TELENURSING: LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology in the provision of nursing services whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any numbers of nurses. As a field, it is part of telehealth and telemedicine and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, and telemonitoring. Telenursing involves the use of electromagnetic channels to transmit voice and video commutations

Hardware for Telenursing is Video Conferencing              

Types of Softwares used in Telenursing

1.      Documentation tools

2.      LMV systems

3.      Decision aid software programs

Tele Nursing is a subset of telehealth in which technology is used to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice. It is a specific to a nursing as a profession Telenursing is not a new mode of health care delivery rather it is an evolving mode of health care delivery that began from the advent of telephone use in 1876.

Types of Telenursing:

1.      Remote Monitoring

2.      Interactive Telenursing Services

3.      Store and forward Telenursing

4.      Specialist and primary care consultation

5.      Imaging Services

Methods of delivering Telenursing

1.      Point-point connections using private network

2.      Web-based e-Health Patient service sites

3.      Networked Program

4.      Connections to monitoring center from Home

5.      Primary/specialty care to the home connection

Applications of Telenursing

1.      Home  care

2.      Patient Consultations

3.      Telephone Triage

4.      Remote monitoring

5.      Chronic disease management

6.      Case management

Benefits of Using Telenursing

Nurse’s benefits

1.      Saving time

2.      More efficient seeing distant patients

3.      Rural providers can receive continue education

4.      Available as a specialty program

Patient benefits:

1.      Increased access to healthcare services

2.      Decreases waiting time and unnecessary visits to ED departments

3.      Reduces cost

4.      Provides immediate site information

5.      Medicare reimbursement

Disadvantages:

1.      Absence of direct hands on or face to face interaction

2.      Technical difficulties

3.      Increase liability risk

4.      Inability to provide patients with information to make an informed decision.

Travel nursing technology can emerge, Telenursing practices will continue to evolve. He scope off nursing practice will continue to expand and with this expansion registered nurses will have to make certain that they possess the necessary technical clinical knowledge to provide safe, competent, compassionate and ethical care. Travel nurses will be able to follow the guidelines of the National initiative for Telehealth Frame work as well as any guidelines Framework as well as any guideline or polices that surface. Telenursing is one of the various innovative and improved methods of providing nursing care that directly effects register nurses and expands their capacity to practice nursing in a relatively new arena as well as directly affecting clients.