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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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HIMSSCast: The nursing shortage – how health IT helps and harms

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most healthcare professionals are well aware of the nurse shortage that America faces today. In this HIMSSCast podcast, we'll be digging into this crisis and the role played, both good and bad, by healthcare information technology. Talking points: What's at the heart of the nurse shortage today?

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ServiceNow App Engine Studio: Nurse Mentorship at Inova Health System

Optimum Healthcare IT

Continue reading ServiceNow App Engine Studio: Nurse Mentorship at Inova Health System at Optimum Healthcare IT. Read Time: < 1 min We collaborated with ServiceNow and Epic to integrate Clinician Connect into McLeod Health's Epic deployment!

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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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Nurses! ? Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 36

Healthcare IT Today

For the 36th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Nurses! This month is Nurses month and so we thought what better way to celebrate nurses than to make it the topic of our show. Nurses and Trust in Healthcare. Technology and Nurse Burnout. Scheduling and Nurses .

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Telehealth can increase nurse workloads, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Featured Health IT Job: Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California.

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