Reflection Learning

· Discuss how telehealth can assist to address equality of health care resource distribution. What barriers must be removed to achieve well-being, sufficiency, and health care access for all? 

      Telehealth can provide better patient care since it would be possible to assess patient information using a single computer. The fact that patients are provided with telemonitoring devices connected to the hospital system and their unique accounts results in a centralized method to manage their data. Resource distribution thus becomes cheaper and more accurate for the patients. Barriers in telehealth involve limited understanding of insurance covers, inaccessibility of community health resources, and inappropriate knowledge sharing (Almathami et al., 2020). These barriers can get eliminated by improving patient knowledge and ensuring the healthcare environments are equipped with reliable technology to connect with patients. Ensuring patients possess self-care desires is the best option in improving health environments and promoting accessibility to the suitable medicine and treatment procedures.

· In your discussion, consider concepts such as equity, respect, self-determinism, health literacy, cyclic disadvantage, and health care disparities among marginalized populations or groups.

      Healthcare disparities like discrimination affect equity that is required to improved positive health management. It is difficult for healthcare providers to generate high quality of life without understanding social factors like employment, lifestyle, income, accessibility to healthcare (CDC, 2021). Marginalized populations like African Americans and Hispanics access limited healthcare since they focus majority of their earnings on social needs. It is thus difficult to provide reliable healthcare improvement and procedures when patients’ physical conditions require better care. Cyclic disadvantage cause development of unhealthy behaviors and physical wellbeing when the affected persons become maladapted to their conditions. It is thus difficult to offer reliable care for such patients that find it hard to access affordable and high-quality care.

 

· Compare and contrast how each patient may benefit from telehealth services and the ethical considerations from the viewpoint of the nurse.

      Mr. Kasich can benefit from telehealth since he lives far from the healthcare provider. It would be effective to use telehealth to offer physicians his physical health status as the telemonitoring device records all physical statuses. Since Mr. Kasich suffers from lung cancer, heart failure, and diabetes, the processing of monitoring his vital signs is suitable to since his illnesses are chronic and can only get managed and have reduced severity.

            Mr. Lane shall benefit from telehealth since he spends most of his time in his truck. It is thus difficult for him to access physical healthcare facilities when his conditions need attention. Telehealth would provide a suitable method to communicate with physicians while on the road. In this way, it would be possible to generate reliable health improvement and management of the patient’s physical conditions.

 Reference

Almathami, H. K. Y., Win, K. T., & Vlahu-Gjorgievska, E. (2020). Barriers and Facilitators That Influence Telemedicine-Based, Real-Time, Online Consultation at Patients’ Homes: Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, (2).  https://doi.org/10.2196/16407 (Links to an external site.) .