From the reviews:
In an era of increasingly restrictive health care reimbursement patterns coupled with rapidly changing patient demographics, Telenursing is an important text for readers considering taking part in the development and expansion of this evolving, technology-based model of care delivery. ... The strength of this book is the clarity provided by the concise systematic structure the editors have established for the contributors' chapter submissions. ... Clinicians from all disciplines are well advised to understand and participate in the development of both telenursing and telehealth. (Lisa Wentworth Smith, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 307 (1), January, 2012)Introduction to telenursing.- Telenursing: past and on-going technical and clinical work.- Affordable telenursing systems.- Information supporting systems in telenursing.- Telementoring in telenursing.- Universal telenursing triage.- Ethical dilemmas in telephone nursing.- Development of a telenursing system for patients with chronic conditions.- Nursing sans frontieres: a three year case study.- Mobile Phone Diabetic's Logbook.- An Ambitious Telenursing Program to Open up Isolated Locations.- The Major Challenge for the 21st Century telenursing.- Pioneering Telenursing Project in the Philippines.- Factors affecting the implementation of telenursing.- Expectations and the Shaping of Telenursing in Africa.- Integration of the Living Lab Approach in Telenursing.- Telenursing and patients' recovery from bypass surgery.