telenursing

English

WOTD – 9 April 2021

Etymology

Telenursing equipment at Health Sciences North/Horizon Santé-Nord in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

From tele- (prefix meaning ‘over a distance’) +‎ nursing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌnɜːsɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌnɝsɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧nurs‧ing

Noun

telenursing (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The use of telecommunication technology to provide nursing services, including consulting with patients and receiving health data from them.

Hypernyms

• telemedicine

Related terms

• teleconsult
• teleconsultation
• telediagnose
• telediagnosis
• telediagnostic
• telediagnostics
• teledoctor
• telehealth
• telehealthcare
• telemedicine
• telemonitor
• telenurse
• teletriage

 

Translations

use of telecommunication technology to provide nursing services

• Arabic: التمريض عن بعد
• German: Telepflege f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dûrperistarî f, peristariya ji dûr f

• Persian: پرستاری از راه دور
• Russian: дистанционный патронаж m (distancionnyj patronaž)
• Spanish: teleenfermería f

Further reading

• telenursing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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