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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.
Online Community
The online community and discussion forum provides ongoing dialogue and opportunities for networking with other organizations on the virtual care journey.
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: $899 per participant
Live coaching add-on available!
Continuing Education
This nursing continuing professional development activity will award a maximum of 38.25 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. Three months of access to the content is provided.
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A message from founder, Dr. Bonnie Clipper
What VNA Alumni Are Saying:
Jennifer LoeschDirector Patient Care, Chief Nursing Officer, at United Hospital Hastings Regina Campus & River Falls Area Hospital, part of Allina Health
The Virtual Nursing Academy helped us immensely. Taking our thought journey from the initial concept right through to the planning stages. Thanks to the program, we felt confident in outlining our virtual nursing use cases and building a unified vision among our care teams. The comprehensive learning content and structured framework provided us with the confidence and practical tools we needed to turn our ideas into actionable plans. It has really boosted our ability to design and get ready for a sustainable virtual nursing model as we move forward with our technology solution.
Margo MinissianExecutive Director, Nursing Institute & Simms/Mann Endowed Chair in Nurse Education, Innovation & Research
The Virtual Nursing Academy offered a powerful roadmap that guided our team in building a fully developed virtual nursing program from the very beginning. It also equipped us with critical data collection resources to strengthen our business case so that we could establish and demonstrate ROI. Most importantly, our nurse leaders found it invaluable—it gave them the clarity, confidence, and sense of partnership they needed throughout what could have been an overwhelming implementation process.
