Becker's Healthcare February 28, 2025
Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital has saved 2,000 hours for bedside nurses after rolling out virtual nursing to five units recently.
In an era of healthcare workforce shortages, the virtual nurses have done almost 11,000 tasks, including about 3,200 discharges, 2,200 admissions and 4,700 roundings, and monitored patients for 63,000 hours.
“When you think about all the documentation and communication that nurses have to do while they’re not taking care of patients, the virtual nurse can do a lot of that and free the bedside nurse up to do treatments and education and medication administration,” Akron Children’s Chief Nursing Officer Chris Young, DNP, RN, told Becker’s.
Akron Children’s piloted the technology from virtual nursing company Care.ai on one unit from December...
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