abstract:Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology in the provision of nursing services whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field, it is part of telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, etc.
The issue has probed into the classification and technologicalschemeoftelenursing and realizationof telemonitor, meanwhile look forward to the long-rangeprospectoftelenursing.