Medscape October 5, 2023
More than a year into the pandemic, as new COVID variants surged in the United States, Nicole McQueen sought a change from her high-stress career in the operating room. After 14 years as a registered nurse in the OR, she switched to virtual nursing. Three years later, she has no regrets. “I wanted to reinvigorate my skills. It piqued my curiosity, and it was something new,” she said. “It was also physically less demanding.”
These days, McQueen handles admissions and patient discharges from her Indiana home for 8 to 10 nursing units in three hospitals in Maine. They are time-consuming tasks for bedside nurses that can easily be handled off site, McQueen told Medscape Medical News. “I am able to...
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