How Health Care Professionals Use Social Media to Create Virtual Communities: An Integrative Review

Kaye Rolls   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , RN, BAppSc ;   Margaret Hansen   ^{4 *} , RN, MSN, CNL, EdD ;   Debra Jackson   ^{5, 6, 7 *} , RN, PhD. ;   Doug Elliott   ^{2 *} , RN, PhD.

¹ Agency for Clinical Innovation, Intensive Care Coordination and Monitoring Unit, NSW Health Department, Chatswood, Australia

² Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

³ Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁴ School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁶ Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford Institute of Nursing & Allied Health Research, NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁷ University of New England, School of Health, Armidale, Australia

*all authors contributed equally