Teleconsultation as an advanced practice nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic based on Roy and Chick-Meleis
Maria Auxiliadora Rodrigues, Ana Beatriz Serra Hercules, Juliana Rizzo Gnatta, Juliana Chaves Coelho, Aline Nair Biaggio Mota, Ângela Maria Geraldo Pierin, Rosimere Ferreira Santana
Abstract
Teleconsultation can be classified as an advanced practice nursing that requires nurses' clinical reasoning based on a consistent theoretical framework to use in the nursing process. Our study conducted a theoretical-reflective analysis, based on Callista Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing and Chick-Meleis' Transition Theory, about the contribution of teleconsultation as an advanced practice nursing in the care of older adults with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. We reflect on this in two moments: "nursing theories and dealing with COVID-19" and "ways of adapting to new care models and advanced practice nursing," based on communication and information technologies. The worsening of the pandemic in Brazil changed life cycles, health/disease and organizational processes, demanding the development of an adaptive-transactional state by users and health care providers. Thus, information and communication technologies combined with advanced practice nursing can relieve social distancing and its repercussions on health care.