Awareness of Social Media and Health Care

The role of health care providers in maintaining patient privacy and confidentially was first discussed in the Hippocratic Oath over 2,500 years ago. Many of the basic tenants of the Hippocratic Oath, including the respect of patient privacy and confidentiallywas adopted by Lystra Gretter in 1893, author of the Nightingale Pledge.

Today the American Nurses Association's statement on the ethical and legal obligation to protect the privacy and confidentially of their patients remains in align with the Hippocratic Oath and the Nightingale Pledge. Communication is a major part of a human being’s social life. Human being’s communicating for multiple reasons. Human beings communicate in an attempt to influence another’s thoughts or beliefs, to exchange information, to seek information and to express feelings and emotions.

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