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How telenursing is contributing to a change in the role of the nurse.
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Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services to patients. The most progressive area of telenursing is within home telehealth care, also referred to as "teletriage". Using telehealth, nurses can continue to educate discharged patients at home as questions about their care and condition arise. In addition to being able to distribute information remotely to a discharged patient, using tele-health checks offers better patient recovery results than leaving recovery up to the patient at home without remote monitoring.
The concept of telenursing is exciting as patient's vitals through thermometers, sphygmomanometers and stethoscopes can all be connected and remotely monitor the data needed to deliver quality patient care. In the medically underserved rural areas of this country, telehealth will be making a huge difference, as these folks now have access to care that they may have had to drive hours for previously for simple wellness checks and advise on basic health care.
Through telenursing, these nurses are afforded the opportunity to work from home and/or in call centers, instead of being in a health care setting the whole day. This option also provides nurses autonomy to make diagnosis on their own, though some nurses expressed a conflict between what they thought was best for the client versus what the health care services could provide. A negative drawback I can see with telenursing is the privacy of the conversation between the call center, and where the client is speaking to the nurse. Another would be when the nurse is capturing the vitals from a patient, if that patient is attaching the monitoring device correctly to get true information for the diagnosis.
Telenursing as well as any remote care options will be the wave of the future. With the rise in wait times, health care costs, and medical professional employment issues, this will help providers give the best care for basic procedures freeing up wait times and physicians for more important procedures. Health care companies will have to continue to invest time and resources to the privacy for patients in order to make telenursing work, but overall it is a step in the right direction to provide health care to all with no borders.