The advances in social media offer many opportunities for developing understanding of\ndifferent countries and cultures without any implications of travel. Nursing has a global presence\nand yet it appears as though students have little knowledge of the health and social care needs and\nprovision outside their local environment. Our collaboration across three countries, New Zealand,\nUnited Kingdom, and the United States of America, brought the two themes together with the aim\nof senior student nurses having a communication channel to explore public health issues in each\ncountry. Using a closed Facebookââ??¢ page, third year undergraduate adult nursing students were\ninvited to take part in a three month pilot study to test the feasibility of virtual collaboration through\nexchanging public health issues. Here we report upon the collaboration, operation of the social media,\nand main findings of the study. Three core areas will be reported upon, these being the studentââ?¬â?¢s\nviews of using social media for learning about international perspectives of health, seeing nursing\nas a global profession and recommendations for future development of this positively reviewed\nlearning technique. To conclude consideration will be given to further development of this work by\nthe collaborative team expanding the countries involved.
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