Importance Of Telenursing Presentation Transcript
1.INTRODUCTION
Telenursing is the integration of
nursing,
its information
and information management
with information processing
and communication technology,
to support the health of people worldwide
2. DEFINITION
Telenursing is the use of telecommunication and information technology in nursing to enhance patient care.
Telenursing is a specialty that integrates informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science and information science to manage and communicate data,information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.
3.PURPOSES OF TELENURSING
Increase the accuracy and completeness of nursing documentation
Improve the Nurses’ workflow
Eliminate redundant documentation
Automate the collection and reuse of nursing data the collection and reuse of nursing data
Facilitate analysis of clinical data
Quality measures and regulatory requirements
TN supports patients, nurses and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings.
This support is accomplished through the use of information technology and information structures which organize data information and knowledge for processing by computers.
4. APPLICATION OF TELENURSING
Home Care
Case Management
Telephone triage
Home Care
One of the most distinctive telenursing applications is home care.
For example , patients who are immobilized, or live in remote or difficult to reach places, citizens who have chronic ailments, may stay at home and be "visited" and assisted regularly by a nurse via videoconferencing, internet or videophone.
In normal home health care, one nurse is able to visit up to 5-7 patients per day. Using telenursing, one nurse can “visit” 12-16 patients in the same amount of time.
Case Management
A common application of Telenursing is also used by call centres operated by manage care organizations.
which are staffed by registered nurses who act as case managers .
Information and counselling as a means of regulating patient access and flow and decrease the use of emergency rooms.
Telephone triage
Telephone triage refers to symptom or clinically-based calls. Nurse perform symptom assessment by asking detailed questions about the patient's illness or injury. The Nurse task is to estimate and/or rule out urgent symptoms.
5.ADVANTAGES
Provide remote care
Decrease patient visit
Transcending miles and borders
Data Sharing
Rapid Response time
Improve access, costs and outcomes
Enhances patients voice in decisions
6.DISADVANTAGES
Dehumanizing effects
Cost
Inability for patient to use equipment
Knowledge base of the nurse
Equipment malfunction
7.REQUIREMENTS OF TELENURSING
Telephone
Telehealth hardware
PC or laptop computer
Power supply
Web access
8. ISSUES OF TELENURSING
Ethical Concerns
Maintaining autonomy (identity, privacy)
Maintaining patient’s integrity
Prevent harm to a patient
2. Legal Issues
Maintaining patient privacy
Verifying consent
Compliance with institutional regulations
Maintaining compliance with scope of practice
9. SUMMARY
As new technology emerge, telenursing practices will continue to evolve. The Registered Nurses will have to make certain that they possess the necessary technical clinical knowledge to provide safe, competent, compassionate, and ethical care.We, as nurses, must also keep ourselves abreast to the constant changes in technology that may change the way we take care of our patients.