WEBINAR | Enabling Nurse-led Specialized Virtual Care in the Home at Stanford Health Care

Gretchen Brown, MSN, RN, ACNIO, Stanford Health Care, Samuel Thomas, MD, MS, CMO, PocketRN, and Mirini Kim, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, Director of Nursing, PocketRN. In January 2021, Stanford Health Care Nursing Administration and the Stanford Medicine Catalyst team partnered with PocketRN, a virtual nursing platform, to enable Stanford nurses who were working part time or unable to work in-person to provide nurse-led specialized virtual care in the home. Through an IRB-approved clinical study in the Stanford Advanced Wound Care Clinic and the Stanford Vascular Clinic, this collaboration aimed to mobilize and improve the ability for a pool of internal Stanford nurses to work at the top of their license; to improve retention of retiring, part-time, and family or medical leave nurses; to reduce the workload of in-person nurses; and to provide increased access to high quality specialty-matched care for Stanford patients and their informal caregivers. In this presentation we will discuss system-level value creation through nurse-led virtual care delivery, digital health implementation strategies to integrate virtual care into existing clinical workflows, and how to address nurse burnout and retention challenges – relevant to the national nurse staffing crisis.