Africa’s Telenursing Today (and Tomorrow?)

Abstract — Although telenursing is well established in developed nations, developing nations have much less such activity. In Africa, and particularly South Africa, some effective pilot telenursing schemes have been introduced and are presented here. A further success has been in a wide variety of teleeducation programmes which target nurses. Usually telenursing equipment and procedures that have been successful in the well-resourced world are inappropriate for transfer, without modification, to developing countries. However African telenursing applications have used relevant prior knowledge in the field, wherever possible. These applications, with a likely future course and means of accomplishing it, will be outlined using what little quantitative data is available