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Exploring nurses' online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID-19.

dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorErikainen, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorPeltonen, Laura-Maria
dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Wasim
dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Siobhan
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T16:38:59Z
dc.date.available2022-10-19T16:38:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-22
dc.identifier.pmid34687078
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/phn.12994
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/634435
dc.descriptionObjectives: 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights© 2021 The Authors. Public Health Nursing published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectCOMMUNICABLE DISEASESen_US
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUSen_US
dc.subjectinfectious diseaseen_US
dc.subjectNURSINGen_US
dc.subjectpandemicsen_US
dc.subjectSOCIAL MEDIAen_US
dc.titleExploring nurses' online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID-19.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1525-1446
dc.identifier.journalPublic health nursing (Boston, Mass.)en_US
dc.source.journaltitlePublic health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
dc.source.volume39
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage586
dc.source.endpage600
refterms.dateFOA2022-10-19T16:39:00Z
dc.source.countryUnited States


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