Social Media as a CPD tool?

Rachel Booth

Clinical Lead OT TEWV NHS trust

Chair of Northern and Yorkshire BAOT Region

rachel.booth2@nhs.net

@OT_rach

Aims

# What is Social media?

# Explore CPD

# Explain your responsibilities as a professional –Warning

# Begin to understand Twitter and Social Media

# How to transfer your Tweeting and online presence in to CPD activities

# Practical session

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What forms of social media do you use?

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What is Social media?

• The social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

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What is Continuing Professional

Development (CPD) ?

A range of learning activities through which professionals maintain and develop throughout their career to ensure that they continue to be able to practice safely, effectively, and legally, within their changing scope of practice.

A joint statement on continuing professional development for health and social care practitioners http://www.cot.co.uk/sites/default/files/general/public/Joint-statement-on-CPD.pdf

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HCPC standards for CPD

Registrant must:

1. Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities;

2. Demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice

3. Seek to ensure that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practice and service delivery

4. Seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service user

5. Upon request, present a written profile (which must be their own work and supported by evidence) explaining how they have met the standards for CPD.

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Social media Policies

• Nursing & Midwifery Council

• General Medical Council

• Health and Care Professions Council

• Your organisation

• British Dietetic Association

• The British Psychological Society

• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

• Royal College of General Practitioners

• British Medical Association

• Royal College of Nursing

• Royal College of Midwives

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society

• British Association of Occupational Therapists & College of Occupational Therapists

• British Association of Art Therapist

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COT and Social

Media

http://www.cot.co.uk/forum

http://baotcot.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/baotcot

https://twitter.com/baotcot

https://www.flickr.com/photos/baotcot

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2460522&trk=anet_ug_hm

http://www.youtube.com/user/baotcot

http://www.slideshare.net/baotcot

BAOT/COT Social Media User Guidance

This guidance aims to protect individuals and the strategic position and reputation of the Association and College http://www.cot.co.uk/sites/default/files/corporate_documents/public/social-media-guidance.doc

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Is using social media professional? What the HCPC say

# Recognise social networking sites are

a useful way of communicating and

sharing information

# Information placed on social

networking sites is in the public

domain and can therefore be viewed

by other people.

# The HCPC will only be concerned if

your use raises concerns about your

fitness to practise.

# For example, - putting confidential

information

Make sure that when you use social Networking Sites, your usage is consistent with the HCPC standards.

# You must act in the best interests of service users.

# You must respect the confidentiality of service users.

# You must keep high standards of personal conduct.

# You must behave with honesty and integrity and make sure that your behavior does not damage the public’s confidence in you or your profession.

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Think before you post

Appropriate to share that information?

Confidential? - about your service,

patient, client or colleague? –Don’t

post

This could include information about

their personal life, health or

circumstances.

General Rule - don’t put anything on

social media you would not like your

boss or grandmother to see.

You may use social networking sites to share your views and opinions.

However, the HCPC and your work place might need to take action if the comments posted were offensive, for example if they were racist or sexually explicit, or call you professionalism in to dount

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Some examples

@DavidCameron is a F*****g idiot the #BedroomTax is going to create a bigger gap between #MH SU’s and the general public

The use of language would be seen as unprofessional

I disagree with @davidCameron the #BedroomTax will create a bigger gap between #MH SU’s and the general Public.

Had a mental week at work, two suicides

attempts, and an on going lack of

understanding of role of #OT – I need I big

drink

Feeling crap, work is s**t at the moment,

wish I worked somewhere else, might go

on the sick.

OMG worse day ever!!! so glad work is

over.

Think who is looking at this ?

Stay positive on line ?

Lots of challenges this week, time to

reflect.

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How does twitter work - the basics?

Great guides on using twitter are

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter

http://claireot.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/how-to-twitter/

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Following and

Followers

Settings

Messages – Direct

message. Theses are

private

Timeline – tweets

by people you are

following

Me – your Tweets

and page Notifications - tweets

you are mentioned in

Search twitter

Write a tweet

Tweet

A single update of 140

characters or less Change accounts if you

have more than one

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Recent publications and presentations about

Twitter use

Social Media in Mental Health Practice -Online network tools for recovery and living well -A practical guide for health and social care practitioners working in mental health services

Understanding Twitter’ by Fiona Maclean, Derek Jones, Gail Carin-Levy and Heather Hunter in the June 2013 issue of BJOT

2013 The Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2013: Transformational leadership in occupational therapy —delivering change through conversations Hunter EP. British Journal of Occupational Therapy 76(8) 346-354”

Social media and professionalism for new graduates (Brown, Andrew) OT news May 2012

Social media as a professional tool by Miriam Crowe - OT News July 2013

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Ok so where does this all fit with

your CPD?

Face book

Pintrest

Linkin

You Tube

Professional and service user blog

Twitter

#OTalk – a talk that happens on line every Tuesday from 8-9 with once a month journal clubs

http://otalkocchats.wordpress.com

#OTuesday – people tweet what they are up to every Tuesday to promote OT

#OTgeek some people add this to a tweet if they feeing geeky

Tweet at learning events, COT conference had its own #

#COT2013 people live tweeted from the event so that others who were not there could join in the learning.

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So how can I evidence what I have learnt for my CPD?

# Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate

record of their CPD activities

# Using TRAMm Model

# Write a reflection on what you have learnt from

tweets you have read, #Otalks you have joined in.

# You could create your own blog for this purpose.

# Create a storify of a tweeting sessions you have

joined in

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The TRAMm Model for Continuing Professional Development

Free CPD materials – For HCPC Standards

# A dynamic, interactive model which encourages interaction and provides a clear framework for maintaining and recording CPD.

# Has Developed tools, # The TRAMm Tracker and the

TRAMm Trail to help you keep track of your CPD

http://www.trammcpd.com @TRAMmCPD

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What is Storify

# Storify helps making sense of what people post on social media. Our users create the most important voices and turn them into stories.

# They are building a new information network that will give you the social perspective on any event.

# Basically if you create an account you can the drag information from all your social networking sites and websites to make a story of an event and how you where included for your CPD – this website was recommended to be used within a twitter chat with the HCPC

http://storify.com/about

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Blogging # Blogs range from the personal to the political,

# Focus on a particular topic, or can be more like personal journals.

# Remember to act professional on these sites.

# Be aware not all blogs will be evidence based, so be careful.

My blog

http://greenoaty.wordpress.com

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Lets Have a go at tweeting

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References

# The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (NHS KSF) 2004# http://www.slideshare.net/suebeckingham/building-your-professional-online-

presence# http://www.hcpc-uk.org/aboutregistration/standards/cpd/index.asp# http://www.cot.co.uk/taxonomy/term/188/all# http://www.hpc-uk.org/mediaandevents/news/index.asp?id=419# http://www.cot.co.uk/strategic-plans/social-media-strategy-guidance# http://www.nhsemployers.org/Aboutus/Publications/Pages/HR-social-media-

NHS.aspx# http://mobilesocialwork.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/virtual-boundaries-ethical-

considerations-for-use-of-social-media-in-social-work/# http://healthissocial.com/healthcare-social-media/hospital-social-media-policy/# http://storify.com/about

# http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

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