Nowadays there is an 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 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, Benha University. Tools for data collection: two tools were used. The 1st tool included two parts, part (1) student personnel data and part (2) the direction of students towards social media. The 2nd tool was student satisfaction about using social media in nursing study. Results: it 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 |
