PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the impact of telenursing on patients discharged with ostomies resulting from cancer treatment. DESIGN Quasi-experimental design with surveys. SETTING Large tertiary care center in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 28 patients with cancer in two groups: traditional home health and home health plus telenursing. METHODS Recorded the number of home health...

BACKGROUND Pediatric rheumatic diseases have a significant impact on children's quality of life and family functioning. Disease control and management of the symptoms are important to minimize disability and pain. Specialist clinical nurses play a key role in supporting medical teams, recognizing poor disease control and the need for treatment changes, providing a resource to patients on treatm...

Syndromic data sources have been sought to improve the timely detection of increased influenza transmission. This study set out to examine the prospective performance of telenursing chief complaints in predicting influenza activity. Data from two influenza seasons (2007/08 and 2008/09) were collected in a Swedish county (population 427,000) to retrospectively determine which grouping of telenur...

Bioinformation is at the very core of 21st-century healthcare. Telehealth consists of the range of healthcare-related services delivered through bioinformation-aided telecommunications across health-related disciplines, including nursing. Whereas it is clear that bedside patient-centered nursing can never be replaced, recent developments in bioinformation-aided telenursing will undoubtedly cont...

Introduction: Telenursing is the effective strategic in nursing intervention. It gives benefits many chronic cares, especially diabetes mellitus. This study aimed to gather evidences about application of telenursing and its for DM patients. 
 Methods: integrative literature review was conducted this study. PRISMA flowchart used as guidance searching. Online databases were Pubmed, ProQuest,...

We investigated satisfaction with a Swedish telenursing service and the health-care-seeking behaviour among callers who received a less urgent level of health care than they expected. A postal questionnaire was sent to a random selection of callers (n = 273) to Swedish Healthcare Direct in October 2008. The 'cases' were 18 callers where the telenurse recommended a lower level of health care tha...

Nurses have an immense impact on the growth and scope of Telehealth as they embrace diverse roles. TeleNursing introduces transformational change which positively impacts both clients and providers, increasing access to care and reducing the time and costs associated with traveling for health care. Integration of clinical support and remote diagnostic tools inspire new uses of Telehealth, thus ...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to describe telenurses' experiences of working with computerized decision support systems and how such systems could influence their work. BACKGROUND Telenursing is an expanding service in many Western countries, and in recent years centralization of telenursing services has occurred in Sweden. In connection with this, the use of computerized de...