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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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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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Smart Hospitals and the AI Tech Powering Them are Bringing Job Satisfaction Back to Nursing

Daily Nurse

From employee and patient satisfaction, a significant fundamental paradigm shift of how changes to the care delivery process and redesigning the care delivery process is accelerating our growth. HCAHPS increased dramatically for patient satisfaction. So we’re not running from room to room to room as we used to do before.’

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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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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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What Is Virtual Physical Therapy? How It Works and Benefits

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

A study published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed that telerehabilitation was similarly effective as traditional care for patients recovering from total knee arthroplasty. 6 The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) advocates for telehealth as an effective and viable method for delivering patient care.

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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.