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Virtual Nursing as a Practice Model Innovation

Thursday June 1, 2023
6 pm - 7 pm

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Virtual acute care nursing (VACN) is a practice model innovation. Practice models with standardized nurse-to-patient ratios are a concept of the past. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing profession was stressed in meeting staffing needs due to the nursing shortage (Cloyd & Thompson, 2020). Nursing tasks such as assessments, documentation, admissions, discharges, and patient education, in some capacity, can be completed virtually from organizational hubs or alternate locations using bidirectional audiovisual technology (Cloyd & Thompson, 2020). This innovation model improves both patient health through direct contact at the touch of a button and nurse health by alleviating the burden of the bedside nurse who is unable to complete all the assigned and unpredictable tasks that occur in a shift. Redesigning workflow through use of a VACN is a necessary practice model evolution.

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