Virtual nursing could upend traditional staff ratios

Virtual nursing could upend traditional staff ratios
Becker's Clinical Leadership; by Paige Twenter; 1/13/25
In conversations about virtual, team-based nursing services, the term "nurse-to-patient ratios" is an anachronism, according to nursing leaders at Providence and Trinity Health. Within the traditional primary nursing model, a virtual mountain of research demonstrates low nurse-to-patient ratios bolster safety and quality of care. However, as new virtual programs emerge and pick up steam, new research indicates that virtual nursing models improve communication, safety and quality — all without assigning a ratio.