Tele-Nursing

  • Claudia Bartz - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Pirkko Kouri (ISfTeH Board of Directors Liaison to the TWG) - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Konstantinos Antypas - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Vision:
Nurses extending their reach through technology and improving the quality of healthcare delivery worldwide.

Mission:
Provide a forum for exchange of knowledge and experiences of nurses and others who are working with or supporting nurses using eHealth applications.

Objectives:
• Technology:
   - Advocate for increased use and evaluation of telehealth services by nurses.
   - Stimulate innovative ideas and promote initiatives for further development of eHealth.
• Business:
   - Support interdisciplinary telehealth collaboration for improved healthcare delivery and outcomes.
• Professional:
   - Advance nurses’ knowledge and skills in telehealth through dissemination of research findings,
     education programmes, and practice guidelines.
   - Advocate ethical use of telehealth services.

Members:
Log on to the website and see the list of ISfTeH Nurse members at www.isfteh.org/members

Collaborations:
• American Telemedicine Association Telehealth Nursing Special Interest Group
• International Council of Nurses Telenursing Network
• South African Telemedicine Association Telehealth Nursing Special Interest Group

Virtual Education Presentations

 

Virtual Nursing Webinar (19 November 2018) :

On Monday, 19th November 2018 the TeleNursing Working Group of the ISfTeH organised a webinar with the theme: Nordic e-Health National Strategies for Nurses: Content, Vision, Results and International Relevance. The first presenter, Pirkko Kouri, the Vice-President of ISfTeH and Principal Lecturer of the Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, presented the Finnish strategy along with their experiences from developing it and applying it. The second presenter, Kathy Mølstad, Senior Adviser for the Norwegian Nursing Association, presented the Norwegian their experiences from developing and applying a strategy for eHealth and later a platform for innovation. There were about 30 participants in the webinar, and some of them were actively involved in the discussion that followed the presentations. Among other topics, the discussion evolved around nursing aspects of Electronic Health Records in Nordic and other countries.
Here is the link to the Recorded Session. 

 

Virtual Nursing Education Session (9 April 2018):

  • Intervention Research in Nursing: Where we are now and why we need it (Clarissa Rodrigues, PhD)
  • Tele-Assistance Strategies to Support Institutionalized Elderly (Patricia Dias, MSc)

Watch the video from webinar

 

Virtual Nursing Education Session (22 May 2017):

Evidence-based Practice of Tele-ICU implementation

Watch the video from webinar (the session starts at Minute 53)

 

Virtual Nursing Education Session (4 November 2016):

Watch the video from webinar

 

Med-e-Tel 2016 (8 April 2016)

Watch the video from webinar

Virtual Nursing Education Session (20 January 2016)

CBTms2015 "Telehealth for Universal Health Coverage," 20th ISfTeH International Conference, Rio de Janeiro Brazil (28-30 October 2015):

ICN Conference 2015 (20 June 2015):

Med-e-Tel (24 April 2015):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (20 November 2014):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (23 July 2014):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (11 April 2013):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (15 November 2012):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (18 July 2012):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (18 April 2012):

Virtual Nursing Education Sessions (18 January 2012)

 

eHealth Strategies

 

Finnish Nurses Association's Digital Social and Health Services Strategy, May 2021:

https://sairaanhoitajat.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E-health-2021_.pdf

eHealth Strategy of the Finnish Nurses Association 2015-2020:

http://www.nurses.fi/nursing_and_nurse_education_in_f/ehealth-strategy-of-the-finnish-/

Working groups