Becker's Healthcare May 14, 2024
Health systems are working out the kinks with virtual nursing, with some hospitals discovering the care model doesn’t work for all its hoped-for uses, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, for instance, discovered that having in-person nurses move the virtual nursing stations around cut into the time savings from the technology, according to the May 14 story.
“Everyone is trying to figure out how to use the technology to improve patient care and safety, and we’re all learning as we go,” Penn Chief Medical Information Officer Bill Hanson, MD, told the newspaper.
State inspectors cited Jefferson Abington (Pa.) Hospital in March for having the stations in behavioral health inpatient rooms, where the 8-foot-long power cords were a safety risk...
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