Telehealth Books: Training Manuals, Risk Management, Standards & Guidelines

Telehealth Books by Sheila Wheeler

The Pandemic has propelled Telehealth to center stage virtually overnight.  Now an essential aspect of care, Telehealth clinical training is also essential!  All training tools for a complete system are listed here.

Ms Wheeler’s newest training manual is  Telehealth: Essentials  for Expert Clinical Practice   revision of the 1993 training manual,  and includes a Standards Manual.  Telehealth Risk Management in Ambulatory and Pre-Hospital Settings.  Telehealth Guidelines is a review of Common Presenting Symptoms and may serve as a training tool for clinical staff.  It may also be used as a reference to any guidelines – electronic or paper.

Managers: Jump start your clinical training  for existing or new clinical staff!  The texts are unique, evidence-based and practical  — for a group or a new hire as a self-study.  Get staff up to speed quickly, and check that task off your list!  To date, no evidence has shown that, by themselves, electronic algorithms can safely replace the need for a complete system, including clinical training.  Training  materials are an essential component of a basic  telehealth system.

Recent  evidence shows that electronic algorithms may actually introduce new  error, and that clinicians are still making basic errors (Wheeler, 2015, 2019). Wheeler’s books form fundamental components of a complete telehealth  system designed to inform  technological safety and reduce errors evident in recent telehealth malpractice cases.

Most of Wheeler’s books are informed by actual malpractice case studies illustrating recurrent pitfalls —   inadequate assessment, communication, continuity and informed consent.  Wheeler has developed remedies to these root causes of error in Medicine (Joint Commission) in addition to human error.  Ms Wheeler’s goal was to develop telehealth products that were evidence-  and standards-based, as practical and as “real world” as is possible, to bolster patient safety and reduce negative outcomes.

Wheeler’s 1993 training manual — “Telephone Triage: Theory, Practice & Protocol Development” —  a classic in the field – set the stage for telehealth as a subspecialty.   Extrapolated from physician practice  research  (and  early malpractice cases), it is serves as  a unique historical overview  — a  “how to” and “go to” training manual for the embryonic fields telephone triage.

Wheeler’s 3-volume set of Telehealth Guidelines (Adult, School-Age or Infant-Child) is based upon expert nurse consensus,  research evidence and malpractice cases.  Wheeler’s expert witness work, combined with her research,  Joint Commission standards and regulations, all  serve to inform the design of Telehealth Guidelines. Her design and content are user-friendly, integrated, evidence- and risk management – based.

• Adult Telehealth Guidelines (Age 18 +)
• Pediatric Telehealth Guidelines (for Infant-Child) (Birth to 6 Yr)
• Pediatric Telehealth Guidelines (for School Age) (Six-18 Yr)
• Telehealth Guideline FAQ

All books are Available  on Amazon 

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