind either consciously or not. In this era‚ modern political success depends upon the control of mass media. An image making in the mass media is an important element in world politics since the image of politicians in the media is seen as a good indicator of their influence. Politicians have learned that one way to successfully
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Social media is any website that allows social interaction. Social media is growing rapidly throughout the world. More adults and teenagers are joining sites such as Facebook‚ MySpace‚ and Twitter to interact with friends‚ family‚ and strangers. The introduction of social media has changed the world in many ways. It affects each individual in different ways. Today it can be used as a very helpful tool in changing a person’s life‚ but at the same time cause such conflicts which can negatively impact
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changing the image of that specific profession. Of these many professions‚ nursing is a major profession that has been given a falsified image within the media. Over many years people have overlooked at how important nursing really is within the health care delivery system. Out of the numerous professions within the health care delivery system‚ the profession with the most patient contact are nurses. Media has been making outrageous claims against nurses for years. Of these false images‚ many can be
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