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Geisinger Moves Towards Virtual Nursing in Post-Acute Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

New year, new goals In 2024, Geisinger had several goals for virtual nursing: to open up the workforce by creating a new role to consider, to improve care quality, and to boost nurse and patient engagement and experience.

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Nursing Leadership in the First State

American Nurse

Nurse Leadership Initiatives Nurse-Led Care Models Nurse leaders in Delaware have championed the implementation of innovative care models, such as nurse-managed health centers and advanced practice nurse-led clinics. Costs Saved by Visiting a Nurse-Led Primary Care Facility Comparison of Primary Care Models. 48(2) 13-26.

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Virtual Nursing Shifts its Focus to the Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

Roughly one year ago, on April 1, 2024, Sharp launched its first virtual nursing program in two selected units, focusing primarily on handling admissions from the Emergency Department and discharges. She says nurses like the format because it gives them an opportunity to stay in the loop and learn more about their patients.

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Virtual Nursing's Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

"This pilot includes rotating bedside nurses through a local virtual operations center and supporting bedside nurses' care for their patients by increased remote documentation assistance, multi-disciplinary rounds participation and virtual consenting." Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist.

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Virtual Nursing’s Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

This pilot includes rotating bedside nurses through a local virtual operations center and supporting bedside nurses care for their patients by increased remote documentation assistance, multi-disciplinary rounds participation and virtual consenting. As noted in a 2024 story on the program , Houston Methodist is in it for the long run.

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Tracking Key Metrics to Virtual Nursing Success

Health Leaders | Nursing

Patient satisfaction. With the industry’s gradual shift to value-based care, health systems are placing more emphasis on patient experience—and a virtual nursing program can have a profound impact on how a patient feels about the care they receive.