Sammanfattning
Background: Parents share their experiences of having their hospitalized child exposed in social media. Little knowledge exists about this, and as far as we know this is the first study to explore Norwegian pediatric nurses experience of parents’ exposure of ill children in social media. Purpose: Explore and describe pediatric nurses’ experiences and views of parents exposing their sick children in social media through pictures and stories. And to gain insight into whether and in what way, the exposure affects the patient/parent- and the pediatric nurse relationship. Method: Two focus group interviews were conducted with totally 11 pediatric nurses from two hospitals. The analysis was based on Giorgis principles of categorization and meaningful entities. Results: The study revealed 5 main findings: Pediatric nurses experience; parents expose their children in order to get support from the outside world. Pediatric nurses experience and opinion; parents' exposure could be detrimental for the child. Pediatric nurses’ opinion of parents´ exposure of premature and newborn children in social media, differed. Pediatric nurses could be reluctant to take responsibility for patients whose parents have a blog. Pediatric nurses follow parents’ blogs for various reasons. Conclusion: This study suggests that the relationship between patient/parent and pediatric nurses is affected when parents expose their ill child in social media.