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Beverley Brathwaite Senior lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Asanka Dayananda Education developer, Middlesex University

Harnessing social media can enhance essential nursing qualities, say Beverley Brathwaite and Asanka Dayananda

Each student attending Asanka Dayananda’s lectures has a smartphone and most bring tablets, notebooks and laptops. A rapid online survey of 95 second-year BSc nursing students at London’s Middlesex University found that 86 per cent use Facebook, 98 per cent use text and all use emails.

Nursing Standard. 28, 6, 66-66. doi: 10.7748/ns2013.10.28.6.66.s54

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09 October 2013 / Vol 28 issue 6

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