The Role, Problems, Obstacles and Needs in Caring COVID-19 Patients with Home Isolation by Using the Telehealth
Keywords:
COVID-19, telenursing, home isolationAbstract
This sequential explanatory mixed-method research aimed to study nurses’ roles, problems, obstacles, and needs of nurses in caring for COVID-19 patients who entered the home isolation system. The samples were purposively selected: 1) 76 professional nurses, 2) 353 COVID-19 patients, and 3) 10 doctors who are in the home isolation system of the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation. The research instrument consisted of a questionnaire on patient care behavior by nurses and a questionnaire on experiences of receiving care by patients. Qualitative data used focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. All instruments were tested with content validity of 0.98, 0.98, 0.93, and 0.80, respectively
Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. and qualitative data by content analysis. Quantitative research results found that the role that nurses perceive most is advocacy. The role that patients perceive most is the manager. The most common obstacle was the restriction of using communication devices to report symptoms. The results of the qualitative research found that support needs include a telephone for monitoring symptoms, conference meetings between doctors and nurses, and guidelines for telehealth. In conclusion, the roles and responsibilities of nurses using telehealth for caring patients are completely. It still needs to be developed to provide care for patients with other infectious diseases.
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