The Smart Care Team Spotlight Podcast
The Smart Care Team Spotlight Podcast
Podcast Description
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the challenges faced by clinicians are mounting. Join host Molly McCarthy MBA RN-BC, former US Microsoft CNO, as she leads captivating conversations with today’s health leaders about the game-changing potential of AI and Ambient Intelligence for care teams. Visit virtualnursing.com, your go-to resource for accelerating the transition to smart care teams. Presented by care.ai ®.
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The podcast covers various themes focusing on the intersection of nursing and technology, particularly AI, enhancing patient care, and improving clinical workflows. Episodes like 'Nurses at the Core of the AI Task Force' address the critical role of nurses in adopting new technologies, while 'From Bedside to Tech Pioneer' explores innovations stemming from nursing informatics that streamline tasks, like automating vital sign documentation.
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the challenges faced by clinicians are mounting. Join host Molly McCarthy MBA RN-BC, former US Microsoft CNO, as she leads captivating conversations with today’s health leaders about the game-changing potential of AI and Ambient Intelligence for care teams. Visit virtualnursing.com, your go-to resource for accelerating the transition to smart care teams. Presented by care.ai ®.
Real progress in healthcare tech happens when nurses co-design the tools and the how is treated as seriously as the what. In this episode, Dr. Susan D. Smith, Director of Technology Research and Education at ChristianaCare and a nursing technology researcher, discusses how she moved from pediatric critical care into practice-based research and helped launch collaborative robots in a complex hospital environment. She shares what worked, including simple usability and clear value for routine deliveries, and what surprised her team, such as low demand for a nurse-facing robot call option when staff needed items immediately. Dr. Smith breaks down why missing pieces like reliable timing, visibility into when help is arriving, and workflows that pair equipment with medications can derail adoption even when the tech functions as designed. She also explains how a robotics-focused nursing research fellowship improved engagement and well-being, plus her statewide work building research capacity through NIH programs and a research-matching platform that connects mentors and collaborators. Tune in and learn how to move from big ideas to sustainable, nurse-led implementation! Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Susan D. Smith on LinkedIn. Follow ChristianCare on LinkedIn and explore their website! Nurse-Led Innovation Hub and implementation blueprint https://christianacare.org/us/en/for-health-professionals/nursing/nurse-led-innovation Integrating Collaborative Robots into a Complex Hospital Setting: A Qualitative Descriptive Study – PMC
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