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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Health systems across the country are launching telemedicine programs aimed at improving the nurse's workload, but both value and sustainability are hard to pin down. Virtual nursing is all the rage these days, with health systems across the country launching telemedicine-based programs aimed at helping their beleaguered nurses.

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How Customer-Centric is Your Practice, Business, or Organization?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Accessibility: As much as possible, ensure patients have easy access to care by providing flexible scheduling, online booking, and telemedicine options where appropriate. Patient feedback: Ask for feedback from patients about their experiences in your office and use it to make things better.

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Intermountain Sees Unexpected Benefits in Virtual Nursing Pilot

Health Leaders | Nursing

Pillar: Innovation Image: Tags: care continuum care coordination digital health innovation inpatient nurses nursing patient experience patient satisfaction strategy technology telemedicine Secondary Pillars: HLM Communities CNO Article Type: Analysis Published Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 Hide sidebars: Render small main image:

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Remote Nursing: Find Work-From-Home Jobs That Work for You

Nurse.com

From telemedicine to teaching, nurses are finding that they don’t have to step inside a hospital or clinic to help patients. Telemedicine jobs No doubt, telemedicine certainly opened the door to more remote nursing jobs. Demand for telemedicine services stems from many converging factors.

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First Randomized Trial Launched to Study Teleneuropsychology for Parkinson’s Disease

Consult QD

The vast majority of these studies, unlike ours, have significant limitations, such as requiring involvement of a caregiver or that patients go to a telemedicine studio.” Epidemiologic data indicate that 50% of patients develop dementia within 10 years of a PD diagnosis, making neuropsychological testing critical for this population.

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Reduce unnecessary transfers from clinics to EDs

American Nurse

At the University of Alabama (UAB) Hospital, provider and patient complaints about this practice resulted in the formation of a quality improvement (QI) project team to assess the issue and find a solution that provides patients with timely access to appropriate care at an acceptable cost and doesn’t add unnecessary volume to the ED.

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Managing Change in Healthcare: 5 Resilience Skills for Keeping Your Organization Agile

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

One key factor in offering patients an effective telehealth experience is physicians having all the necessary patient information at their fingertips. A siloed approach to patient care, where each practitioner treats in isolation, can lead to communication failure during patient handoffs—a leading cause of serious medical error.