What is Telenursing?

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        Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunication and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field it is part of telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, etc.

What are the advantages of telenursing?

• Telenursing may help solve increasing shortages of nurses;
•  To reduce distances and save travel time;
• To keep patients out of hospital.                                                                                    

         As a healthcare provider,  this program is very important because we can extend our services to the outpatient. In our country, majority of the hospitals has not yet implemented this program though there are some of the institutions who already started this program. An example of the institution who used this program is the Capitol University Medical Center; for instance, you are about to administer a drug to your patient but unfortunately, he/she has no stock with that specific drug. Instead of telling the watcher to buy the drug in the pharmacy which is very hassle, you, as an NOD  can order the drug directly to the pharmacy using the computer.