Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health Abstracts SEARCH 2021 – The National Telehealth Research Symposium November 8–10, 2021 Virtual Meeting

摘要

The use of telehealth in an simulation can help meet the strategic goal of integrating telehealth competencies within nursing curricula (Smith, Watts, & Moss, 2018). Research is available on incorporation of telehealth simulation in nurse‐practitioner programs. However, the literature remains limited on the implementation and evaluation of telehealth simulations in prelicensure, undergraduate nursing education (Knight & Prettyman, 2020; Vaona et al., 2017). The new AACN Essentials specifically discusses the importance of teaching undergraduate students the basic concepts of telehealth systems for patient care, which falls under Domain 8, “Informatics and Healthcare Technologies” (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN, 2021]). Based on this revision to the Essentials, telehealth is an important aspect to incorporate into the undergraduate nursing curriculum to aid nursing students in learning to deliver safe patient care using enhanced communication technology.