Telehealth professionalism is an often-overlooked element when performing telehealth visits, but it is one that can impact patient and provider satisfaction with this health care delivery modality. This article describes a telehealth professionalism activity that was integrated into the education of advanced practice registered nursing students as one part of their telehealth education. Attainment in knowledge with this activity, in conjunction with positive student feedback, shows promise regarding the impact of the educational intervention and its sustainability.KEY WORDS Depression -Telehealth Etiquette -Telehealth Professionalism -Telepsychiatry W ith the rapid adoption of telehealth as a modality to provide quality health care at a distance, measures need to be in place to ensure that remote care affords patients with the same sense of well-being as in-person visits. Barriers to the utilization of telehealth include the loss of personalization and therapeutic communication (Cowan et al., 2019;Kocsis & Yellowlees, 2018;Wiljer et al., 2019). To combat these barriers, telehealth providers must be educated on the interpersonal skills and environmental requirements that are needed during a telehealth visit. These are known as telehealth professionalism or telehealth etiquette.It is important to note that telehealth professionalism not only encompasses therapeutic communication with the patient but also addresses several areas that contribute to a seamless telehealth visit at both the originating and distant sites (Gustin et al., 2020;Maheu et al., 2018;Rutledge et al., 2017). This article describes how one graduate nursing program combined a telehealth professionalism activity with telepsychiatry training in an existing clinical course for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Reports of a pretest-posttest are presented, along with student comments from debriefing and a short essay evaluation.
INTRODUCTION: There are a growing number of civilian mental health providers who are treating active duty service members (ADSM) from referrals of local emergency rooms, directly from military installations, or when a military mental health program is unavailable. Civilian providers may be unprepared to address issues that are unique to this population. AIM: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to develop and implement a survey-based knowledge assessment, in order to assess civilian psychiatric advanced practice nurse’s (APN) perceptions, knowledge, and practice of treating ADSMs. METHOD: The investigator developed and validated a survey that was posted on the American Psychiatric Nurses Association All-Purpose Discussion Forum, and the snowball technique was utilized to enhance psychiatric APN colleague recruitment. RESULTS: Seventy-eight participants scored extremely low with average score of 40.4%; however, the psychiatric APNs who received formal training from the Department of Defense on unique mental health issues of ADSMs scored significantly higher (49.6%) than participants without the formal training (38.2%; p = .03). CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the knowledge gap of psychiatric APNs as it relates to the care of ADSMs will allow educators to recommend available trainings or develop trainings that are tailored to meet their needs.
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