mHealth Intelligence January 11, 2024
Leaders from three healthcare organizations detail their virtual nursing efforts, how these are impacting their nurses, and the challenges to implementation.
The COVID-19 pandemic hit an already beleaguered nursing workforce hard, driving stress, burnout, and resignations among nurses to record highs. The urgent need to address nurse workflow issues and better support them has sparked fresh interest in the virtual nursing model among healthcare provider organizations.
Though the model itself is not new — the first recorded use of ‘telenursing’ was in 1974 — its popularity grew during and after the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). According to data from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the United States nursing workforce lost 100,000 registered nurses during the pandemic...