title: Telecommunication technologies in high-tech homecare.
abstract: The future of critical care nursing will be dependent upon the subspecialty's ability to prepare the high-tech homecare nurse for practice in the next millennium. Client self-management of highly complex interventional therapies will be enabled by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will facilitate the transitioning of critical care nursing to the home setting. Rapidly evolving technologic capabilities will be managed by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will assist in the development of a seamless health care delivery system, where quality of care is maintained in settings beyond the traditional boundaries of the intensive care unit.
authors.affiliation: Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: McNeal
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000451:nursing; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000458:organization & administration*