Essays on Telenursing

Nursing has been my passion from childhood. Whenever I was asked what I would want to be when I grow up, my answer was that “I would want to be a nurse!” This passion has grown in me as I went through my junior level education to senior levels. All I wanted was to one day become a good nurse. Many a times when I used to visit hospitals and see how patients suffer, I developed a feeling that anybody with a good heart should always be a nurse. This dream temporarily changed after I joined college. I met ...

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Telenursing involves the use of information technology and telecommunication to provide medical services to patients. It is commonly used in cases where there is a great distance between the medical facility and the patients. This intervention is suitable among patients with chronic conditions who need regular assessment by a nurse but finds it difficult because of the distance between the doctor and the patient (Taylor et al, 2015). Telenursing involves the transfer and exchange of medical data such as glucose level, the urine composition and the blood pressure between the patient and the medical assistant to assess and diagnose ...

As the nursing profession continues to evolve, it is important that nurses also evolve along with the occupation. Telehealth can serve the following purposes: providing home telenursing; electronic referrals to specialists and hospitals; teleconsulting between specialists, general practitioners, or nurse practitioners; minor injury consulting; and consulting through call centers (Thede & Sewell, 2012 P. 369).

Today, I experience telenursing in my current career as a hospice nurse. My position as a hospice nurse entails triaging phone calls on a nightly basis. In this case, a patient or family member notifies a triage nurse of a health issue via telephone and the nurse then assesses the ...

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The government aims at ensuring the health care sector changes and grows by ensuring every person accesses quality and affordable care. According to Lombardo & Buckeridge (2007), one of the major barriers to the effective delivery of care is distance. Most people never access quality health care because they leave far away from hospitals. The use of technology in the health care sector has crossed the next level because almost every activity follows technology. Introduction of Tele-health helped solve the problem of distance and cost of health care. Tele-health involves using information and communication technology in delivering health care services ...

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Technology and the computers are becoming more dispensable than ever in our daily lives. Because of this fact, the health care provision through technology is not an exception. The population is growing so rapidly causing the people to spread all over up to the remote areas. The technology has to be hence changed progressively in line with the population changed. Telehealth referred to the vast range of services that are rendered and managed through telecommunication techniques. Telehealth is continuously enhancing patient care in the most effective and efficient way possible by involving the use of the technology. Telehealth uses ...