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Virtual Nursing Will Be Nonnegotiable: Here's How CNOs Can Prepare

Health Leaders | Nursing

During a time when nursing shortages are growing, and patient acuity is greater, it's essential that unnecessary tasks and high workload burdens be removed from nurses so they can spend their time caring for patients. Other metrics can include nurse engagement, patient experience, and care quality metrics.

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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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Can Virtual Nursing Can Solve the Staffing Crisis?

Scrubs

A record number of nurses have retired since the COVID-19 pandemic and this approach could bring them back into the fold. Additionally, we are tracking how these changes in skill mix may impact caregiver experience, patient experience, the cost of care delivery, and other nursing sensitive quality indicators.”

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Suzette Porter

Minority Nurse

Then COVID hit in 2020, and my manager decided she would retire. So it was one unit with 41 patients, and now we are split in two. John decided to retire, she always talked to me about succession planning, and she would always pull me into things like leadership things that sometimes I feel uncomfortable. So on 4 St.

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The Call for Greater Autonomy in Nursing

Nurse.com

The nurses who received frequent patient experience reports and experienced quality improvement efforts as integrated into patient care did not report feeling burned out. This deficit is estimated to be over 130,000 physicians by the year 2030 , affecting both primary care and specialty areas.

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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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The Healing Power of Animals: Reducing Stress in Patients and Nursing Students

Amercan Journal of Nursing

I currently have three registered rabbits—along with one retired old lady rabbit and two new babies that will hopefully become the next generation of therapy rabbits. Even children and others who are afraid of dogs tend to be comfortable with them. They are litter box trained, live in my house, and have free time for roaming every day.