From Bedside to Broadband: Exploring Virtual Nursing
Course Overview
Virtual nursing is emerging as an important model for extending nursing expertise, supporting bedside clinicians, and improving care delivery across a variety of healthcare settings. In this podcast, Dr. Katie Boston-Leary discusses how virtual nursing differs from traditional telehealth, common applications of virtual nursing, and the relationship between virtual and bedside nurses. The discussion also addresses implementation challenges, patient relationships, privacy and safety considerations, workforce implications, and opportunities for virtual nursing in areas such as medical-surgical care, maternal health, and rural healthcare.
Listen, Learn, and Earn CE Hours with this podcast course. Available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Differentiate virtual nursing from telehealth and other technology-supported models of care
- Identify clinical applications, benefits, and limitations of virtual nursing in supporting patients and bedside nursing teams.
- Describe key considerations for implementing virtual nursing, including collaboration, workflow integration, privacy and security, nurse engagement, and evaluation of outcomes.
About the Author/Presenter
Mackenzie Butler, DNP, MSN, RN-BC, is the Head of Nursing Products at Colibri Group, where she leads innovative solutions to advance nursing education and professional development. She holds a Doctorate in Nursing Practice and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership. In addition to her leadership role, Mackenzie serves as adjunct faculty at the College of Saint Benedict, sharing her expertise with future healthcare professionals. Her professional interests include healthcare simulation and leveraging technology to enhance learning outcomes.
Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, FADLN, FAONL, FAAN, is the Senior Vice President of Equity and Engagement at the American Nurses Association addressing DEIAB and workforce challenges within the profession. Katie is a TED speaker and sits on numerous boards and national committees in nursing and healthcare including St John’s University, Black Male Nurse Leaders (NBMNL) Board of Directors and is an editorial advisory board member with Nursing Management, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing 2025, OADN and ACHE. Katie leads the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing Forum an organized ANA’s inaugural Equity Summit in Washington, DC.
Katie is a 2024 ICN Global Nurse Leaders Institute Scholar and was previously identified in by Health Leaders Media as “One of Five Chief Nursing Officers Changing Healthcare”. She also won the ICABA TD Bank 2023 Woman of Impact award, the 2024 Spectrum Circle Award for Innovation in Health and won the 2025 National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) President’s Trailblazer Award. She was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow at the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing with the NBNA, is a Fellow with American Organization of Nursing Leadership (AONL), the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She was recently named as an honored listee on Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.
Katie authored two chapters in The Sage Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy, the first encyclopedia focused on racism and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. Katie was also featured in the award-winning documentary film, Everybody’s Work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She recently co-authored a Sigma published book titled Harmony by Design, Navigating Work and Life in Healthcare and held a TEDx Talk titled Leadfully, a framework on leading leveraging our natural human gifts.
She has conducted research on care delivery models, time allocation, nurses’ well-being, racism and civilized oppression in nursing with Quint Studer, Joslin Insight and McKinsey. She is a well-known speaker internationally with many publications, podcasts and national outlets namely CNBC, NY Times, Cheddar TV, Axios, Beckers, Forbes, Bloomberg News and on NBC’s Today Show. She completed her PhD at Walden University in Health Services, obtained a dual degree MBA and MHA from the University of Maryland Global Campus and her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Bowie State University in Maryland. She is a board-certified Nurse Executive and obtained a nurse executive leadership certificate from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
TRC Healthcare/ NetCE
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by TRC Healthcare/ NetCE. TRC Healthcare/NetCE is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions (select your profession for details):
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