Nursing and IT
The health system's use of telemedicine has saved more than 3,000 hours of bedside nurse time, supported by more than 16,000 virtual nursing sessions. The CNIO discusses this and other successes.
Nadin Knippschild, DNP, RN, says she must responsibly control advanced technologies while maintaining unwavering cybersecurity – especially as more data and services are migrated to the cloud.
PocketRN reduced documentation time by 60% and assessment meetings by 15 minutes per visit. Further, it saves the nursing team 33 hours daily – lowering administrative overhead by about $27,720 each month.
The health system's chief nursing officer offers a close look at the successful rollout of virtual nursing. Among other things, the team redesign and technology gave 18,000 hours back to floor nurses in year one – from 59,000 virtual sessions.
The 24-state health system's integrated care model has achieved a 43% reduction in first-year RN voluntary turnover, a 21% decrease in emergency department hold hours and many other wins. Its virtual nursing transformation chief offers details.
Northwell Health's population health informatics nurse leader offers some key advice for bringing patient-generated health data into the clinical decision-making process.
Too often, message sending processes are disjointed, says one nursing IT leader – calling for a more personalized approach to comms, both "content and channel wise."
A nurse leader from the Mayo Clinic previews her HIMSS26 session, where she'll show how nurses must be co-creators of systems, not just end users.
Lacey Jensen, RN, the health system's director of informatics education, previews a HIMSS26 session where she'll focus on the blended learning approach with computer adaptive tools to enhance efficiency and boost knowledge.
The achievement was made by uncovering and activating capacity that had always been there: Staff just couldn't see it until they implemented consistent processes and system-wide analytics.