Nursing and IT
The healthcare workforce should prepare for a "once-in-a-century revolution," a labor law expert says, with artificial intelligence poised to directly impact the way nurses and other healthcare professionals do their jobs.
"With improved monitoring and measurement capabilities, we have been better equipped to understand the dynamics of falls, identify trends and implement targeted interventions," says a nursing leader at the North Carolina health system.
The nursing-oriented remote patient monitoring approach also prevents more than 500 falls each month at the Minnesota health system. And it's improved staffing ratios – sometimes dramatically, depending on patient acuity.
"From a patient safety perspective, this was a very important milestone for us to achieve to ensure that we are providing the highest level of care to one of our most vulnerable patient populations," the health system's chief nurse executive says.
Tech-enabled experiential learning is elevating nursing curriculums to engage more students – and produce more graduates who say they're ready to hit the ground running in a digital health environment.
Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.