Applying Nurse Practitioner Student Reflections in Design of Telehealth Curricula

Digital Health Education and Training for Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Students: Scoping Review

“…Other students experienced telehealth during a clinical rotation [44] or as part of a clinical experience [67]. Telehealth education was delivered utilizing a variety of educational modalities or strategies including: didactic education (online modules and lectures, reading materials, videos, narrated lectures, self-directed modules) with simulation scenarios and standardized patients [41][42][43]45,47,49,50,53,55,56,[60][61][62][65][66][67][68]70]; asynchronous and synchronous simulation using teleconferencing tools and interactivities with or without didactic education [49,50,56,57,61,63,69]; telehealth self-paced learning with discussion [46]; guest speaker lectures with self-paced modules, lectures, and video conferencing demos [64,123]; simulation with a telehealth robot with an iPad and or a telehealth cart [52,53,62]; simulation with students acting as patients or providers [52,53,56,58]; telehealth as a clinical rotation [44,70]; telehealth OSCEs and clinical exams [45,61,63...…”

“…Researchers designed the interventional studies using different methods including mixed methods [41,53], pre/post design [69], descriptive design [52], quasi-experimental design [42,48], formative and summative evaluation introduced as educational activities [43,46,49,51],…”

“…program evaluations [44,45,47,54,61,63,67], pilot studies [41,50,53,55,57,58,60,62,65,66], and quality improvement projects [56,64,69]. Some studies applied pre/posttest or pre/post surveys to measure a variety of outcomes including knowledge, beliefs, confidence and comfort level, interest in telehealth, attitudes, preparedness, and satisfaction with the learning [42][43][44][45][46]48,50,54,62,64,66,70], proficiency and competence in performing skills, clinical decision making, working collaboratively with members of the health team, communication, providing care virtually, opinions, and experience of learning.…”

An Innovative International Telehealth Clinical Experience for Nurse Practitioner Students

“…10 Experiential training allows students to achieve all of the outcomes related to the 4Ps of telehealth (planning, preparing, providing, performance evaluation) and other telehealth competencies, including communication, assessment, use of technology, patient privacy, consent, etiquette, and billing. 11 Although simulation can be used to support competency development in telehealth, [12][13][14][15] innovative real-world clinical experiences are needed. [16][17][18] The purpose of this paper is to describe the pilot of an innovative global telehealth experience offered to an advanced practice nursing student at a public, Appalachian academic institution.…”

“…Experiential training allows students to achieve all of the outcomes related to the 4Ps of telehealth (planning, preparing, providing, performance evaluation) and other telehealth competencies, including communication, assessment, use of technology, patient privacy, consent, etiquette, and billing 11 . Although simulation can be used to support competency development in telehealth, 12–15 innovative real-world clinical experiences are needed 16–18 …”