Background: nowadays increasing use of Social media within the nursing study and practice the students
should realize its use is attractive in the educational setting. The aim of the study: This study was aimed to assess direction
and satisfaction of medical, surgical nursing students in the first year towards using social media for communication &
study Subjects and methods: descriptive design utilized to conduct this study. Sitting: The study was held in the medical,
surgical department faculty of nursing (1st year) in which student start studying nursing to verify no any factor affecting
them. Tools for data collection: The constructed study tools tested, and piloted by the investigator to collect data through
two electronic tools. The first tool:- include two parts, part (1) student personnel data and part (2) the direction of students
towards social media. The second tool, student satisfaction about using social media in nursing studying. Results: the result
showed that most of the students prefer using of social media in their learning and they have positive direction toward using
it, positively agreement of most of the students in using the social media in interactivity with peers and the agreement for
most of them which refer to satisfaction by using it in academic learning and most of students were satisfied toward using
of social media in their learning. Conclusion: Social media is a rising scope within nursing practice, and students can find
its use engaging in the educational setting. The current study concluded that most of the students were agree and they
satisfied to use of social media in their learning, interactivity with peers, teachers, and they agree of easy use and usefulness
of it. In the same time, they prefer the presence of teachers.
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