Tele-ICU nursing is a centralized or remotely based advanced critical care nurses networked with the bedside nurses and patients via state-of-the-art audiovisual communication and computer systems. It attaches significant importance on reduction of mortality and length of stay of ICU patients (Young et al. 2011). As an expansion growth of telemedicine approach to care Tele-ICU nursing has the potential to impact the ongoing transformation of nursing practice and notably contribute to care (Williams Hubbard Daye & Barden 2012). There are two main organizations (International Council of Nurses Telenursing Network and International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth [ISfTeH] ) supporting the development of tele-nurses in use of telehealth technologies.
Tele-ICU nursing was firstly established in America owing to meet the shortage of intensivists and nurses in critical care. It seems that Tele ICU is the promising pathway (Kumar Merchant & Reynolds 2013) building upon broader tele-health initiatives (Liu et al 2006).
