Teleenfermería un nuevo avance para el cuidado del paciente

Abstract

Introduction: Telenursing consists of providing the health service by applying information and communication technologies when there are drawbacks such as access, distance and time, for this reason, incorporating them entails several benefits such as speeding up processes, diagnoses, treatments, improve quality and adequately train the health professional. Objective: To analyze the importance of telenursing as a new advance in patient care. Methods: A quantitative approach was applied with a descriptive design, the population was made up of nursing professionals from the Ambato General Hospital IESS. Results: It was obtained that 60% of the respondents use their mobile device and technological tools for their daily activities such as review of results, requesting patient information, among others, so it is necessary to train health personnel to improve usability. and quality of service. Conclusions: It is important to know that telenursing is considered an innovative proposal in order to optimize human resources and provide care to patients with access problems to face-to-face care.