What is telehealth nursing?

 It is no secret that telehealth has changed the healthcare landscape in the last few years. It allows patients to access healthcare through the comfort of their homes. Telehealth involves using technology for providing care, health-related information, communication and administration purposes. For providers, it reduced load on the hospital resources, introduced the concept of remote patient monitoring among other benefits.  

What is Telehealth Nursing? 

Telenursing refers to the use of telehealth and telemedicine to conduct nursing and deliver care remotely. Nurses that practice telehealth use technologies like webcams, internet and telephones to deliver effective care remotely.  

Telehealth solutions now provide more advanced nursing care in virtual environments by using mobile smart phones, kiosks, and web-based and digital platforms. The telehealth contact varies depending on the setting and the patient's needs. 

Benefits 

Just like Telehealth, telehealth nursing also has various benefits, including: 

Improved access to care 

Telehealth nursing increases patient access to care, particularly for affected populations and those living in rural locations where the nearest clinics may be out of reach. 

Decreased Exposure 

During the COVID pandemic, there was a lot of risk for patients to contract the virus in vissits to the hospital. Telehealth nursing solved this problem. Telehealth can help patients, particularly those with impaired immune systems, avoid illness exposure and safeguard clinicians from catching illnesses brought into their facilities by patients. 

Chronic Care Management 

Remote patient monitoring, and other telehealth technologies and services can help empower patients and make chronic illnesses and aftercare treatments easier to manage. 

Saves time 

Patients can save time and money by adopting telehealth services, which improves access to health care. Telehealth nursing allows patients to consult with a nurse from the comfort of their own home. This decreases the amount of time it takes to book an in-person visit or deal with any other issues that may emerge when seeking treatment. 

Balancing Workloads 

Nurses are required to perform numerous clinical, administrative, and caregiving duties.  They must be able to manage their time, energy, and resources wisely to provide the best possible care to their patients while avoiding stress and burnout. 

How do Nurses practice telehealth 

Nurses can practice telehealth from any place. They can use technology to provide telehealth services in their homes, doctor's offices, jails, clinics, and hospitals. 

In an emergency, nurses from all across the world can help set up phone triage systems. Nurses can monitor a patient's oxygen levels, heart rate, breathing, blood glucose, and other vital signs in a telehealth setting.  

Patients are frequently referred to telehealth nurses by their managed health care organisation. Nurses must be present to monitor patient access to the system. Most of the time, the goal is to limit the number of visits to the ER by patients.  

Patients seek assistance from their nurses via digital health. In non-emergency scenarios, patients can ask the nurse to take their blood pressure or glucose levels. Nurses can show patients how to properly dress a wound or manage a minor burn.  

Conclusion 

Telehealth nursing is a valuable way to provide healthcare services remotely. It proves to be an effective way of chronic care management, providing mental health counselling, and improving access to care in rural areas. CareCloud’s Telehealth software provides all tools a provider needs to remotely monitor a patient and deliver nursing facilities.