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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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Intelligent Communication: The Key to Retaining Nursing Staff

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jim Larrison, Co-Founder & CCO at Firstup Three years after the start of the pandemic, nurses are beyond burnt out. Despite being hailed as “healthcare heroes,” nurses feel overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. According to a recent survey by Jarrard Inc., In the same Jarrad, Inc.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? The following is what they had to share with us.

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HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda to Improve the Nurse Experience

Healthcare IT Today

In the following interview with Sammie Mosier, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, HCA Healthcare, we dive into HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda aimed at improving the nurse experience. What is HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda? The Cohesive Nursing Agenda is a […].

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Nurse-Physician Collaboration: Harnessing the Power of Health IT to Improve Patient Outcomes

Mobile Health Matters

As health systems focused on ensuring doctors had access to state-of-the-art health IT to monitor their patients when they couldn’t be at the bedside, the quality of tools and pace of adoption for nursing solutions did not keep up. Unfortunately, those solutions were not always conducive to nurses’ workflow.

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Rising Nursing Shortages are Causing a Nationwide Healthcare Crisis – How Using a Well-Designed Mobile Employment App Can Help

Healthcare IT Today

With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, o ne thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. By 2030, one million nurses are expected to retire. With nursing shortages looming, rapid onboarding has become a major focus for the healthcare industry to help hire and retain nurses.

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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

This week marks National Nurses Week in the U.S., both a celebration of the profession and an opportunity to educate the public about the role nurses play in healthcare and their communities. Nurses Driving Change. Nurses’ primary focus is on the quality of care, comfort and safety of their patients.

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