Virtual Clinics as a way to give nursing consultations, A literature review

Abstract For the present, it becomes usual to make all necessary tasks online, as communicate with people and work, make all payments (rent, water, electricity etc), buying food, clothes, measuring pulse and rhythm of breathing by smart clock. People can do all these tasks be- ing at their own home. Virtual clinics is also one way to manage health issues being at home. This research aimed to gain knowledge of the online possibilities for nurses to consult pa- tients using ICT from existing researches. The purpose was to collect and offer more infor- mation to nurses and patients about the video consultation possibilities. The research was made to obtain answers for the following research question: what kind of experience nurses, patients and organisations can get from consultation online? The study was con- ducted as a literature reviewestablished on CINAHL and PubMed. The result was 9 articles, that were carefully researched. Eventually, three main fields were selected: nurses experi- ence of virtual clinics, patients' experience and health care organisations' experience. Taking into account the results, virtual clinics is a phenomenon, that requires more eco- nomical and clinical evidence-based researches. However, nowadays people are more and more interested in the sphere of online health care management because of time consump- tion, costs and distance as problems. Patients are open for changes, nurses and health care organizations are in doubt due to deficiency of knowledge