Telecommunication technologies in high-tech homecare

The future of critical care nursing will be dependent upon the subspecialty's ability to prepare the high-tech homecare nurse for practice in the next millennium. Client self-management of highly complex interventional therapies will be enabled by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will facilitate the transitioning of critical care nursing to the home setting. Rapidly evolving technologic capabilities will be managed by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will assist in the development of a seamless health care delivery system, where quality of care is maintained in settings beyond the traditional boundaries of the intensive care unit.