Nurse's Role in Applying Telemedicine in the Management of Heart failure in Elderly
Anasonye, Nonye (2019)
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2019
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201901221493
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201901221493
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Abstract:
With recent development in information technology, the author developed interest on how heart failure elderly patients can be cared for from a distance with the use of digital devises to reduce rehospitalization, healthcare cost, death, and improve selfcare adherence through constant monitoring. The aim of the study was to find out the role nurses play in applying telemedicine in the management of heart failure elderly patient by answering the research question what are the roles nurses play in using telemedicine in treating elderly heart failure patient? The author employed literature review method in the qualitative study where by 15 scientific articles were used as materials for the study. The scientific articles selected was analyzed using inductive content analysis. Orem’s theory of self-care deficit that specifies when nursing is needed was applied to the study. The result identifies the nursing roles as technical, administrative and patient centered roles with the use of information and communication technological digital devises. The study provides Knowledge on how care can be offered from a distance for heart failure elderly patient by identifying the roles nurses play in using telemedicine in treating heart failure elderly patient. However, it is not clear which of the roles contributed more to the achieved results, therefore, more research is needed. Due to limited research about the topic, time, money and language constraint, the author used only free available full text articles for the study. The study was commissioned by DeDiWe.
With recent development in information technology, the author developed interest on how heart failure elderly patients can be cared for from a distance with the use of digital devises to reduce rehospitalization, healthcare cost, death, and improve selfcare adherence through constant monitoring. The aim of the study was to find out the role nurses play in applying telemedicine in the management of heart failure elderly patient by answering the research question what are the roles nurses play in using telemedicine in treating elderly heart failure patient? The author employed literature review method in the qualitative study where by 15 scientific articles were used as materials for the study. The scientific articles selected was analyzed using inductive content analysis. Orem’s theory of self-care deficit that specifies when nursing is needed was applied to the study. The result identifies the nursing roles as technical, administrative and patient centered roles with the use of information and communication technological digital devises. The study provides Knowledge on how care can be offered from a distance for heart failure elderly patient by identifying the roles nurses play in using telemedicine in treating heart failure elderly patient. However, it is not clear which of the roles contributed more to the achieved results, therefore, more research is needed. Due to limited research about the topic, time, money and language constraint, the author used only free available full text articles for the study. The study was commissioned by DeDiWe.