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The results of data analysis showed that nursing staff\u2019s attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control toward telenursing correlated positively with behavioral intention to participate in telenursing. Decomposing the main concepts identified two significant predictive determinants that influence nurses\u2019 behavioral intentions: (a) facilitating conditions (\u03b2 = 0.394, t = 5.817, p = 0.000 &lt; 0.001) and (b) supervisor influence (\u03b2= 0.232, t = 3.431, p = 0.001 &lt; 0.01), which together explain 28.6% of the variance for behavioral intention. The results of this study indicated that support and encouragement from nursing supervisors are important factors affecting nurses\u2019 intention to practice telenursing. 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