Becker's Healthcare June 23, 2023
To deal with nursing shortages, Renton, Wash.-based Providence had to “blow up” the old model of hospital care, the health system’s chief nursing officer told Becker’s.
Providence recently brought virtual nursing to 10 sites across nine hospitals in four states. With the so-called Co-Caring model, the virtual nurses, working from home, support bedside nurses and technicians by helping with administrative tasks like admissions, discharges, preprocedural checklists, and medication reconciliation.
“What was very clear to us at the onset is that it doesn’t matter how good we are at recruiting nurses. It doesn’t matter how good we are at retaining nurses. We are never going to have enough if we keep on doing things the way we do them today,” Syl...
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