Becker's Healthcare October 24, 2023
About four months into a virtual nursing pilot, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., is seeing positive feedback from patients.
OSF Healthcare is testing virtual nursing on three medical-surgical units at the medical center, covering about 75 patients. They’re exploring an approach where technology is installed on TVs in patient rooms to connect them with the virtual nurse, as well as a model where patients are given a tablet to use.
So far, virtual nurses have primarily handled admissions and discharges, and leaders are considering other tasks that could optimize support for bedside nurses.
“We’ve also looked at things like scribing patient assessments, doing regular rounding in the...
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