Knowledge and Attitude of Faculty of Nursing Students regarding Telenursing
Amira El- Said Abd Ellatif, Doaa Mohamed Sobhy Elsayed, Taisser Hamido Abosree
Abstract
Background: Telenursing is cost effective and time saving innovative technology that can playa vital role in patient care and enable them to access nursing services at home. The aim of the studywas to assess the knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding telenursing. Research Design:A descriptive research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: This study was conductedat Faculty of Nursing /Benha University. Sample: Simple random sample was used in this study andthe sample size was 214 students from fourth academic year. Tools: Two tools were used in this studyto collect the data. (I): A structured interviewing questionnaire which consisted of two parts to assessnursing students' demographic characteristics and their knowledge about telenursing. (II): Scale tomeasure attitude of nursing students regarding telenursing. Results: 86% of the studied nursingstudents their age were from 20 to 22 years old with mean age was 21.15±1.86, 69.2% of them werefemale, 86% of them didn't have training courses about telenursing, 45.8% of them had average totalknowledge score and 65.4% of them had positive attitude scores regarding telenursing. Conclusion:There was highly statically significant relation between the studied nursing students' total knowledgescores and their total attitude scores. Recommendations: Develop and implement educationalprograms to increase knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding telenursing