This new, asynchronous course (8 modules, 4 live virtual sessions) will examine the essential role the virtual nurse plays in meeting patients’ wholistic health care needs. It provides practicing RNs and nursing students with the concepts essential to understanding and implementing virtual nursing care models in the acute care setting. In practice student learners will explore the foundations of the virtual care nursing care team and identify ways to build trusted relationships with their patients and teams in a virtual care setting.

What sets this virtual course apart is the inclusion of theoretical frameworks of care delivery models (Watson’s Caring Science, O’Rourke Role-Based Professional Practice, Benner) and practices to become a more effective communicator, manage conflict, and identify ways to work collaboratively within the hybrid interprofessional team (Schein, Gittell's Relational Coordination).

Read more about the implementation of virtual nursing at Trinity Health.

Take an exciting step in your career and open the door to new opportunities.

Objectives

Throughout this course, you will complete the following

• Examine the foundations of virtual nursing practice and its impact on health care delivery.
• Examine the regulatory environment of virtual nursing care, including patient privacy, rights, and wholistic needs Identify approaches and best practices for establishing a patient/nurse relationship, delivering virtual nursing care, and communication
• Examine potential care team partners, and how members of the team interact and coordinate care
• Examine the nature of care team dynamics and characteristics of effective teams
• Explore approaches for communication within the team, including identifying and addressing interpersonal conflict
• Identify and evaluate the benefits of virtual nursing care delivery models to patient care outcomes, patient experience, and improvement in the time the team members can spend with the patient and family, including a balanced dashboard

Who should take this Program?

• Registered Nurses in graduate programs wanting to learn about these emerging new care delivery models.
• Registered Nurses who want to obtain a credential and be marketable as a virtual nurse
  
• Registered Nurses in organizations that want to implement virtual nursing models
• Undergraduate nursing students who are curious about the future of nursing models.
• Graduate nursing students who are curious about the future of nursing models.

Program Completion:

There are two ways to register for this program.

1. Register for professional development. Receive a microcredential badge, certificate and CEUS upon completing requirements.

Program Materials:

• Humble Leadership, Schein and Schein, 2023
• Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding, Miller, 2018
• Course pack (provided through the course)
• Workbook (provided through the course)

Participants are expected to have access to a personal computer, updated software, and reliable internet access. Online learning sessions are conducted via ZOOM/Teams, and participants are strongly encouraged to use a web camera during all online learning sessions. Participants will have access to course materials and upload assignments via a learning management platform.

CEUS

Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Up to 35.75 contact hours Activity Number: 1567
For other professionals: Up to 35.75 professional hours of continuing education