Nursing Students' Perspectives on Telenursing in Patient Care After Simulation

Background: This article presents the perspectives of undergraduate nursing students on telenursing in patient care after simulating three telenursing scenarios using real-time video and audio technology. Methods: An exploratory design using focus group interviews was performed; data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Five main categories arose: learning a different nursing role, influence on nursing assessment and decision making, reflections on the quality of remote comforting and care, empowering the patient, and ethical and economic reflections. Conclusions: Delivering telenursing care was regarded as important yet complex activity. Telenursing simulation should be integrated into undergraduate nursing education. (c) 2015 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Published by Elsevier Inc.