Expanding Access: Enhancing School-Based Clinical Staffing with Teletherapy Solutions
Introduction AMN Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare workforce solutions, generates a wide range of surveys, reports, white papers, speaking presentations, podcasts, webinars and other thought leadership resources providing insight into current workforce trends and delivery models. In this white paper, we examine key considerations and sequential steps required to implement teletherapy services at schools K-12, including:
The characteristics and capabilities of technology required to provide school-based therapy services. Potential benefits of school-based teletherapy. Challenges to implementation. The hybrid work model, combining on-site and virtual services. Parental and student outreach and orientation. Workflow and progress tracking. Real-world case histories of school-based teletherapy implementation.
The white paper begins with an overview of the context in which school clinical staffing takes place.
Market Context: A Growing Need for Clinical Professionals at the Nation’s Public Schools Public schools in the U.S., of which there are more than 98,000 serving more than 52 million students, are competing in a historically tight labor market for the services of clinical professionals, including nurses, speech-language pathologists, school psychologists and other related service providers. In its 2023 Survey of Public School Healthcare Staffing Trends , AMN Healthcare found that public schools, like many other settings, are challenged when it comes to staffing the clinical professionals they need. The majority of schools responding to the survey (52%) reported that they are understaffed with clinical professionals. Schools are having difficulty recruiting a variety of clinical professionals. About two-thirds of school administrators surveyed (65%) rated school psychologists as the most difficult type of clinical professional to recruit, followed by speech-language pathologists (63%), registered behavioral technicians (60%), speech-language pathology assistants (57%) and registered nurses (52%).
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