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Nurse Input is Crucial to Jefferson Health’s Virtual Nursing Program

Health Leaders | Nursing

The health system is getting feedback from the front lines to make sure its Virtual Nursing program will meet expectations and become a permanent part of patient care Virtual nursing programs require careful planning. And no one knows that better than the nurses.

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UnityPoint Health's 4 Future Plans for Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

"Our goals with it initially, and I would say they have morphed a bit over time," Brown said, "[were] really to redesign the work so that we could remove some work from our nurses that were at the bedside to try to make their experience while they were at work better."

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Can Virtual Nursing Can Solve the Staffing Crisis?

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. “Bidirectional audio and video technology was installed and configured for each of the patient rooms and interfaced with the electronic health record to enable the nurse to seamlessly video conference with the patient,” said Sylvain Trepanier, RN, chief nursing officer at health system Providence.

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Leadership style matters

American Nurse

This type of leader co-creates a positive work environment where nurses like to practice and patients experience excellent care. Post-pandemic, many nurses have voiced their desire for relational leaders and others have spoken with their feet or demonstrated “quiet quitting.”

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

So MUSC pivoted, creating a platform designed not only to remotely monitor patients in their rooms but help with administrative tasks, from charting in the EMR to onboarding and discharges. That program will debut soon in four of the health system's rural hospitals, where the nursing ranks are especially strained.

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Top 5 Biggest Nursing Challenges in 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

Virtual care in nursing can help with data collection, patient admission and discharge, patient education, and family education. There’s many things that a virtual nurse can assist a bedside nurse to complete and do,” she says, “and [they] actually feel like they have more time to spend with the patient.”

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A staff nurse’s AI wish list

American Nurse

How about the staff nurses? Sure, bedside nurses use cutting edge technology in patient care, but there has been a lag in innovations that will make the day-to-day work of staff nurses easier or more efficient. How about sitting with a patient and having an intelligent, non-saccharine conversation?