Health Economics

Telenursing is a method which refers the use of telecommunications and information technology in the provision of nursing services whenever a large physical distance exists between any number of nurses or patient and nurse. Telenursing is also a part of telemedicine and telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as teleconsultation,  telemonitoring and telediagnosis. It is also defined as the component of telehealth that occurs when nurses meet the health needs of clients using communication and information on web-based systems. It is also defined as the delivery, coordination and management of services and care provided using information and telecommunication technologies”. This may be considered as telenursing is a branch of the more general Nursing Informatics, the application of Information and Communication Technologies  to nursing scopes and activities