Postoperative Telenursing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Improving Patient Outcomes.
Ayşe Topal Hançer, Pervin Demir
PMID 36690512WHAT IT FOUND
Septorhinoplasty patients who received telenursing training had significantly lower anxiety scores and shorter hospital stays compared to standard care.
Patients reported high satisfaction and comfort with the remote nursing support.
Key findings
01Patients in the telenursing intervention group had significantly lower State Anxiety Inventory scores than the control group.
02The telenursing group had a significantly shorter postoperative hospital discharge time compared to the control group.
03Patients in the intervention group reported high satisfaction and comfort levels with telenursing on a verbal analog scale.
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What it does not show
All participants had access to smartphones or computers and were fluent in using the necessary technology, limiting generalizability to patients without these resources. The study was conducted in a single center in Turkey, which may affect the applicability of results to other healthcare settings.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume telenursing is universally applicable to all postoperative patients. The study participants all had access to smartphones or computers and were fluent in using the technology, so the results may not apply to patients lacking these resources or digital literacy.