This technology allows you to visit and treat a greater number of patients. Patients can reach a medical staff faster without having to wait on the phone or go to the emergency room, and for example a patient with CHF moves up the ladder earning 5 within a day, the telemedicine nurse receives the data and calls the patient, according assessment the nurse decides this patient needs to go to the emergency room or maybe she just needs to call the doctor and increase the Lasix. Finally, equipment used with telemedicine allows for acute patient monitoring. “Peripheral devices placed in patients' homes such as thermometers, sphygmomanometers and stethoscopes are connected to telemedicine equipment so that telenurses can monitor clinical signs remotely.” (Schlachta, Elfrink, & Deickman, 2008). Now that I know this information, I'm starting to think that telenursing might be a possible future specialty for nurses, but as far as the patient is concerned, this technology is for