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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

"It's an evolving landscape," says Mallozzi, noting the program is separate from Jefferson's 10-year-old telesitting program, which focuses solely on monitoring and safety care and has shown value in reducing patient falls. They're getting tired, and many are considering retirement," she says. "We

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

This could help Trinity and other health systems retain nurses who are considering leaving or retiring. Landstrom says the virtual nursing role is typically filled by veteran nurses, and that some nurses “can picture having a longer career” by working as a virtual nurse.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

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Minimizing Medical Burnout: Dr Sarah M I Cartwright

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

My father is a retired United States Army veteran with a career focus as a physician assistant, and my mother is an educator. Educating medical residents, graduate nursing students, and graduate health science students in leadership, informatics, quality and patient safety, and evidence-based scholarly practice was a natural fit.

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The Powerful Constraints on Medical Care in Catholic Hospitals Across America

Health Leaders | Nursing

Maria Rodriguez, an OB-GYN professor at Oregon Health & Science University, said that as a resident in the early 2000s at a Catholic hospital she was able to secure permission — what she calls a "pope note" — to sterilize some patients with conditions such as gestational diabetes.