Criteria/Instructions for Assignment:

Students will investigate telehealth, discuss one specific emerging telehealth tool, and identify implications of how telehealth affects emerging telehealth nursing roles in this paper. Students will also use standard criteria to identify credible websites for a selected telehealth population and design a teaching plan to empower this population to evaluate health information on the Web.

As the work is being composed and organized, include the following in the scholarly paper:

Telehealth and Telenursing
Evaluating Health-Related Websites for Populations Telehealth Applications for a Population
For the preferred patient population, identify two credible health-related web sites that would be useful to ensuring this population’s effective health status
Explain why you would recommend these websites to this population (what specific aspects of the website).
What criteria did you use to evaluate websites?
Evaluate and report on the reading level of the information presented on each website.
Present a teaching plan to educate these patients about how to select a reputable and credible health website to manage their health
This is a scholarly paper of 6 to 8 pages (excluding title page and reference page(s) (s).
Students are expected to apply APA formatting to the entire document, including the title page/reference page(s), the level headings, and in-text citations/quotes.
Analyze the role of the telenurse in using and educating the patient about this specific telehealth tool