Update | Score | Rationale | Comments |
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Telehealth nurse shadowed a sleep medicine physician | +1 | Successful experience for nurse, who observed while sleep doc set up a new patient with PAP in Sleep Clinic | Reported that small events like this help people start to think about the notion of "TeleSleep" |
TeleSleep recruitment continues to be slow | -1 | Enrollment for wave 2 has been disappointing so far: 5 patients so far for March, when the goal was 30 | Suggested that inertia was at play here, and that respiratory technicianss still prefer to use older machines vs. new ResMED machines |
Need for new telehealth nurse | -3 | Without additional staff, existing Telehealth nurses participating in TeleSleep will likely face work overload | Explained that new full time Telehealth nurse is needed to cope with future TeleSleep demand, in part because TeleSleep represents additional work above and beyond normal duties |