The Expansion Of The Nursing Profession - 1678 Words

Telenursing Introduction: The desire to care for others is the reason why many people enter to the nursing profession. Thus, due to the expansion of the nursing profession, healthcare is embracing any technology to facilitate better outcomes for patients, streamline operations, and lower costs. Experts in caring have found that technology will be using several applications in a variety of environments that will directly involve registered nurses in the delivery of professional care (Snooks et al., 2007). In the modernization and the reconfiguration of professional roles between medicine and nursing practice; telenursing is one of these methods that nurses will be using to improve the quality of life for clients (Snooks et al., 2007).†¦show more content†¦Historically, nursing care is associated with physical presence and close proximity in the relationship between the nurse and the patient. However, telenursing limits the way nurses used to provide ethical, safe, effective and holisti c care by using technology (telehealth) at distance. Telenurses face challenges in the exploration of the non-touch and the non-visual environment created by the new mode of delivery of care (Jones, Hendericks, Cope, 2012). Researchers have found that remote monitoring is a safe stool to improve healthcare quality and it also reduces costs. Services delivered throughout telenursing have been shown to be an effective and efficient form of nursing care that continues to grow internationally (Jones, Hendricks, Cope, 2012). Clinical nursing skills and the use of sophisticated information technologies with telenursing contribute to change contemporary nursing (Jones, Hendricks, Cope, 2012). It is evident that telenursing presents a new opportunity for the future nursing practice in a highly technological environment. Advantages: Research by Jones, Hendricks, Cope, (2012) identify that the most common use of telenursing is the management of care organizations that use registered nurs es to triage from centralized locations via communication systems as a means of reducing the use of emergency rooms. According to Borhani, Lashkari, Sabzevari, Abbaszadeh, (2013) health care and technology are co-existed and telenursing offers multiple