Telenursing – new trend in IT society of the 21st century
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e-Health, health care, telenursingAbstract
Rapid development of telecommunication and IT in Poland allows to provide next generation services. The Telenursing system – nursing practice using remote IT and communication technologies is a method to assure permanence in providing care to patients. It may encompass gathering clinical data on a patient by means of a video telephone, continuing nursing care and educating patients from a distance. This system may by extremely useful for the patients suffering from chronic diseases. At present, Telenursing in the world began to be treated as one of the fields of nursing, perfectly complementing traditional nursing practice, in which a nurse acts as a service provider towards a beneficiary which is a patient and their family. In light of contemporary nursing practice and the existing trends, it shall be no efforts spared to introduce this new field of nursing in Poland. Telenursing may significantly influence the increase in health safety of many patients, especially those who live in the country and small towns distant from stationary medical care as well as it may impose a decrease of costs in other areas of the medical care system.
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