Telehealth and Telemedicine Impact on Nursing Informatics (NR-512)

This report examines the evolving role of telehealth and telemedicine within nursing informatics, focusing on its impact on patient care and the skills required for nurses in this digital age. It highlights how these technologies facilitate remote patient monitoring, improve care delivery, and integrate with existing healthcare systems. The report delves into the advantages, such as enhanced patient access and improved quality of care, and the disadvantages, including technical training challenges and potential privacy concerns. It also explores the technical skills required of informatics nurses, such as content curation and data evaluation, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of these technologies in advancing nursing practice and delivering top-notch healthcare. References from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and other sources are included to support the findings.

P R E S E N T E D B Y …
Health Informatics Technology in 20018: Telehealth and
Telemedicine
Chamberlain University
Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics
NR-512

Telehealth topic presented with rational for selection
Telehealth is becoming a new reality in studying nursing
(American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2017).
This topic would provide the graduate nurses with
knowledge and skills to improve patient care
This topic would provide information on integrated
technologies which can be used to coordinate patient care
(Shaw, Sensmeier & Anderson, 2017).
The topic would help deliberate significance of Telehealth
for advance nurse practitioner.

How Telehealth/Telemedicine impacts nursing informatics
Use of Telehealth technologies helps nurses to interrelate
and monitor patients remotely.
 It permits more effective delivery of Care.
Helps nursing informatics to combine their
clinical expertise and technical information to
ascertain technological innovation that meets
requirements of organization(Sweeney, 2018).
It helps offer digital assessment to treat patients and
communicate with other health care providers
Reaching more presence in the health care and address
telehealth reimbursement.

Nursing informatics skills that were used to develop this
assignment
Technical skills: Informatics nursing expected to know
how to utilize productivity tools
Content curation. Entails research, save and archive
content (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
Learned skills are open programs , generate files ,
save and open files, rename files as well as
folders .
Other skills are evaluate data and its sources.
Expertise to capture data and information
associated with clinical care (Rutledge et al 2017).

5Pro’s and Con’s of topic are presented with convincing
arguments
Pros
This topic provide insight on better patient care
quality(Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
There are extended specialist and referring physician
access
The subject addresses integration of technology to
improve support nursing practice.
Subject addresses interdisciplinary and emerging field to
data science in healthcare (McGonigle, Hunter, Sipes &
Hebda, 2014).

Cons
The study of the topic could be difficult in technical
training for the nurses (Tuckson, Edmunds &Hodgkins,
2017).
With the study of the topic the nurses will have fewer in
person consultations (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).

Continued…
Pros
With this topic patients would prefer their health care providers turn to
telehealth
With the study of the topic there would be improved access and quality
(American Associations of Colleges of Nursing, 2011).
There is technical training and equipment
Cons
One would have a high demand for additional sessions with the patients
When applying the concept learnt in the topic there could be issues such as
privacy and confidentiality that arises
The topic lacks the aspects of overlooking physical interaction between
nurses and patients (Rutledge & Gray, 2015)
It could be expense to study this topic.

Conclusion
The subject helps to recognize knowledge in the informatics
Technology.
It enhances evaluation of the significance of the
technological innovation utilization in Advance nursing
practice.
The application of Telemedicine and Telehealth would bring top notch
health care to the patient.
It would ensure that there is patient monitoring; nurses rely on the
technology to keep tabs on patient conditions.
There would be training for the nurses when they study the subject.
The nurses’ informatics could educate health care employees to use
Telehealth and monitoring equipment.

References
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2017). AACN essentials. Retrieved from http://www.aacnnursing.org/Education-
Resources/AACN-Essentials.
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
American Associations of Colleges of Nursing. (2011). The essentials of master’s education in nursing. Retrieved from
http://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/MastersEssentials11.pdf
Kvedar, J., Coye, M. J., & Everett, W. (2014). Connected health: A review of technologies and strategies to improve patient care with
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McGonigle, D., Hunter, K., Sipes, C., & Hebda, T. (2014). Why nurses need to understand nursing informatics [Everyday Informatics]. AORN
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