Virtual Nursing:
From Concept to Impact

Leveraging a Powerful Workforce Multiplier

While virtual nursing has been a topic of significant attention over the past few years, many healthcare organizations have yet to implement programs, partly because the concept requires a rethinking of nursing assignments and the design of new clinical workflows that leverage remote nursing talent in an inpatient environment.

This webinar highlights an example of in-market success to help you envision how to move virtual nursing from a concept to an innovation that delivers positive clinical and workforce impact.

When:  Wed., May 10, 1-2 P.M. ET

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the nurse staffing dynamics that hospitals are addressing with virtual nursing.
• Identify key success factors in moving virtual nursing from concept to operational success.
• Gain insight into planning considerations and challenges associated with virtual nursing.

Why Virtual Nursing?

Forward-thinking hospitals are turning to virtual nursing programs to augment and support bedside staff and improve patient coverage and safety. By assigning tasks that don’t require hands-on care to remote clinicians with enabling technology, virtual nursing supports a multitude of patient care activities – including admission assessment, education, rounding, observation, discharge, and more. This frees up bedside nurses to focus on direct patient care and adds capacity for hospitals struggling to recruit staff.

Join the conversation as we explore this hybrid care model’s impact on the future of healthcare!

Panelists

Kris Chaisson, RN, BSN, MS, CCRN-K, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer

Central Maine Healthcare

 

As SVP and CNO, Kris Chaisson is responsible for nursing and patient care services at Central Maine Healthcare, including Central Maine Medical Center, Bridgton Hospital, Rumford Hospital, and the health system’s ambulatory care locations. In this role, she is responsible for the hospital’s nursing operations in acute care, emergency, and perioperative services, as well as for laboratory services and LifeFlight.

Wendy Deibert, EMBA, BSN, RN
Chief Nursing Officer

Caregility

 

As Chief Nursing Officer at Caregility, Wendy Deibert helps vendors, health systems, and clinicians across the U.S. and internationally integrate virtual care into their products, systems, and care delivery models. Wendy spent 34 years in nursing as a bedside critical care nurse, manager, senior consultant, operations manager, and executive.

Marcia Murphy, RN, AGACNP-BC, ANP-BC, CCRN-K, NE-BC
Vice President, Clinical Operations and Nursing

Hicuity Health

 

Marcia Murphy is VP of Clinical Operations and Nursing for Hicuity Health. She has more than 20 years of experience as a nurse and nurse practitioner in bedside, tele-ICU, and leadership roles and leads nursing and operations functions across nine national care operations centers, with responsibility for staffing, workflow definition and compliance, and operations management. She is also central to the company’s development of new service lines, including remote inpatient telemetry, virtual nursing, virtual sitter, and smart device monitoring services.

Teresa Rincon, PhD, RN
Telehealth Senior Consultant

Blue Cirrus Consulting

 

Teresa Rincon, Ph.D., RN, FCCM, is a Telehealth Senior Consultant at Blue Cirrus Consulting and Assistant Professor at the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Rincon is an expert in strategic planning, implementation, and analysis of system design of health services powered by technology.