Home Care Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Telehealth to Promote Medication Compliance among Older Adults.

Q3 Nursing

Home healthcare now Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1097/NHH.0000000000001230

Diane Renee Logan, Genevieve Pinto Zipp

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Abstract

Medication noncompliance among older adults is a persistent problem resulting in morbidity, hospital readmissions, and decreased quality of life. Home care nurses are in a key position to assist older adults to employ medication compliance strategies that are tailor-made to fit their individual needs and abilities. The purpose of this study was to understand the knowledge and attitudes of home care nurses regarding telehealth practices to promote medication compliance of older adult patients and their perceived readiness to do so. We employed a qualitative research approach using semi-structured interviews. Individual interviews were conducted via Teams platform for a maximum of 60 minutes. Participants were home care nurses who use telehealth technology to advance medication compliance strategies. Ten interviews were conducted. Several themes emerged from the data which suggested home care nurses accept telehealth technology, are supportive of its continued use, and are willing to be educated on future advances in this technology to assist older adults with medication compliance strategies. Universities and home care agencies must provide opportunities to prepare nurses to utilize telehealth technologies to promote medication compliance among older adult home care patients.

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家庭护理护士对远程医疗促进老年人遵医嘱的认识和态度。

老年人不遵医嘱用药是一个长期存在的问题，会导致发病、再次入院和生活质量下降。家庭护理护士在帮助老年人采用符合其个人需求和能力的遵医策略方面处于关键地位。本研究的目的是了解居家护理护士对远程医疗实践的认识和态度，以促进老年患者的用药依从性，并了解他们是否准备好这样做。我们采用了半结构化访谈的定性研究方法。个人访谈通过团队平台进行，最长时间为 60 分钟。参与者是使用远程保健技术推进遵医嘱用药策略的家庭护理护士。共进行了 10 次访谈。从数据中得出的几个主题表明，家庭护理护士接受远程保健技术，支持继续使用该技术，并愿意接受有关该技术未来发展的教育，以帮助老年人遵守用药策略。大学和居家护理机构必须提供机会，让护士做好准备，利用远程保健技术促进老年居家护理病人遵医嘱用药。

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Home healthcare now Medicine-Medicine (all)

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0.70

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203

期刊介绍： Home Healthcare Now is the professional, contemporary journal serving the educational and communication needs of home care and hospice nurses. The journal is highly interactive and timely, focusing on the multidimensional, interdisciplinary and specialty practice areas of home care nursing. Clinical, operational, and educational home care nursing issues are the core of the publication; plentiful columns and features focus on practical, up-to-date approaches to everyday situations, as well as analysis and interpretation of how healthcare trends affect the home care nurse''s practice.