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CE TEST QUESTIONS
LEARNING OUTCOME: Seventy-five percent of participants will demonstrate knowledge of a concept analysis aimed at providing clarity around the concept of telenursing within the context of researching nursing shortages, nursing satisfaction, and patient and nurse outcomes in various healthcare settings by achieving a minimum score of 70% on the outcomes-based posttest.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After completing this continuing professional development activity, the participant will apply knowledge gained to:
1. Recognize the background information the author considered when planning a concept analysis of telenursing.
2. Differentiate the defining attributes of the concept of telenursing.
1. In describing telehealth nursing, Watkins and Neubrander (2022) defined distance nursing services as including consultation, assessment, monitoring, treatment, and
a. patient safety.
b. collaboration.
c. patient education.
2. Schlachta-Fairchild et al. (2008) stated that the scope of nursing practice
a. is limited by telenursing.
b. expands with telenursing.
c. does not change with telenursing.
3. The author determined that the conceptual definition of telenursing is the delivery of care at a distance and includes which of the following elements?
a. changing the delivery medium of nursing care
b. using information and communication technologies
c. improving the quality of care by supplementing available services
4. Which defining attribute of telenursing reflects care that nurses who are not physically present provide through observational assessments and verbal or technological interventions?
a. touchless care
b. remote nursing intervention support
c. virtual integration into direct patient care
5. Which defining attribute of telenursing reflects the provision of nursing interventions to support patient care and the bedside clinical care team from afar?
a. touchless care
b. remote nursing intervention support
c. virtual integration into direct patient care
6. In the model case the author presented, the nurse's assessment of the patient's mental status by checking orientation to person, place, and time reflects which defining attribute of telenursing?
a. touchless care
b. remote nursing intervention support
c. virtual integration into direct patient care
7. The bedside nurse dictated her assessment to the remote nurse, who then simultaneously documented the assessment in the electronic medical record. This reflects which defining attribute of telenursing?
a. touchless care
b. remote nursing intervention support
c. virtual integration into direct patient care
8. When the nurse activated the rapid response team and entered the physician's orders into the computer, this exemplified which defining attribute of telenursing?
a. touchless care
b. remote nursing intervention support
c. virtual integration into direct patient care
9. The case the author described where the patient was at risk for pulling out the peripheral IV tubing and falling was considered a related case because the only attribute of telenursing that applied was
a. touchless care.
b. remote nursing intervention support.
c. virtual integration into direct patient care.
10. Arneson et al. (2020) noted that a potential negative consequence of telenursing is
a. the virtual nurse risking the loss of skill competency.
b. patients reporting dissatisfaction with telenursing.
c. technological glitches that impede care delivery.