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Our next cohort starts January 7, 2025.
Live sessions: 1/7, 1/21, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18.
What is the Virtual Nursing Academy?
The Virtual Nursing Academy is the premier, self-directed online program designed to educate and enable organizations to build, launch, and optimize their virtual care delivery models. The Virtual Nursing Academy focuses on developing a strategic approach, building a pilot plan, creating a governance structure, outcome tracking, and optimizing operations of a virtual care model.
The program is offered regularly and is perfect for nurse executives, informaticists, leaders, virtual nurses and other clinical team members who will be involved with a virtual care model.
On-Demand Focused Content
The on-demand library provides specially curated content to maximize learning. Participants set the cadence to work through the modules which provide a self-paced learning experience to fit demanding schedules and individual learning needs.
Live Checkpoint Sessions
Real-time, virtual, “drop-in” sessions facilitated by our expert faculty provide opportunities to learn and interact as well as ask questions about organizational challenges all while building a virtual nursing model.
Online Community
The online community and discussion forum provides ongoing dialogue and opportunities for networking with other organizations on the virtual care journey.
Industry Expert Webinars
Webinars with esteemed subject matter experts who provide visibility into current trends, what is on the horizon, key insights and best practices.
What You’ll Learn
- The Key to a Successful Model
Explore virtual care models, use cases and assess organizational readiness. - How to Move Quickly by Understanding your Technology Needs
Evaluate virtual nursing goals against current technology and conduct a technology gap analysis. - Tips to Optimize your Operations & Staffing
Conduct task analysis, identify optimal roles, determine virtual nurse training & competencies, and discuss centralized vs. de-centralized operations. - Top mistakes to avoid when developing your Virtual Nursing Pilot Launch Plan
Develop patient inclusion/exclusion criteria, evaluate the care team, identify launch plan, and discuss integration of clinical workflows. - A Proven Process for Care Model Transformation
Focus on change management, create an organizational narrative and create an organizational culture that adapts to a changing ecosystem. - Scaling a Virtual Nursing Model that Works for the Care Team
Identify optimal governance structure, outcome tracking and learn how to build a sustainable care model that can be scaled across the enterprise.
Tuition & Discounts
Program Tuition: $2499 per participant
Discounts: Hospitals and health systems are eligible to receive a 10% discount with a minimum of 10 registrants.
Continuing Education
This nursing continuing professional development activity will award a maximum of 33.75 contact hours for completion of all modules. CNE contact hours will be awarded upon completion of each module’s exercise. This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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A message from founder, Dr. Bonnie Clipper
What VNA Alumni Are Saying:
Natalie BaggioChief Nurse Executive & SVP Clinical OperationsCorewell Health South
The coach's expertise in operational strategy and nursing leadership has empowered our organizations to embrace innovation and improve patient care and workplace efficiency. The Virtual Nursing Academy provided our team with insights that strengthened our approach, reinforcing our commitment to effective and innovative care delivery.
Kara TomlinsonExecutive Director System Care Delivery & InnovationNebraska Medicine
My experience with the Virtual Nursing Academy has been instrumental in shaping our organization's virtual nurse strategy. The learning sessions, coaching sessions, and content have provided invaluable insights that have directly addressed the challenges we're tackling within our organization. The coaches played a pivotal role in guiding me through the decision-making process, prompting me to consider aspects I might have overlooked and encouraging me to reflect on the reasoning behind our choices.
