1. Developing Telehealth Leaders: Nursing Telehealth Education at the University of Virginia
Patty Schweickert, PMC FNP-BC, DNP
University of Virginia Medical Center
University of Virginia School of Nursing

2. Telehealth Education Goals
Provide advanced knowledge of telehealth and telehealth technologies
Dedicated telehealth courses
Addition of telehealth education and skills to curriculum
Provision of clinical experiences through preceptorship in telehealth
Capstone mentors
Exploring issue surrounding nursing telehealth practice
RN, NP, and DNP Telehealth education should include
Didactic
Hands on telehealth experience
Student can utilize this knowledge to integrate telehealth creatively into nursing practice

3. Telehealth Education objectives
Discuss basic telehealth technology and terminology
Describe current technologies and service delivery systems
Describe clinical applications, standards, and guidelines in telehealth
Analyze the impact of model telehealth programs on patient care outcomes
Identify the issues surrounding credentialing and licensure of HC providers using telehealth.
Recognize current status of reimbursements, legal, regulatory, policy issues related to implementation of telehealth
Examine the nurse’ role in using telehealth creatively to address provision of care
Fullest extent of our practice
Enter the era of the Affordable Care Act
Demonstrate utilization of telehealth technologies to explore the nursing role
Nurse Telepresenter and LIP Tele-consultation, provision of nursing care, patient education, patient monitoring

4. Telehealth education model
Inter-facility collaboration to educate RN, NP and DNP student
Sharing resources
Technologies
Interprofessional experts in telehealth

5. Telehealth education approach
Telehealth Nursing Education
Clinical Telehealth preceptor experience
Telehealth mentors for DNP Capstone projects
Basic and advanced telehealth courses
Inter-professional Telehealth Courses
Telehealth Simulation hands-on skills lab experience
Clinical telehealth experiences
Multimodal approach to telehealth education based on proposed standards

6. Telehealth education consortium
Areas for further collaboration and growth
Hub and spoke model borrowed from telestroke
Larger universities collaborate to provide telehealth expertise and educational opportunities to smaller colleges
Maximizing resources and potential educational and experience benefits
Expediting the infusion of telehealth education and experience to nurses
UVA SON