Utilizing Telenursing to Supplement Acute Care Nursing in an Era of Workforce Shortages: A Feasibility Pilot.
Comput Inform Nurs
; 42(2): 151-157, 2024 Feb 01.
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ABSTRACT
Hospitals are experiencing a nursing shortage crisis that is expected to worsen over the next decade. Acute care settings, which manage the care of very complex patients, need innovations that lessen nurses' workload burden while ensuring safe patient care and outcomes. Thus, a pilot study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a large-scale acute care telenurse program, where a hospital-employed telenurse would complete admission and discharge processes for hospitalized patients virtually. In 3 months, almost 9000 (67%) of patient admissions and discharges were conducted by an acute care telenurse, saving the bedside nurse an average of 45 minutes for each admission and discharge. Preliminary benefits to the program included more uninterrupted time with patients, more complete hospital admission and discharge documentation, and positive patient and nurse feedback about the program.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Telenfermagem
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Recursos Humanos de Enfermagem Hospitalar
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comput Inform Nurs
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article