The purpose of this review was to discuss how literature describes telenursing in providing
rehabilitative care to the elderly hip fracture patients at home. It also described the various
repercussions the hip fracture condition is inflicting on the patient and the hospitals and sub‐ sequently the healthcare system. The research question for this thesis was: How is telenursing
applied in the rehabilitative care of elderly hip fracture patients at home?
Systematic literature review was used as the study method; literature search was conducted
on existing current scientific articles, books, journals and the internet. The data was deter‐
mined from the search by their relevance to the purpose of articles’ study and articles’ re‐
search questions and analyzed through inductive qualitative analysis.
The findings indicated that telenursing was an emerging and expanding potential means of
delivering rehabilitative care to patients at home or in other care facilities. It had been
proved to be successful in caring for other chronic conditions and suggested that it could also
be applied to provide rehabilitative care for elderly hip fracture patients. The findings also
suggested that telenursing improved the health outcomes for the patients. Telenursing ser‐
vices also benefited the patient with a multidisciplinary team, resulted in patient satisfaction
and demonstrated to be cost efficient for both the patients and organisations providing
healthcare. However the findings revealed that a more specific design was required for the
intervention of using telenursing to care for hip fracture patients, since literature had mainly
described care in other conditions: from this finding, it was concluded that more research
could be undertaken by carrying out more clinical experiments to come up with solid scientif‐
ic evidence for the design.