Attaining Mutual Goals in Telehealth Encounters: Utilizing King’s Framework for Telenursing Practice

Abstract

Access to essential health-promoting nursing care is increasingly facilitated through the expanding scope and capabilities provided through the utilization of telehealth technologies. Telehealth technologies facilitate the nursing process with clients at a distance in multiple ways, such as video conferencing, video conferencing with peripheral diagnostic tools, and store and forward modalities. Nursing care needs to remain the focus of care, but technology is a useful ancillary tool to help clients achieve health outcomes. The authors of this article discuss nursing practice and the use of telehealth technology and how King’s concepts and theory of goal attainment can be used as a guiding framework.

Keywords

King’s conceptual system telehealth telenursing theory of goal attainment in practice

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