South Dakota State University’s College of Nursing announced an agreement to use the CareSpan USA Inc.’s Virtual Clinic to train its students. This partnership is the first of its kind. While CareSpan is in conversations with other colleges of nursing, SDSU is the only one currently using it for instructing students.
This agreement extends a January 2016 agreement between the two parties. South Dakota State uses the CareSpan platform in its nursing classrooms in Brookings, Rapid City and Sioux Falls. It will start using the platform in its classes in Aberdeen.
CareSpan’s virtual clinic integrates a patient-provider video telepresence and captures vital signs, medical images and heart/breathing sounds. It also allows e-prescribing, real-time specialist consultations, interactive patient education, informed consents and electronic health records.
“This agreement allows all of our students to learn and develop their skills using this innovative health care delivery system,†said Mary Anne Krogh ’85/’11 Ph.D., the college’s dean. “We have seen the benefits of using the CareSpan platform as it was instrumental in our Healthcare Simulation Center receiving provisional accreditation by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in teaching and education.â€
The CareSpan technology will allow simulated patient exams to occur live among nursing students, patient assistants and instructors.
