Exploring Nursing Student Use of Instagram: Selfies and Soliloquies and #becominganurse with Evolving Digital Footprints

Background: The availability and adoption of social media technologies suggests that nurses, nursing students, and patients simultaneously use the same digital platforms for all manners of everyday communication. An issue within nursing education pertains to how nursing students use this form of technology during their undergraduate education and its subsequent outward professional impact on the profession. Purpose: This study explores the ways in which nursing students use social media technology within/for nursing education. Methodology: This study employs Kozinet’s (2015) netnography, alongside elements of grounded theory and visual methodology. Sample and setting: The study was conducted by examining pictures and text posted to Instagram, an image-based social media platform. Through purposive and theoretical sampling strategies, Instagram entries posted by 40 nursing students was analysed. Results: Core findings that emerged from the data analysis included two top-level themes: (a) Selfies and Soliloquies; and, (b) #becominganurse with an Evolving Digital Footprint. It was found that through the use of selfies and soliloquies, nursing students described and demonstrated their former and evolving nursing personas. Further, students commonly displayed moments of assimilation into the nursing profession as they evolved as a nursing student during their time in nursing school. Conclusions: There is a considerable lack of understanding and awareness regarding the adoption and use of social media technology among nursing students. This study provides important findings regarding how nursing students use platforms like Instagram during their education

Twelve-month observational study of children with cancer in 41 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

Childhood cancer is a leading cause of death. It is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted childhood cancer mortality. In this study, we aimed to establish all-cause mortality rates for childhood cancers during the COVID-19 pandemic and determine the factors associated with mortality

Assessing written work by determining competence to achieve the module-specific learning outcomes.

This chapter describes lasers and other sources of coherent light that operate in a wide wavelength range. First, the general principles for the generation of coherent continuous-wave and pulsed radiation are treated including the interaction of radiation with matter, the properties of optical resonators and their modes as well as such processes as Q-switching and mode-locking. The general introduction is followed by sections on numerous types of lasers, the emphasis being on todayʼs most important sources of coherent light, in particular on solid-state lasers and several types of gas lasers. An important part of the chapter is devoted to the generation of coherent radiation by nonlinear processes with optical parametric oscillators, difference- and sum-frequency generation, and high-order harmonics. Radiation in the extended ultraviolet (EUV) and x-ray ranges can be generated by free electron lasers (FEL) and advanced x-ray sources. Ultrahigh light intensities up to 1021 W/cm2 open the door to studies of relativistic laser–matter interaction and laser particle acceleration. The chapter closes with a section on laser stabilization