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CMs can help clients and staff with building teamwork skills
Patient care can be helped or hindered by what is going on in the client’s home and community. How much family support does a patient have? Do they receive support from friends, community clubs, faith-based organizations, and neighbors?
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Experts: CMs need to adopt a life-long learner attitude
Today’s case manager needs to be a life-long learner, adopting interactive communication skills, improving organizational skills, and maintaining professionalism, according to a case management expert.
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What's Holding Case Managers Back?
Reimbursement and regulatory barriers are slowing down the transformative change that technology makes possible.
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Providers must tread carefully if patient objects to caregiver
Recent racial controversies have prompted some risk managers to wonder how to respond if a patient objects to the race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation of a caregiver.
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Study suggests more training, support for nurses treating patients with behavioral health concerns
Caring for patients with behavioral health concerns presents a number of challenges in the emergency setting.
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New CM model strives for more efficient transitions
An efficient transition of care system can provide faster transitions from acute care facilities to skilled nursing facilities.
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Having states pass the revised Nurse Licensure Compact could help CMs
A new Nurse Licensure Compact would allow registered nurses or licensed practical/vocational nurses to possess a multistate license that permits them to practice in their home states and other NLC states.
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Here are some tips on helping CMs evolve into policy leaders
Case managers just need a little confidence and a big mission to become public policy leaders, experts say.
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Case managers are a natural fit for roles in public policy advocacy
Professional case managers make natural public policy advocates because of their broad knowledge of healthcare and their leadership experience.
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Never events usually are traced to multiple human factors, not just a root cause
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have confirmed that most never events can be traced back to multiple human factors rather than just one root cause.