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Nursing Telecare Public Stories and Practices

Authors:
Annemarie van Hout
Jeannette Pols
Marike Hettinga

Keywords: Nursing telecare, policies, etnnografy

Abstract:
There are high expectations on the use of telecare. In this paper, we look into the way these expectations are expressed in what we call public stories and how these stories relate to telecare practices. We have conducted a quick search on the public stories of care organizations and policy documents and ethnographic research on nursing telecare practices in a homecare organization. Public stories tend to describe telecare as a phenomena that is here, that is autonomous and has positive outcomes. The nursing practices show that telecare has effect on care as we know it. With the technology come all kinds of changes in care, brought on by the technology and its users. Telecare needs care professionals and patients to make it fit by tinkering with it, which leads to good care. This is not a part of the public story, a discrepancy that can cause governmental policies to be unfit for day-to-day practices.

Pages: 16 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-384-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015