A school nurse is advocating for the use of telehealth in the ...

[Yolanda]

A school nurse is advocating for the use of telehealth in the school-based health clinic. What information does the nurse provide to support her request?
 
  a. It can help me teach kids with diabetes how to do insulin self-injection.
  b. Because I can only be at one school at a time, this will provide extra coverage.
  c. Telehealth can provide teaching prohibited by school policy.
  d. We can reduce absences and hospital admissions.

Question 2

The nurse who works in telehealth best evaluates that overarching goals for the program have been met with which information?
 
  a. Decreased mortality rate
  b. Fewer exacerbations of chronic illness
  c. Improved health status and quality of life
  d. Lowered costs for provision of health care

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Answer to Question 1

D
A recent study showed the use of telehealth reduced missed days of school and hospital admissions for kids who have asthma. This can be extrapolated to include children with other chronic diseases as well.
Telehealth can be used to improve self-efficacy in those with chronic illness, but this is not the most important reason for the nurse to provide.
Telehealth can improve health services delivered to schools in the absence of a provider, but this is not the most important reason the nurse should provide.
Telehealth is not a way to provide teaching prohibited by school policy.

Answer to Question 2

C
All options show good outcomes from the use of telehealth. However, the broadest measure is improved health status and quality of life.
Decreased mortality rate, in itself, is too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.
Fewer exacerbations of chronic illness is, in itself, too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.
Lowered costs for the provision of health care is, in itself, too narrow a measurement to evaluate broad goals.