Experiences of nurse practitioners with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to the way nurse practitioners (NPs) provided care for patients, including the explosive and instantaneous use of telehealth in lieu of face-to-face services to maintain safe health care access and provision for patients and providers.

Purpose: Although the literature abounds with patient perspectives and benefits of telehealth, little is found about the perceptions and experiences of NPs providing telehealth services during this time when telehealth was the primary care mode of providing nonacute care.

Methodology: This mixed-methods, descriptive, exploratory study describes demographic and quantitative data about telehealth experiences collected from NPs across the nation early in the pandemic during fall 2020, and similar quantitative data collected later in spring 2021 from NPs in one state.

Vision, grit, and collaboration: how the Wisconsin Center for Nursing achieved both sustainable funding and established itself as a state health care workforce leader.

In 2001, a dedicated group of nurses from across Wisconsin came together to discuss how to create a state center of expertise on key nursing workforce issues. The result was the establishment of the Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN) in 2005. Since that time, through its statewide Board of Directors, WCN has clarified and targeted specific state workforce needs and identified gaps that exist in addressing those needs.

Emergency preparedness competencies: assessing nurses' educational needs.

This article reports findings from a research study designed to assess the level of familiarity Wisconsin nurses have regarding their response to large-scale emergency events. The research process identified 8 emergency preparedness dimensions, which were then investigated in the study. Efforts were also undertaken to determine the types of educational offerings and class-scheduling options most preferred by nurses.