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Nursing and IT

Nurses innovate with technology that reduces burnout and improves care

Nurses are the tireless heroes of healthcare, unsung and under-resourced. They believe in the work they do and work every day to do more with less. Thankfully, new technologies and workforce strategies are emerging to help nurses better care for patients they serve and help reduce the daily burden that takes their attention away from care delivery.

In this special section, we focus on how nurses are making use of technology – AI and automation, EHR optimization, decision support, telehealth and remote monitoring – to manage the challenges of staffing shortages, avoid burnout and advance their approaches to patient care.

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Lisbeth Votruba, RN, of AvaSure on virtual nursing
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A nurse expert discusses the results of a new survey from AvaSure showing that, while virtual...
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A virtual nursing success story emerges from a large New York health system, and examples of the...
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Morgan L. Waller, RN, of Children's Mercy Kansas City on telemedicine
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The number of telehealth services provided by Children's Mercy Kansas City is astounding. And...
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Claire Beck of St. Luke's Health System on nursing
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The technology aligns closely with the health system's perinatal safety initiatives and focuses...
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Hadassah Backman, CEO of Guardoc
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Hadassah Backman, RN, is a nurse CEO who says artificial intelligence could do a lot to help RNs...
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Betty Jo Rocchio, Mercy's SVP and chief nurse executive
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There is pain and reward when designing artificial intelligence that improves frontline staff...
By Andrea Fox |
Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health
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Healthcare leaders should address the stress of AI and share roadmaps to gain buy-in from nurses,...
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Stephen A. Ferrara, DNP, of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners on nursing informatics
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American Association of Nurse Practitioners president Stephen A. Ferrara says technology is...
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Summer Blackerby, RN, of CoxHealth Hospital on nursing informatics
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That's the advice of CoxHealth Chief Nursing Information Officer Summer Blackerby, RN, who...
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Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, of Kontakt.io on workplace violence
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Artificial intelligence tools, combined with Internet of Things and RTLS, can help hospitals and...
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Anna E. Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, of Penn Medicine on nursing IT
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As AI continues to evolve, the role of nursing informaticists in steering its integration into...
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Daniel O'Connor, RN, of HCTec on caregiver CIOs
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Daniel O'Connor, RN, a former chief information officer, discusses the fundamental value of...
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Kathleen McGrow at Microsoft_Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
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Kathleen McGrow, the tech giant’s chief nursing information officer, highlights the HIMSS...
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NP in a video meeting
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For nurse practitioners and physician assistants in states with restrictive practice rules, it...
By Andrea Fox |
patients in ER
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Nurse groups are focused on fixing what they say are untenable nurse-to-patient ratios. As...
By Andrea Fox |
Nurse huddle with tablet
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The California Nurses Association recently organized a San Francisco protest aimed at Kaiser...
By Andrea Fox |
Sentara Health's Kelsey Jones, RN, on nursing technology
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The data-driven Patient Acuity Nursing Tool, or PANT, maximizes patient and nursing outcomes, and...
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The collaboration aims to enhance patient care by streamlining data reporting, saving time for...
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Betty Jo Rocchio of Mercy on nursing
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Before deploying the technology, staff was 67% core staff, 8% flexible staff and 25% agency staff...
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Kelly Vaughn of Nebraska Medicine on AI
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The accomplishment puts the health system in a better position to attract and retain the talent...
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Jung In Park of University of California Irvine School of Nursing on AI
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Trained on vast datasets, machine learning applications can spot trends and predict patient...
By Bill Siwicki |
Whende Carroll at HIMSS_Palm trees and skyscrapers in Orlando Photo by Gabriele Maltinti/iStock/Getty Images Plus
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Whende Carroll, clinical informatics advisor, HIMSS, offers a preview of upcoming HIMSS24 sessions...
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Carly Barnes of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney on generative AI
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The healthcare workforce should prepare for a "once-in-a-century revolution," a labor law...
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Atrium Health and falls prevention
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"With improved monitoring and measurement capabilities, we have been better equipped to...
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St. Luke’s and telemedicine
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The nursing-oriented remote patient monitoring approach also prevents more than 500 falls each...
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Joseph M. Cook and Julie Firman of Baptist Health
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"From a patient safety perspective, this was a very important milestone for us to achieve to...
By Bill Siwicki |
University of Rochester Nursing students use VR headsets to train and prep for exams.
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Tech-enabled experiential learning is elevating nursing curriculums to engage more students...
By Andrea Fox |
Nurses huddled together look at electronic health records on a tablet.
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Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's...
By Andrea Fox |
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The initiative also provides savings in the form of signing bonuses the hospital would have had to...
By Bill Siwicki |
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By reducing the number of flowsheets and their content, they've made documentation more than 10...
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Medical video call on tablet
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A shortage of skilled nursing is disrupting care delivery nationwide. The workforce challenge is...
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Jung In Park of the University of California Irvine School of Nursing
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Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a...
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Houston Methodist buildings
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Further, when using this nurse-facilitated technology in patients’ homes, the percentages of...
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Toby Eadelman of AvaSure discussing virtual nursing
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Some recent staffing survey results should be scary to health system leaders. A virtual nursing...
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Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure
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Virtual nursing and virtual sitting can mitigate labor-related challenges in the acute care setting...
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Joseph Cook and Julie Firman of Baptist Health discussing virtual nursing
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Some wins so far? Huge reductions in patient falls and increases in HCAHPS patient satisfaction...
By Bill Siwicki |
Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System
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Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, discuss how...
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Wendy Deibert, RN, of Caregility
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One of the nurse executives who helped create the world's first virtual hospital offers a deep...
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Dr. Shayan Vyas hospitals Teladoc Health telehealth
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The turnover rate for nurses stands at 27%. Can telemedicine save the day?
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April Kapu, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, digs into the...
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A person in PPE
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The association says the document, released during National Nurses Week, can act as a tool to...
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Mayo Clinic nursing informatics administrator Lisa Stephenson and Kate Milliken
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Mayo Clinic nursing informatics administrator Lisa Stephenson discusses the ways nursing helped...
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Shawn Sefton RN nursing Hospital IQ
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Does that stat catch your attention? Good. Shawn Sefton, RN, talks about the results of a new...
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