Nurses Leading the Transformation of Patient Care Through Telehealth

J Nurs Adm. 2015 Dec;45(12):650-6. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000279.

Abstract

The essential role of nurses in leading, developing, and improving Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) telehealth services and programs was a key reason the organization was selected to receive the American Nurses Credentialing Center 2013 Magnet® Prize. This article describes the application of telehealth as a nurse-led technology. The innovations within LVHN telehealth services are presented as well as essential success factors of design, implementation, and evaluation.

MeSH terms

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Critical Care Nursing / methods
  • Critical Care Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Critical Care Nursing / trends
  • Humans
  • Leadership
  • Medicaid / economics
  • Medicaid / standards
  • Medicare / economics
  • Medicare / standards
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / nursing*
  • Nurse's Role
  • Organizational Case Studies
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / economics
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Satisfaction*
  • Pennsylvania
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms / standards
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms / trends
  • Telemedicine / organization & administration*
  • United States
  • Workforce