Home visiting, traditional home nursing tools and techniques: Toward developing proposals for modern nursing innovation and technologies
Keywords:
innovation development, home visiting, digital health technologyAbstract
Home visiting is increasingly important and in high demand in the context of Thailand entering a complete aged society and increasing access to home visit services. This was particularly influenced by the National Health Security Office (NHSO) policy encouraging private sector participation in home health services. Therefore, effective home visits were important and challenging to develop. This article aimed to promote the efficiency of home visits by integrating digital health technologies.
The scope of content included; 1) key principles for effective home visiting—namely, efficiency, tele-nursing, and holistic health; 2) structured home visit activities—such as planning and preparation, nursing interventions during the home visit, post-visit actions, and home visit summary; 3) essential competencies of home-visiting nurses; 4) the role of nurses in home visits - assessment, home care planning and referrals, nursing care provision, evaluation and referral; and 5) guidelines for integrating home visits with digital health technology to foster nursing innovation.
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