Criminal Justice Settings The literature is reported to have categorized the case manager's fundamental functions into five activities including: (1) assessment of the needs of the client; (2) service plan development; (3) directing the client to needed services; (4) client progress monitoring; and (5) advocacy for the client's needs. (Healey, 1999, p
2) It is reported that there are several rules that are applicable to participants in drug treatment courts including the following: (1) 42 CRR Part 2 -- the alcohol and substance abuse treatment confidentiality rule; and (2) HIPAA -- new federal rules covering all health related information. (Peterson, nd, p
The range of problems facing human services clients and the specific helping skills that can be used with clients "Human services tend to be as broad as the needs and problems of the client base" (Helping those in need, 2011, BLS: 23). Problems faced by the clients of social service workers are often called 'problems in living' or problems with families and commitments; seeking an education, adapting to a new culture; caring for others and other life cycle-related issues (Woodside & McClam 2011: 6)
In my opinion, linking hospital reimbursement to hospital outcomes is a strategy that contributes to quality improvement in the healthcare services. As a result, quality, which is a basic determinant of value, becomes the major focus for hospitals and other care providers (Wright, 2011)
Nurse Case Managers and Congestive Heart Failure: Generally, heart failure cases are regarded as one of the most common and increasingly challenging diseases for nurses. Since the course of this disease is not usually fostered by patient education, the input of nursing in attempts to address the problem tends to be deceptively simple and straightforward (Blancett & Flarey, 2006, p
Nurse Case Manager: Case management in the nursing field is basically described as the functions and activities carried out by the nurse case manager within a specific care setting. In some cases, these functions and activities are usually performed by a self-governing practitioner, especially in private case management practices and community nursing facilities (Cohen & Cesta, 2005, p
In addition to the requirement to have a bachelor's degree, nurses are required to have sound clinical experience in order to prepare a community health plan for a patient. The other necessary sills for this practice include a broad understanding of health issues, critical thinking skills, analytical abilities, advocacy, and ability to deal with change and uncertainty (Meadows, 2009)
Support is given to the individual's loved ones as well. At the heart of hospice and palliative care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our families will receive the necessary (Walsh, 2003)
As more creative ways are developed to deliver consumer-focused quality health services, the traditional picture of the nurse, the doctor and the patient is being transformed. . (Adrian & O'connell, 2000, p
"Dignity can be considered as two values: other-regarding by respecting the dignity of others, and self-regarding by respecting one's own dignity or self-respect." (Gallagher, 2004, p
"A person with HIV has the right to refuse any medical treatment or procedure, even if a decision not to undergo treatment may result in death." (Rubenstein, Eisenberg & Gostin, 1996, p
This model uses the staff nurse in the position of case manager. In addition to hands on direct nursing care, they are also responsible for indirect nursing functions that include: physical assessments, medication administration, intravenous administration, wound management and patient/family education (Cesta, and Tahan, 2002)
In addition to hands on direct nursing care, they are also responsible for indirect nursing functions that include: physical assessments, medication administration, intravenous administration, wound management and patient/family education (Cesta, and Tahan, 2002). The goals of acute case management often include: encouraging timely discharges, prompt, efficient use of all available resources, achievement of expected outcomes, collaborative practice, coordination of care across the continuum, and performance improvement activities which lead to optimal patient outcomes (Cohen, and Cesta, 2005)
Case management has been used to describe a wide variety of programs and services in the hospital setting. Many nurses and other health care professionals are often confused about how case management compares with nursing care delivery systems (Lyon, 1993)
Nurses are well matched to the role because the functions of case management closely follow the framework of the nursing process: assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Case management as a process widen this framework and incorporates additional components, such as patient identification or case selection; resource identification; advocacy; coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of care; data collection and analysis; and documentation of multiple outcomes, including cost, quality, and client status (White, and Hall, 2006)
Where those proposals fall short is in assuming that these shared social and financial goals can be realized with the fragmented, market-based services that are in place today. "Whether it is the systematic denial of coverage and care in the private insurance system, the price-inflated private Medicare plans, the poor results of privatized Medicaid administration, or the costly Massachusetts health reform, in no instance has the market succeeded in providing equitable access to quality care at a cost affordable to individuals and society as a whole" (Ten Health Care Financing Principles to Ensure Universality, Equity, and Accountability, 2009)
Meanwhile, the current patriarchal system, constructed by men and assigning high value to masculinity and low value to femininity (Butts & Rich, 2010, p. 177), tends to devalue the traditionally "feminine" characteristics (Blackford, Dec 2003, p
One way in which nurses learn their roles and functions in the healthcare system is through Case Management. For example, through Newman's model of nurse case management, the nurse can: review the totality of circumstances; focus on the "caring and commitment" aspect of service; learn and honor a patient's choices and goals; assist the patient in reaching educated decisions; raise the quality of care while reducing costs; expand his/her work with patients to assist them in settings outside the nurse's set service area; and employ a team-oriented approach to care (Butts & Rich, 2010, p
Furthermore, the team approach and rightful empowerment and importance of nurses in policy-making and patient advocacy (Butts & Rich, 2010, p. 58) are antithetical to the male-centered patriarchal culture of current healthcare (Kavanagh & Knowlden, 2004, p
If interventions could be implemented that were less costly or more effective than it might be more clinically useful. The researchers reluctantly agree with previous findings that interventions during pregnancy are unlikely to improve maternal health and pregnancy outcomes in women experiencing lifetime poverty, disadvantage and poor health (Villar, 1992)