Elevate Your Nursing Expertise
Welcome to the Nexus 2024 Pre-Conference Insights Workshop on Virtual Nursing!
The following resources are provided to support your workshop experience. Speakers and facilitators will reference these documents and provide additional instructions throughout the workshop. If you have trouble downloading or accessing a resource, please inform an ATA member or contact Allison Kavanagh (akavanagh@americantelemed.org).
Workshop Resources and Tools
Virtual Care Nursing: A Literature Review on Impacts
Resources
Asynchronous Healthcare Definitions and Use Cases
Healthy Aging: Leveraging Telehealth to Support Caregivers and Those They Care For
Making the Case for Non-Discriminatory Regulation and Reimbursement for Home Testing
Making the Case for Non-Discriminatory Regulation and Reimbursement for Home Testing - Appendices
Provider Challenges and Telehealth Opportunities for Medication Management
Resource Document on Best Practices in Synchronous Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health
What to Consider When Considering A Telehealth Stethoscope: A Buyer’s Guide
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Workshop Agenda
Step into the future of nursing at the ATA Insights Workshop on Virtual Nursing, exclusively curated as a pre-conference event to ATA Nexus 2024. Created by nursing executives for nursing executives, this immersive experience is only open to nursing professionals and executives eager to develop actionable strategies and gain the tools necessary to propel their organizations to new heights. The two-day workshop offers a rich agenda of expert-led sessions, real-world case studies, and collaborative discussions.
Times are in local time | Note: Schedule subject to change.
ATA Insights Workshop on Virtual Nursing - Day 1
Saturday, May 4 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Room N227C
- 2:00 – 2:10 PM Welcome Opening Remarks
- Murielle Beene, DNP, MBA, MPH, MS, RN, NI-BC, PMP, FAMIA, FAAN, Senior VP and CHIO, Trinity Health, @TrinityHealthHQ
- Kristi Henderson, DNP, NP-C, FAAN, FAEN, CEO, Confluent Health and Chair, ATA
- Paul Samargedlis, Senior VP, Business Development and Strategy, ATA
- 2:10 – 2:20 PM Setting the Stage: Insights Workshop Orientation
- 2:20 – 3:00 PM IDEA STAGE Panel: Nurturing Change: Empowering Virtual Nursing Through Organizational Adaptation
- Moderator: Lisa-Mae Williams, PhD, RN, CNO, Intercept Telehealth and Senior Telehealth Consultant, Blue Cirrus
- Amanda Pate, MSN, OCN, RN-BC, Director of Nursing and Virtual Services, Oncology Care Partners
- Melinda Stretzinger, RN, CCRN, Manager, Critical Care Telemedicine & Virtual Nursing, Ochsner Health
- Paul Malito, MHA, BSN, RN, Director of Nursing Services, eMedicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital
- Karie Ryan, MS, BSN, RN, CENP, CNO, Artisight
- 3:00 – 3:20 PM Working Group Discussion
- 3:20 – 3:30 PM Working Group Report-out’s
- 3:30 - 3:35 PM Transition
- 3:35 – 3:50 PM Fireside Chat
- Noel Khirsukhani, Chief Growth Officer, Andor Health
- Jason Swoboda, Director of Innovation, Tampa General Hospital
- 3:50 – 4:30 PM PLANNING STAGEPanel: Optimizing Virtual Nursing: Strategies for Resource Assessment and Staffing Models
- Moderator: Julie Miller, BSN, RN, CCRN, Clinical Practice Specialist-Practice Excellence, American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
- Jada Dockery, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CMSRN, AVP SE Resource Team and Virtual Nursing/Observation Services, Atrium Health
- Lisa-Mae Williams, PhD, RN, CNO, Intercept Telehealth
- Jeffrey Blake Hoegger, Director of Virtual Care, Texas Oncology
- Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, Chief Clinical Officer, AvaSure
- 4:30 – 4:50 PM Working Group Discussion
- 4:50 – 5:00 PM Working Group Report-out’s
- 5:00 PM Close Day 1
- 5:45 - 6:45 PM Reception at the Renaissance Downtown Phoenix
ATA Insights Workshop on Virtual Nursing - Day 2
Sunday, May 5 | 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Room N227C
- 7:30 – 8:15 AM Networking Breakfast
- 8:15 - 8:25 AM Day 2 Overview, Discuss Learnings from Day 1, etc.
- 8:25 - 8:50 AM System Spotlight: Houston Methodist
- Aroub Khleif, PhD, Administrative Director, Innovation and Ambulatory and Clinical Systems
- Sarah Pletcher, MD, MHCDS, VP and Executive Medical Director, Strategic Innovation, Houston Methodist Medical System
- 8:50 - 9:30 AM BUILDING STAGE Panel: Choices, Choices: Evaluating Technology and Partner Collaborations
- Moderator: Tearsanee Davis, DNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, Director, Clinical Programs and Strategy, UMMC Center for Telehealth, University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Denise Pimintel, RN, MN, MS, CCRN-K, System Manager, Clinical, CommonSpirit
- Sarah Pletcher, MD, MHCDS, VP and Executive Medical Director, Strategic Innovation, Houston Methodist Medical System
- John Sharpe, Principal Product Manager, CommonSpirit Virtual Health
- Mauri Williams, RN, MBA/MHA, NE-BC, CSSBB, Vice President, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Vice President, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, UNC Health
- 9:30 – 9:50 AM Working Group Discussion
- 9:50 – 10:00 AM Working Group Report-out’s
- 10:00 – 10:15 AM Fireside Chat: hellocare
- Moderator: Murielle Beene, DNP, MBA, MPH, MS, RN, NI-BC, PMP, FAMIA, FAAN, Senior VP and CHIO, Trinity Health
- Labinot Bytyqi, Founder & CEO, hellocare
- 10:15 – 10:30 AM Break
- 10:30 – 11:10 AM ESTABLISHED/OPTIMIZATION STAGE Panel: Strategic Alignment: Navigating the Path to Success
- Moderator: Barbara Edson, RN, MBA/MHA, Executive Director, Virtual Care Center, UNC Health
- Summer Blackerby, MSML, BSN, NI-BC, CNIO, Cox Health
- Dawn Hatchew, MSN, RN, C-EFM Nursing Practice Associate, Corewell Health
- Melinda Stretzinger, RN, CCRN, Manager, Critical Care Telemedicine & Virtual Nursing, Ochsner Health
- James Wilson, Virtual Health Specialist, Spectrum Health
- 11:10 – 11:30 AM Working Group Discussion
- 11:30 - 11:40 AM Working Group Report-out’s
- 11:40 AM – 12:05 PM System Spotlight: Mayo Clinic
- Samantha Holligan, MBA, BSN, RN, N.E.-B.C., Nurse Administrator, Mayo Clinic
- Holly Martinez, DNP, MSN, RN, Virtual Care Nurse Manager, Mayo Clinic
- 12:05 – 12:45 PM: Fireside Chat: It’s All About the Data! Exploring the Impact and State of Virtual Nursing - Fro Research to Quality Outcomes
- Ann Fronczek, PhD, RN, Associate Professor and Director UG and PhD Programs, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton University
- Saif Khairat, PhD, MPH, FAMIA, Associate Professor and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing
- 12:45 – 1:20 PM Networking Lunch
- 1:20 – 1:30 PM Discussion
- 1:30 PM Close