let me explain how the use of an evidence-based practice model helped the care team develop the care plan for Caitlynn and her family,
Caring for Caitlynn requires input from various healthcare professionals, including the lead nurse, the pediatrician nurse, the lead pediatrician, the respiratory therapist, the social worker, the parents, the bedside nurse, and the home nurse after Caitlynn is released from the hospital setting. As the various health care professionals provide health care and other social support services, the parents will be consulted for the various decisions throughout Caitlynn’s care plan. Because the patient’s parents are separated and live in towns away from the hospital, Skype enabled communication between the social worker, the nurses, and the parents.
There is a lot of evidence that I found in my search that is relevant and useful in making decisions on the use of telehealth in remote collaboration to ensure safety and improved outcomes for Caitlynn.
Telehealth and telemedicine are both evidence-based approaches to care delivery that have proven to potentially overcome several barriers, including geographical barriers to access, delivery of health, and coordination and collaboration of health care delivery services. For instance, in an article by Salgado et al. (2021), telehealth was identified as a critical tool in Georgia’s efforts to manage HIV care in that telehealth successfully bridged the gaps in patient care and training of local HIV care providers, thus enabling the provision of comprehensive HIV care. Additionally, a study by Jalilian et al. (2019) noted that the use of mobile health and telehealth technologies in post-ICU recovery clinics validated the usefulness of telehealth in remote patient management and monitoring.