A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses
<strong>Background:</strong> Hypoglycemia poses significant risk to inpatients. Nursing management of hypoglycemia is a challenge, despite established best practice guidelines. Social media is an effective tool for sharing information and could overcome barriers to clinical education at...
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| author | De Sousa, F Jackson, J Knight, R Cloutier, E Basa, R Fourney, A Devecseri, K |
| author_facet | De Sousa, F Jackson, J Knight, R Cloutier, E Basa, R Fourney, A Devecseri, K |
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| description | <strong>Background:</strong> Hypoglycemia poses significant risk to inpatients. Nursing management of hypoglycemia is a challenge, despite established best practice guidelines. Social media is an effective tool for sharing information and could overcome barriers to clinical education at a multicenter hospital. <strong>Aims:</strong> The purpose of this quality improvement intervention was to create and disseminate social media posts about best practices in hypoglycemia management. <strong>Design:</strong> An unmatched pre-and post-survey assessed nursing knowledge of hypoglycemia management. <strong>Methods:</strong> Social media posts were created to visually outline the steps for hypoglycemia management over 2 weeks, across a nursing social media platform. We assessed the reach of the posts via Facebook and a survey. <strong>Results:</strong> The posts reached 2962 users during the first week, and 1491 users the second week. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> A social media intervention can have a substantial reach and distribute information across a multicenter hospital. Additional study is needed to determine what factors could support an increase in nursing knowledge through a social media campaign. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:811d3105-d360-4f65-97a5-1e658fce240d2022-03-26T21:28:09ZA social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nursesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:811d3105-d360-4f65-97a5-1e658fce240dEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordRoutledge2018De Sousa, FJackson, JKnight, RCloutier, EBasa, RFourney, ADevecseri, K<strong>Background:</strong> Hypoglycemia poses significant risk to inpatients. Nursing management of hypoglycemia is a challenge, despite established best practice guidelines. Social media is an effective tool for sharing information and could overcome barriers to clinical education at a multicenter hospital. <strong>Aims:</strong> The purpose of this quality improvement intervention was to create and disseminate social media posts about best practices in hypoglycemia management. <strong>Design:</strong> An unmatched pre-and post-survey assessed nursing knowledge of hypoglycemia management. <strong>Methods:</strong> Social media posts were created to visually outline the steps for hypoglycemia management over 2 weeks, across a nursing social media platform. We assessed the reach of the posts via Facebook and a survey. <strong>Results:</strong> The posts reached 2962 users during the first week, and 1491 users the second week. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> A social media intervention can have a substantial reach and distribute information across a multicenter hospital. Additional study is needed to determine what factors could support an increase in nursing knowledge through a social media campaign. |
| spellingShingle | De Sousa, F Jackson, J Knight, R Cloutier, E Basa, R Fourney, A Devecseri, K A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title | A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title_full | A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title_fullStr | A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title_full_unstemmed | A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title_short | A social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital: a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
| title_sort | social media intervention to improve hypoglycemia management at a multicenter hospital a quality improvement pilot for clinical nurses |
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