Is Social Media an Ethical Issue in healthcare?

[Name of the institute]Is Social Media an Ethical Issue in healthcare?

The ethical implications work in relevance to nursing practices that can include social media as an awareness program. Every business and organization is taking advantage of the new reforms of social media. Social media has changed the paradigms of the approaches in the market. According to McKee (2013), the leadership at healthcare sectors have to keep the advantages on their top most priority. The prime aim is to reach to the customers that are patients here. However, there are many possible implications that may cause ethical issues regarding the inclusion of social media in the provision of healthcare services. This paper attempts to explore the ethical association of social media especially in healthcare settings.

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Social media like Face Book and Twitter have enabled the users make their postings that may fall under public or private category. This may cause several frictions among the users as well as the hospitals, companies associated with profession. There are no restrictions on the matter what users are posting and sometimes users paste extremely insolent material against other stakeholders or the healthcare sector itself. The 'no limitation' attribute has led to many issues in the recent past. The grieving parties also start the fight back that starts more like a war over internet. According to Lambert et al. (2012), there has to be some boundaries on the nature of postings as there are all sorts of users that are on social media sites. There are utmost chances prevailing that indicate towards harming the emotions of people.

Another implication is prevailing that explore about the authenticity of research material and information that is posted on the sites. There is quick spread of information like a ...