Charles C. Sharpe

Telenursing (eBook, PDF)

Nursing Practice in Cyberspace

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313004865
• Artikelnr.: 37817214

Autorenporträt

CHARLES C. SHARPE is a clinical nurse specialist who has been a member of the faculty of several nursing departments in colleges in southeastern Pennsylvania./e He is also a consultant who provides litigation support and research services for trial attorneys. Presently, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Lehigh-Carbon Community College and lecturer in the Paralegal and Continuing Education Programs.

Inhaltsangabe

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