Pros And Cons Of Telenursing

Introduction. Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology in providing nursing services whenever a distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. It basically ensues relaying nursing care through technology to create a meaningful environment for the patient. The government, for decades, has made an effort to support telenursing in lieu of cutting costs of health care. On September 2011, President Obama proclaimed the National Health Information Technology (HIT). This technology asserts the connection between doctors, patients and other medical staff universally. This technology offers many useful commands and prompts which include printable prescriptions, providing medical notes,

In every technology, no matter how reliable, technical difficulties are set to arise. And when technical difficulty arises, the reliability of the information relayed is doubted. Nurses require accurate and prompt charting and information. This also raises skepticism from the physician in accepting information that may or may not be reliable. The majority of responsibility usually lies in the physician rather than the nurse because nurses use more of common language than the language of diagnosis. My personal experience and that of my friends’ tell me that even with my MD degree, I still don’t use enough medical terminology to describe, document and relay medical data to another physician. This also gives doubt to the patient care being given. Is the care reliable? Is it up to standard? Is it given to the bare maximum? These questions rise because nurses and medical staff rely on this data given by the machine to prescribe accurately and to manage an issue or problem to the fullest. Many times physical therapists and respiratory therapists look at the charting done by nurses and these machines and use them to treat. Certain non-verbal cues may slip through the cracks if not enough time is given to do a complete assessment. But what could be worst if a doctor decides to treat a patient based on EMR and not running his own diagnosis? Meaningful usage restrictions have in the past raised criticisms because of a large amount of criteria involved. To achieve the idea of meaningful usage, certain criteria has to be met such as; coordination has to show improvement, public health and the rest of the public has to show improvement in the quality of health, ensure privacy, security, and stability of medical records, families have to be involved in care and finally and most important; health disparities have to show a reduction in