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Telehealth and Telenursing in COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Pandemisinde Telesağlık ve Telehemşirelik
Figen DIĞINa, Zeynep KIZILCIK ÖZKANb
aDepartment of Surgical Nursing, Kırklareli University Faculty of Health Sciences, Kırklareli, TURKEY
bDepartment of Surgical Nursing, Trakya University Faculty of Health Sciences, Edirne, TURKEY
Turkiye Klinikleri J Nurs Sci. 2021;13(4):987-93
doi: 10.5336/nurses.2020-80858
Article Language: EN
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ABSTRACT
 The use of masks, personal hygiene and social distance were recommended as protective measures in combating coronavirus (CoV). Some CoV disease measures (stay at home, social distance) taken due to the pandemic, prevented individuals from accessing routine health care. During this period, people should both stay at home and also benefit from routine health services. Telehealth applications come into service to help people while staying at home and supporting them with home-caring applications. While telehealth applications are used for provision of services in the fields of diagnosis, treatment, disease prevention, education and research, their use for tele-counseling, remote diagnosis and treatment and follow-up were also widespread. While telehealth applications reduces contamination risk through restricting inter-personal contact, they also enabled to treat the symptoms and other medical problems of diseased individuals. During the pandemic, telehealth applications increased the satisfaction of healthcare professionals and patients and medical and nursing associations supported the use of telehealth in the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As a result; the COVID-19 pandemic increased the need for telehealth applications and in the pandemic, health services provided by telehealth applications allow to limit the transmission of infection, to ensure continuity of care, to increase the participation of patients and their relatives in care, and to save time and costs. In addition to all the downsides of the COVID19 pandemic, it is thought to contribute to the development and spread of telehealth practices. However, the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased nurses' familiarity with the concept of telenursing and accelerated their adaptation to tele-nursing practices.

Keywords: Coronavirus; nursing; pandemic; telehealth; telenursing
ÖZET
 Koronavirüsle [coronavirus (CoV)] mücadelede koruyucu önlemler olarak maske kullanımı, kişisel hijyen ve sosyal mesafe önerildi. Pandemi nedeniyle alınan bazı yeni CoV hastalığı önlemleri (evde kalma, sosyal mesafe), bireylerin rutin sağlık hizmetlerine erişimini engelledi. Bu dönemde toplumun hem evde kalması hem de rutin sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlanması gerekliydi. Telesağlık uygulamaları, insanlara evde kalırken yardımcı olmak ve onları evde bakım uygulamalarıyla desteklemek için hizmete girdi. Telesağlık uygulamaları; tanı, tedavi, hastalık önleme, eğitim ve araştırma alanlarında hizmet sunumunda kullanılırken, tele-danışmanlık, uzaktan teşhis ve takip ve tedavi amaçlı kullanımları da yaygınlaştı. Telesağlık uygulamaları kişiler arası teması sınırlayarak, hastalık bulaşma riskini azaltırken, aynı zamanda virüs bulaşmış kişilerin semptomlarının ve diğer tıbbi sorunlarının tedavisine de izin verdi. Pandemi sürecinde telesağlık uygulamaları, sağlık profesyonellerinin ve hastaların memnuniyetini artırdı ve tıp ve hemşirelik dernekleri koronavirüs hastalığı-2019 [coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)] pandemisinde telesağlık kullanımını destekledi. Sonuç olarak, COVID-19 pandemisi, yüz yüze temas olmadan sağlık hizmetleri sunmayı amaçlayan telesağlık uygulamalarına olan ihtiyacı artırdı ve pandemide telesağlık uygulamalarıyla sağlanan sağlık hizmetleri; enfeksiyon bulaşını sınırlamaya, bakımın sürekliliğini sağlamaya, hasta ve yakınlarının bakıma katılımını artırmaya, zaman ve maliyetten tasarruf yapmaya olanak sağladı. COVID-19 pandemisinin tüm olumsuzluklarının yanı sıra telesağlık uygulamalarının gelişimine ve yaygınlaşmasına katkı sağladığı düşünülmektedir. Bununla birlikte COVID-19 pandemisi, hemşirelerin telehemşirelik kavramına aşinalıklarını artırmış ve telehemşirelik uygulamalarına adaptasyonunu hızlandırmış olabilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Koronavirüs; hemşirelik; pandemi; telesağlık; telehemşirelik
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5.2. Within hereby "Terms of Use", "Turkiye Klinikleri" reserves the rights for "Turkiye Klinikleri" services, "Turkiye Klinikleri" information, the products associated with "Turkiye Klinikleri" copyrights, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trademarks, "Turkiye Klinikleri" trade looks or its all rights for other entity and information it has through this website unless it is explicitly authorized by "Turkiye Klinikleri".

6. CHANGES IN THE TERMS OF USE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" in its sole discretion may change the hereby "Terms of Use" anytime announcing within the "SITE". The changed terms of the hereby "Terms of Use" will become valid when they are announced. Hereby "Terms of Use" cannot be changed by unilateral declarations of users.

7. FORCE MAJEURE

"Turkiye Klinikleri" is not responsible for executing late or never of this hereby "Terms of Use", privacy policy and "USER Contract" in any situation legally taken into account as force majeure. Being late or failure of performance or non-defaulting of this and similar cases like this will not be the case from the viewpoint of "Turkiye Klinikleri", and "Turkiye Klinikleri" will not have any damage liability for these situations. "Force majeure" term will be regarded as outside of the concerned party's reasonable control and any situation that "Turkiye Klinikleri" cannot prevent even though it shows due diligence. Also, force majeure situations include but not limited to natural disasters, rebellion, war, strike, communication problems, infrastructure and internet failure, power cut and bad weather conditions.

8. LAW AND AUTHORISATION TO FOLLOW

Turkish Law will be applied in practicing, interpreting the hereby "Terms of Use" and managing the emerging legal relationships within this "Terms of Use" in case of finding element of foreignness, except for the rules of Turkish conflict of laws. Ankara Courts and Enforcement Offices are entitled in any controversy happened or may happen due to hereby contract.

9. CLOSING AND AGREEMENT

Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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