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Next in Virtual Nursing: UnityPoint Health's Evolution Toward In-Room Technology

Health Leaders | Nursing

In the past year, Johnson explained that the biggest evolution is the shift from a decentralized, market-based model to a centralized leadership structure, with standardized workflows. As for what comes next, Johnson said there might be some opportunities for integration into care programs that extend beyond the hospital. "[We

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Next in Virtual Nursing: UnityPoint Health’s Evolution Toward In-Room Technology

Health Leaders | Nursing

In the past year, Johnson explained that the biggest evolution is the shift from a decentralized, market-based model to a centralized leadership structure, with standardized workflows. As for what comes next, Johnson said there might be some opportunities for integration into care programs that extend beyond the hospital. "[We

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Virtual Nursing Looks at Innovation Through the Eyes of the Nurse

Health Leaders | Nursing

That new nursing workflow, Mastermind participants said, should be part of a much larger reinvention of the care team.

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Can Virtual Nursing Help Hospitals Address Workforce Challenges?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Indeed, inpatient telemedicine programs were popular during the pandemic, as health systems sought to separate infected patient populations from doctors and nurses to curtail the spread of the virus. Telemedicine programs aren't exactly inexpensive, and CEOs and CFOs need to see the hard benefits to a new program before signing off.

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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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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

Landstrom says leadership did a lot of research prior to launching the program and found that 40% of the tasks done by nurses on the floor can be done by someone other than an RN. Teaming a nurse with an LPN/CNA, she says, enables the nurse to work at the top of his or her license.

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Houston Methodist is Playing the Long Game With Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Alongside addressing admission and discharge times, key elements of a patient’s length of stay, they’re looking at care coordination and management and documentation compliance. Analytics and reporting are part of the process, Klahn says, because “you’ve got to demonstrate ROI early on.”