When I googled my name, it showed that I have profiles in LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. I was surprised to see two of my profile pictures show up from LinkedIn and Twitter as these are two social media platforms I use for my professional career and am least active on. Instagram and Facebook are two social media platforms I use to stay in touch with my family and friends. Twitter account I created to follow my kid's hockey teams and to stay connected with hockey parents and schools. I am not regularly active on this. My LinkedIn profile is public, and I am okay with this as it shares my career and education achievements from a professional perspective.
There are not a lot of details about my family, unprofessional pictures, or posts. It is what I am comfortable sharing with the world. Facebook and Instagram accounts are private as the connections are with my family and close friend circle. These are important people in my life who I have chosen to stay connected with. I keep my posts all personal and tasteful and do not post anything about work on here. The answer to question #2, would be yes, I post differently in public vs private accounts. I do not use Facebook as much as Instagram.
LinkedIn is a platform I use to stay in touch with all the people I have met through Respiratory Therapy School, Vancouver General Hospital and Alberta Health Services. I congratulate them on their successes and achievements. I do not share, retweet, or report on this platform. On Instagram, I connect with my family and friends and share any family or status updates and many times I share inspirational posts from those I follow. I do like to follow inspirational and motivating people such as Jay Shetty, Priyanka Chopra and yes – Justin Bieber (love his music). Others I follow for my own entertainment to laugh, learn new recipes, and get inspired for new projects.
I have continued to keep my practice permit with the College and Association of Respiratory Therapists in Alberta. This allows me to continue my status as a regulated health professional in good standing. By maintaining this practice permit, I am obligated to meet and be accountable for maintaining the CARTA professional practice standards, code of ethic and continuing competency education. In addition, I am also accountable to follow the Health Professional Act set by the government of Alberta in my day-to-day role at Alberta Health Services (AHS).
Being an AHS employee, I am also accountable is to live the defined organization values of caring, accountability, respect, excellence, and safety. Furthermore, the organization's code of ethics is my accountability to follow and to ensure my staff are also holding themselves accountable to it.
Every day I interact with other professions. This interaction could be with a direct report, my manager, my colleagues, physicians, senior leadership, unions, other program managers and vendors. The nature of these conversations can vary. For example, with my direct report it may be a conversation about expectations or a discussion on their ideas. With my manager it may be a conversation about strategy and discussing reports or solutions. For those I work closely with such as physicians or other program managers, the conversation would be about solution finding, listening, understanding, and negotiating. The key is that each interaction needs to be evaluated on how it should occur. If it is a simple report or messaging, email or phone conversation is suitable. If the conversation requires understanding, strategy planning and active listening to negotiate then a face-to-face or zoom conversation is quite important. By evaluating how the interaction should occur, it has allowed me to know my stakeholders, build credibility and trust.
Now that have awareness of how interlinked my professional and personal accountabilities are and how social media platforms represent me as Amarjit and also me as an AHS employee, I will be working towards completing my accounts for LinkedIn and Twitter to use these platforms to curate latest information and share information.
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