Power On: Using Technology in Cancer Care Joni Watson, MBA, MSN, RN,

Discuss oncology nurses’ role advancing patient care, public health, and the profession via electronic tools and digital communications. Objective

Nurse Communication Strategies

Traditional

Modern

Generational Differences in Electronic & Digital Use

The Greatest Generation Born

The Silent Generation Born

Baby Boomers Born

Gen X Born

Gen Y Born

Generation Z Born after 2001

Changing Internet Landscape

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Web 3.0/4.0

New Nursing Tools

Patient Portals

Telehealth & Telemonitoring

Devices

Social Media

The biggest risk in healthcare social media is not participating in the conversation.

12-word SoMe Policy

Barriers

Case Studies

Somewhere, somehow, at some time in the past, courageous nurses determined these skills, learned them, fought for the right to u se them and taught them to other nurses. A ll nurses have an obligation to remember th at part of nursing’s past and to keep their o wn skills in pace with new opportunities fo r nursing into the next century. ~Hildegar d Peplau, 1987

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