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NRP508 Health Policy And Role Of The Advanced Practice Nurse

Week 6 Discussion

Practicing in a Pandemic

Read Using Telehealth to Expand Access to Essential Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

It’s essential to understand the changes happening across the landscape of telehealth services due to recent policy changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s article listed above, telehealth has been a vital approach to delivering “acute, chronic, primary and specialty care” during this unpresented crisis (para. 2).

As telehealth is needed to provide virtual care during the pandemic and beyond, consider the following and respond in a minimum of 175 words:

How can telehealth help provide quality care to patients?

Which strategy do you believe is most crucial to increase the telehealth uptake? Why?