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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. JAR Systems, which organized device charging on a mass scale, was founded in 2004 and served the education market first, but entered healthcare as it discovered many similar needs there. Or they may grab a tablet or cell phone.

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Epic, Zoom and mobile app help at-risk clinic volunteers deliver care from home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT. “In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades.

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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. They would stay a few days, get fluids, and get Phenergan around the clock for nausea, and narcotics for pain.

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Update: How empathy, education, communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell patient care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Florida, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. Click here to register for the event, which is offered in-person or remote. Visit [link] for tickets and information.

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The Stress of the Caregiver: The Most Over-Utilized, Unpaid Stakeholder in U.S. Healthcare

Health Populi

healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. We’ve long know that “the patient” has been an under-utilized resource in the U.S. Remote monitoring is utilized by 1 in 5 health care leaders.

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Consider: Aging in a Virtual World

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Let's take a longer look into this virtual world as it relates to care of older adults and consider such offerings as: Virtual caregiver nurse. Last month a startup launched with $35 million of funding to create a virtual caregiver nurse , targeting the labor shortage in private duty care. Virtual dementia tour. Virtual senior center.

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