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Virtual Nursing Academy™
Creating a New Standard of Care.
Reduce nurse turnover, improve patient outcomes
and increase care efficiency through a
virtual nursing care model.
Launch a virtual care model faster and avoid costly missteps
with the Virtual Nursing Academy!
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 8-weeks in length and is offered regularly. It is perfect for nurse executives, informaticists, leaders, virtual nurses and other clinical team members who will be involved with a virtual care model.
Participants will earn up to 33.75 CEs.
On-Demand Focused Content
Online Community
Live Check-in Sessions
Industry Expert Webinars
The on-demand library provides specially curated content to maximize learning. The asynchronous approach provides a self-paced learning experience to fit demanding schedules.
The online community and discussion forum provides ongoing dialogue and opportunities for networking with other organizations on the virtual care journey.
Real-time, virtual, "drop-in" sessions facilitated by our expert faculty provide opportunities to learn and interact, focusing on organizational challenges and building your virtual nursing model.
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
Tuition
Program Tuition: $2499 per participant
Discounts: Hospitals and health systems are eligible to receive a 10% discount with a minimum of 10 registrants*.
*0ffers cannot be combined for higher discounts.
Add on Private Coaching: $1500 for 2 one-hour sessions
Do you need to build and launch your virtual model quickly? Address your organization’s unique challenges with private group coaching sessions. These sessions are conducted by our experienced faculty who offer both expert guidance and valuable insights to assist your organization and are open to members of your team that may not be participating in the Virtual Nursing Academy.
Together, we can help your organization to overcome challenges and attain forward progress. Our virtual nursing faculty has over 50 collective years of virtual nursing and care model transformation expertise and have seen first-hand what works and what is a distraction to your program. Private coaching time allows us to collaborate with your team on tailored solutions that directly align with your organization's goals and timelines and will help you work through organizational challenges to allow you to build and launch faster.
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
Meet Your Faculty
Bonnie Clipper DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN
Founder
Dr. Clipper is a nurse futurist, pioneer in virtual nursing, nationally recognized thought leader in building cultures of innovation, and global speaker. Bonnie was among the first to revolutionize how virtual nursing care is practiced and delivered in hospitals and created the Virtual Nursing Academy to deploy virtual nursing across the country.
Ryan Cornelius, MSN, RN
Virtual Nursing Catalyst
Ryan brings a wealth of experience in leadership and played a pivotal role in spearheading the implementation of cutting-edge care modalities to transform care on inpatient hospital units. His passion is shaping the future of healthcare delivery.
Dominick Pahl, MS, RN
Virtual Nursing Catalyst
Dominick leverages his clinical expertise and experience in the virtual care space to design, implement and support new virtual care delivery models. Dominick was the Nurse Administrator responsible for the Virtual Nursing, Remote Patient Monitoring, and Virtual Monitoring programs and played a pivotal role in virtual care initiatives for the Mayo Clinic Enterprise.
Claudia Q. Perez, BSN, MHI, RN
Innovation Strategist
Claudia is a nurse and has nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare. Her expertise is focused on using innovation frameworks to transform healthcare delivery utilizing the principles of Value-Based Healthcare. Claudia has a track record of demonstrating value through design thinking projects, technology showcases, Hackathons, and innovation challenges.
Erika Rolland, MSN, RN, RN-BC
Virtual Nursing Catalyst
Erika has experience in developing and advancing the virtual nursing specialty. She played a pivotal role in reshaping and redefining patient care models to align with the complex landscape of virtual healthcare. Her deep expertise is in remote patient monitoring nursing models.
Amy Roberson, MS, APRN, AGCNS-BC, CMSRN
Virtual Nursing Catalyst
Amy is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and leader in the integration of virtual care and nursing practice. She was a driving force behind the development and advancement of a virtual acute care nursing practice model, has championed the use of virtual technologies to connect nurses with patients and has been instrumental in advancing remote patient monitoring nursing practice for patients outside of the traditional healthcare setting.
Testimonials
What Our Clients Are Saying About Us
"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."
–Kara Tomlinson, Executive Director System Care Delivery & Innovation. Nebraska Medicine.
"Thanks to the Virtual Nursing Academy, I feel confident in my ability to spearhead the development and implementation of a virtual care program for both our patients and staff. I am eager to leverage the knowledge I have gained to enhance access to healthcare services, improve patient outcomes, and streamline workflows within our organization."
–Heather Crouch, Virtual Health Manager, Virtual Strategy. East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.
"The Virtual Nursing Academy opened my eyes to the vast potential for use of such a platform in the ever-changing healthcare arena and how we can better reach our patients and families. The tools and sessions created to develop business plans, how to approach barriers and best prepare for a roll out of such a project was invaluable. Thank you to the entire team who guided us in our thoughts and ideas on how we could potentially utilize such a service for our organizations."
–Christina Cook, Patient Care Services Manager, Ambulatory. Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
“Attending the Virtual Nursing Academy was a supportive and collaborative experience. The coaching team delivered real-world, actionable steps that we can apply as we develop our virtual nursing program. The coaches are true experts in the field, providing individualized coaching and asking critical questions to help work through virtual nurse challenges. This program presented opportunities to engage with and learn from other nursing leaders across various organizations, fostering a rich environment for exchanging ideas, strategies, and best practices.”
–Sara Werner, Telemedicine Program Manager. Huntsville Hospital.
"The coaches 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."
–Natalie Baggio, Chief Nurse Executive & SVP Clinical Operations. Corewell Health South.
"I am happy that I participated in the Virtual Nurse Academy. Our facilitators, Claudia and Amy, were excellent. I enjoyed networking and brainstorming with fellow nurse leaders. We are all in the same boat in regards to learning to think outside of the box with nursing care. Having this opportunity to bounce ideas off each other, troubleshooting and sharing best practices has been invaluable to me."
–Heidi Wright, Chief Nursing Officer. Halifax Health.
"The Virtual Nurse Academy team of experts provides such a great support system...and with their guidance and the invaluable resources available, I feel prepared to move forward with our virtual nursing program."
–April Nothhelfer, Assistant Director. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.
Virtual Nursing Academy
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