Table 1 Recruitment and retention factors on which telehealth could have an effect
From: Supporting work practices through telehealth: impact on nurses in peripheral regions
POSITIVE EFFECTS |
|---|
Organizational factors |
✓ Counter work overload by (RC & RT): |
◦ Putting into place on-call systems |
◦ Stabilising services |
✓ Increased diversity of available care (RC & RT) |
✓ Stimulating work environment (RC & RT) |
Professional factors |
✓ Access to the support of colleagues in large centres (RC & RT) |
✓ Decreased feeling of professional isolation (RC & RT) |
✓ Possibility to receive a second opinion (RC & RT) |
✓ Better knowledge of remote medical teams through distance training (RC) |
✓ Contacts between peers (RC & RT) |
✓ Discussion about complex cases (RC & RT) |
✓ Decision-making support (RC & RT) |
Educational factors |
✓ Increased access to continued education (RC & RT) |
✓ Updating knowledge (RT) |
✓ Possibility to teach (RC) |
✓ Give recruits training better adapted to the needs of remote areas (RT) |
N EGATIVE E FFECTS |
Organizational factors |
✓ Justify the fact that physicians remain in large centres (RC) |
✓ Give perceptions of a staff shortage (RC) |
✓ An increase of heavy cases for remote areas (RC) |
Professional factors |
✓ Recruitment of people who do not have the necessary competencies to practice in remote regions (RT) |
Educational factors |
✓ Limited off-site training (RC) |