Telenursing Future in Solving the Nursing Global Workforce Gap

Zainab Attia Abdallah, Engy Abdel Rahman Khamis, Fatma M. Ibrahim and Ayiat Allah Wagdy Farag

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Abstract: Although there are 28 million nurses worldwide, it is not enough to meet patient needs. So we face a future with too much work, with too few workers. Telenursing can help in solving this issue by utilizing the technology in providing distance healthcare and health education to patients/clients with lower costs, effective services and proper clients' satisfaction especially in rural areas through insufficient accessibility to local clinics or hospitals. Telenursing can use phone calls, video visits and remote monitoring devices in different nursing fields as family, pediatric, geriatric nursing and/or others. Telenursing can improve the quality of nursing care for patients by building relationships with them and improve the preferable outcomes. Telenursing also can decrease the work burden on nurses and direct contacts with patients with negative related health consequences specially after COVID 19 pandemic.

Keywords: telenursing; telehealth; telemedicine; distance healthcare; nursing practice; nursing education; nursing shortage; technology; COVID 19 pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.110745

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