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Virtual Job Opportunities for Nurses: Careers Beyond the Bedside

Diversity Nursing

Insurance Nurse Consultant Insurance companies hire Nurses to review medical claims, assess treatment plans, and determine medical necessity. Remote utilization review Nurses and claims analysts ensure healthcare services are appropriately provided and documented, reducing fraud and improving efficiency.

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Keeping Your License Safe: Best Practices for Nurses When Passing Narcotics

Empowered Nurses

The Board of Nursing doesnt take mistakes with narcotics lightly. Miscounts, poor documentation, or even one careless shortcut can lead to accusations of diversion, patient harm, or negligence. If you pull a med and the patient refuses or its not needed, waste it within 30 minutes, with a witness and document why it was all wasted.

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Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Importance of Top-of-License Utilization

Daily Nurse

Visit the units, participate in shared governance meetings, and open direct lines of communication so you can best understand the day-to-day challenges nurses are facing and identify the biggest issues that need to be addressed. This includes ensuring that nurses practice to their full potential while managing costs responsibly.

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Virtual Nursing's Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

"The team is piloting care delivery in a more comprehensive fashion with remote virtual nurses," Klahn, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program for the second year, said in a recent e-mail exchange. He says the program's success is due to how well it has been received by both patients and nurses. "We

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Virtual Nursing Is Only Half the Equation for Offloading Nurse Burden

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse leaders should leverage both virtual nursing and multidisciplinary care teams to remove burdens from the bedside nurse, say these nurse leaders. Virtual nursing will continue to become the standard of care in health systems across the industry.

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Virtual Nursing’s Future? One Platform, Many Uses

Health Leaders | Nursing

The team is piloting care delivery in a more comprehensive fashion with remote virtual nurses, Klahn, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program for the second year, said in a recent e-mail exchange. He says the programs success is due to how well it has been received by both patients and nurses.

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New Initiative Streamlines Electronic Documentation to Reduce Burden on Nursing Staff

Consult QD

The project brought together a task force of experts in bedside nursing, quality, practice, accreditation and nursing informatics. Identifying roadblocks The team began by assessing how much time inpatient nurses were spending in the EHR: approximately 144 minutes during a 12-hour shift.