Advantages And Disadvantages Of Tellenursing In Nursing

Your patient is having difficulty breathing and increased heart rate. You are unable to physically touch the patient, but you are able to see them and communicate with them. What advice would you give to your patient? Telenursing is up and coming and a new trend of nursing that monitors the patients in their home. The nurse assists the patient by” gathering information, assessing the client’s needs, providing health information and health consultations” (Kamei, T. (n.d.). As a nurse is this a setting you would like to work in? This article will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of telenursing and help this writer make a decision if telenursing if right for her.

What is telenursing?

Telenuring is a new trend of nursing and is rapidly

Telenursing also has several advantages that can help improve a patient’s health.

Teaching and educating the patient about their disease process and how they can assist with controlling or eliminating their symptoms is a great advantage with telenursing. Empowering your patient to get involved in their health care can be very rewarding to a nurse and improve your patient health care.

Building a relationship with your patients is also an advantage with telenursing. Although you may not be able to see them, a bond can be made over the phone. Nurses earn their patients trust and respect by being compassionate and competent. These relationships help the telenurse to gather more detailed information on the patient which can help the nurse make the right decision when providing advice on treating the patients’ health care issues. Through telenursing nurses develop more effective communication skills which promote nurse-patient relationships. Being able to effectively communicate with you patients and gathering the information the nurse needs can assist in improving patient outcomes. The nurse must be a good listener, provide compassion, and repeat back on what the patient has

Some telenurses work out of a clinic and some at home. There are chances in these settings for others to hear what is going on with the patient. Policies must be in place to control patient information and how it is disclosed. Their computers systems must also have security settings in place to reduce the risk of someone accessing the patient information. “Privacy issues related to the video or audio recording, maintenance of recordings, and storage and transmission of images and other patient record data must be fully addressed. The transmission of information via communication lines such as telephone lines, satellite, or other channels may generate concern related to possible privacy violations. An additional concern in some telehealth situations is the presence of technical staff assisting with the transmission procedure at the clinical site (or even at both ends), which could be perceived as a loss of privacy by patients”. (Demiris & Doorenbos & Towle,