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Telenursing Nursing Practice in Cyberspace
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Charles C. Sharpe
Book Code: T304
ISBN: 0-86569-304-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-304-3
280 pages
Auburn House
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Any nurse interested in practicing telenursing should read this book, which well defines issues that telenurses should consider. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students.
    —Choice
Description: This is the first book to explore this emergent role of the nursing profession. It examines the unique legal, regulatory and professional issues this neoteric mode of nursing practice presents. Telenursing as a subset of telehealth is defined and a review of its history, present status, and future in the U.S. health care system is discussed. Concomitant legal accountability and risk for malpractice liability are examined. Risk management strategies and survival tactics in the event of a lawsuit are presented--particularly the legal significance of, and essential need for, defensive nursing documentation. A brief overview of malpractice law is provided and the essentials of requisite malpractice insurance for the telenurse practitioner are outlined. The book also addresses a number of other professional, regulatory, and licensure issues, particularly the contentious issue of multistate licensing and the various models to facilitate it that are being offered, and rejected, by nursing organizations and associations. The anticipated changes in our health care delivery system that will be engendered by breakthroughs in science and technology are described. The implications of such changes for patients as consumers of health care are analyzed--particularly the privacy and confidentiality of electronic medical records.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Definitions
  • Telehealth: Past, Present, Future
  • Nursing Informatics
  • American Nurses Association Initiatives in Telenursing
  • The National Council of State Boards of Nursing
  • Licensure Issues in Telenursing
  • Multistate Licensure Issues in Telenursing
  • The National Council of State Boards of Nursing Mutual Recognition Model for Nursing Regulation and the Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact
  • The American Nurses Association Position on Multistate Licensure and the Compact
  • Telenursing and the Nursing Profession
  • Educating Nurses About Telenursing and Tele-technology
  • Telenursing and Nursing Practice
  • Telephone Triage and Consultation as a Subset of Telenursing
  • Advanced Practice Nurses in Telenursing
  • Legal Issues in Telenursing
  • Nursing Malpractice Liability in Telenursing
  • Telehealth and the Health Care Consumer
  • Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Telehealth
  • Privacy and Confidentiality of Computerized Medical Records
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-038047
LCC Class: RT42
Dewey Class: 610
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