From easing discharge and enhancing safety to scaling Hospital at Home and solving workforce gaps, HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind participants are expanding the horizons of virtual nursing.
Today’s virtual nursing strategy, as defined by participants in the 2025 HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, sponsored by Microsoft, is to expand platforms to create multiple points of value. Why? Well virtual nursing has quickly grown from a tightly scoped experiment into an enterprise-wide movement.
This time around in the program, the participants have several new goals, and a few new frustrations. The name of the game now is expansion – whether that be into other areas in the health system, or sending the technology home with patients in hospital at home programs.
Here are some of the more popular expansions to the virtual nursing strategy, as laid out in our 2025 Virtual Nursing Mastermind report.
The HealthLeaders Mastermind series is an exclusive series of calls and events with healthcare executives. This Virtual Nursing Mastermind series features ideas, solutions, and insights on excelling your virtual nursing program.
To inquire about participating in an upcoming Mastermind series or attending a HealthLeaders Exchange event, email us at exchange@healthleadersmedia.com.
G Hatfield is the CNO editor for HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Virtual nursing platforms can be used to bring family and friends into a virtual visit between the patient and doctor, enabling the doctor to explain care management tasks and better prepare everyone for when the patient goes home.
A virtual nurse can spot something that the floor nurse might be overlooking or missing, from a device that needs calibrating to a patient showing signs of combativeness or distress.
Having a virtual nurse on hand to explain discharge instructions, care directions and medications, as well as answering any questions a patient or family member may have, goes a long way towards ensuring that the patient follows doctor’s orders at home and doesn’t end up being rehospitalized.