{"id":6558,"date":"2019-11-14T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"how-whatsapp-groups-support-nigerias-nurse-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/14\/how-whatsapp-groups-support-nigerias-nurse-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"How Whatsapp Groups Support Nigeria\u2019s Nurse Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmcn.gov.ng\/docs\/ApprovedSchools.pdf\">Around 12,000<\/a>&nbsp;students\nare enrolled in Nigeria\u2019s nursing schools each year. As it is in many health\nprofessions, these students often find it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0029655411002909\">challenging<\/a>&nbsp;after\ngraduation when they search for and start their first job. They feel unprepared\nand have difficulties to put their knowledge from school into practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, many feel unwelcome in their teams, which results in a sense of professional isolation and high\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0020748913002733?via%3Dihub\">drop-out rates<\/a>. Yet, new graduates stand to gain a lot if they engage in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nursejournal.org\/articles\/networking\/\">networking groups<\/a>. These are known to be effective in creating a support system for young graduates, finding jobs, sharing knowledge and resources, and making connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/\">WhatsApp<\/a>, a mobile instant messaging\nplatform, is a potential platform for professional networking which has seen\nrecent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09718524.2018.1509490\">remarkable\nexpansion<\/a>&nbsp;in Nigeria and other African countries. The reasons for this\ndevelopment are the increased availability of smartphones and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2019\/03\/07\/nigeria-has-one-of-the-cheapest-mobile-data-prices-in-africa\/\">relatively\nlow<\/a>&nbsp;costs of data in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform can\nalso be used easily without much technological knowledge and the connective\nfeatures of the app enable up to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/whatsapp-group-chats-bigger-maximum-size-256-people-users-a6856491.html\">256\nusers to exchange text<\/a>, emoticons, pictures, video, and audio messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These developments\nhave created unprecedented opportunities for health professionals to share\nclinical information and professional experiences. It also helps them stay\nconnected with each other after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The availability of this technology and lack of existing structures for professional networking among young nursing graduates have presented an opportunity to show how WhatsApp can be used to address this need among recent graduates of schools of nursing in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-whatsapp-groups-support-nigerias-nurse-graduates-124514\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 12,000&nbsp;students are enrolled in Nigeria\u2019s nursing schools each year. As it is in many health professions, these students often find it&nbsp;challenging&nbsp;after graduation when they search for and start their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}