Patients’ experiences of telenursing follow‐up care after bariatric surgery

Abstract

Funding informationWe would like to thank the funding agency MEDTEQ Innovation for Health, Fonds de soutien à l'innovation en santé et services sociaux (FSISS) as well as the McGill Ingram School of Nursing for the Summer Bursary 2019 offered to Mr.

Telenursing

“…Articles in other languages, published before 2008, and those lacking definitions of the MeSH terms were excluded. This resulted in 15 articles defining telenursing, telecare, telehealth, and virtual nursing 6,9,10,13–24 . The literature search was then narrowed to the most recent 5 years, which excluded one article from 2011 23 .…”

“…Of the remaining 14 articles, two articles were removed because of a lack of clarity surrounding each article's proposed definitions 9,24 . This process resulted in 12 articles of collected research 6,10,13–22 …”

“…The final attribute of remote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration describes actively working with interdisciplinary team members using bidirectional communication. Existing telenursing models include interaction between the virtual nurse and bedside nursing staff, physicians, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, other multidisciplinary team members, and patients and families 18,20,21 . The virtual nurse must communicate effectively and display strong collaborative skills to provide quality care without being physically present.…”

“…Searches of the literature revealed various definitions of telenursing but did not reveal an existing concept analysis. 6,9,10,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Understanding the concept of telenursing is necessary to integrate this concept within the context of research on nursing workload, nursing shortages, and patient and nurse outcomes in acute care hospitals.…”

“…This resulted in 15 articles defining telenursing, telecare, telehealth, and virtual nursing. 6,9,10,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] The literature search was then narrowed to the most recent 5 years, which excluded one article from 2011. 23 However, one article from 2008 was retained as it was the only definition to refer to the nursing scope of practice, which was considered a distinguishing feature.…”