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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. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist. Photo courtesy Houston Methodist.

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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. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist. Photo courtesy Houston Methodist.

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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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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients. See also: Can Virtual Nursing Help Hospitals Address Workforce Challenges?

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Navigating the Shift to Value-Based Care: Investing in the Patient Experience

Relias

The solution: Value-based care Unlike the traditional model of collecting fees for services, where healthcare providers earn based on the volume of services rendered, a value-based care model emphasizes the quality of care delivered and its impact on patient outcomes, cost, access to certain services, and the patient experience.

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Using AI to Address Nursing’s Biggest Pain Points

Health Leaders | Nursing

McManus said San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare wants to “empower the nursing workforce with mobile-based technology so that they can document more at ease on the fly.” “The Rocchio said Mercy targeted that pain point with an AI tool, aiming to improve an often confusing process that accounts for roughly 80% of documentation errors.