Support for Frontline Staff in Rural Aged Care: Making Telehealth a Successful Model

Alison Craswell; Karen Watson

doi:10.3233/SHTI251569

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Support for Frontline Staff in Rural Aged Care: Making Telehealth a Successful Model

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Support for Frontline Staff in Rural Aged Care: Making Telehealth a Successful Model

Alison Craswell and Karen Watson

Health. Innovation. Community: Engage. Disrupt. Transform - Papers from the 29th Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC2025) Conference , Vol.333, pp.20-23

Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference, 29th (Melbourne, Australia, 18-Aug-2025–20-Aug-2025)

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics , 333, IOS Press

2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251569

PMID: 41235486

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Abstract

nurse practitioner

model of care

hybrid model of clinical support

residential aged care

older adults

telehealth

implementation science

Nurse practitioners have the clinical capability to support healthcare delivery services in geographically isolated communities and readily demonstrate a cost-effective, safe and competent alternate model of primary care for older adults. Despite carefully evaluating the pre-implementation context, recruitment challenges resulted in the ability for only one nurse practitioner to provide a telehealth support model. Guard rails to practise in the setting, necessary within the current profile of rural aged care and government policy flux, resulted in poor engagement and use of the provided advanced practice support. 'Grow your own' strategies are recommended as one potential solution.

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Title: Support for Frontline Staff in Rural Aged Care: Making Telehealth a Successful Model
Authors: Alison Craswell (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
Karen Watson - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
Contributors: Jen Bichel-Findlay (Editor) - University of Technology Sydney
Publication details: Health. Innovation. Community: Engage. Disrupt. Transform - Papers from the 29th Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC2025) Conference , Vol.333, pp.20-23
Conference details: Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Health Innovation Community (HIC) Conference, 29th (Melbourne, Australia, 18-Aug-2025–20-Aug-2025)
Series: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics ; 333
Publisher: IOS Press
Date published: 2025
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI251569; 10.3233/SHTI333
ISSN: 1879-8365
PMID: 41235486
Copyright note: © 2025 The Authors. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Organisation Unit: Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991184206202621
Output Type: Conference paper

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