Topic 2
Discussion Question 1:
Find an article on a societal factor that is affecting nursing/patient education curriculum.
Summarize your article for your classmates in one or two paragraphs. Discuss why you
chose the article and what can be learned from this trend – how would you use it to
improve the quality of nursing/patient education? This article and those posted by your
classmates may become the foundation of your paper due in Topic 2. Be sure to include
the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course
materials or supplemental readings. Please note: It is a violation of copyright law to post
the entire text of the article to an online discussion board. So be sure to post only the
citation information so that the article can be located if someone is interested in reading
more. The article should come from a graduate-level journal, like an advanced practice
journal or nursing education journal – not an entry-level journal like AJN, RN, Nursing,
etc.
A societal factor that is affecting nursing education is social media. Social media is used
for mass communication and a lot of information can be harnessed from there. “…The