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The Case Manager’s Toolbox: The Essential Skills of an Effective Case Manager, Part 4
This month, we will end our discussion on case management skills, tools, and techniques with an in-depth review of the concept of communication, particularly in the role of the case management professional.
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Simulation Can Improve Staff PPE Safety
It is important for healthcare workers to learn and practice the correct way to wear personal protective equipment. One helpful technique is to use medical simulation.
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Medical Marijuana and Patient Treatment
If a patient asks about medical marijuana, how will you respond? Are you familiar with the legalities and science to advise your patient? The legalities are complex, but the bottom line is this: medical marijuana is gaining support nationwide.
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Ethical Considerations for Complex Discharges
What will you do if a patient refuses prescribed treatment? If the patient does not follow doctor’s orders, how will you advise them? If adult children will not let you tell the patient his diagnosis, what will you do? These are common situations in healthcare. Each raises an ethical dilemma for hospital case managers.
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Case Management Leaders Should Identify Sustainable Solutions
Hospital case management leaders have found their departments evolving in recent years, often to include practices and models that focus on population health goals. As care coordinators and case managers move toward transitions that incorporate these goals, one challenge is sustainability. New research provides a model for sustaining a collaborative practice model that advances population health.
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Mandates for Discharging Homeless Patients Take Effect in California
California recently enacted a law that addresses this issue by requiring hospitals to follow a prescribed plan for identifying and safely discharging homeless patients. SB 1152 outlines specific discharge planning measures for homeless patients in acute care hospitals.
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Plan of Care Rounds Improve Communication
Collaborative care teams can use interdisciplinary plan of care rounds to improve communication and facilitate smooth transitions. The plan of care round team can give patients a brief overview and answer patients’ questions or concerns.
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Decline in Medicare Readmissions Likely Not Caused by Reduction Program
Results of a comprehensive study, analyzing more than 6 million Medicare admissions, revealed declining 30-day hospital readmissions from 2009 to 2014. Some policymakers have attributed the decline to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, introduced in 2010. But researchers found the declining readmissions also could be explained by declining hospital admission rates over the same period.
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Case Study: Small-Town Hospital Adopted Telemedicine
Two years ago, Dosher Memorial Hospital was losing one of its three hospitalists. This small-town hospital in Southport, NC, needed to fill the slot quickly, which had never been easy. Yet without that hospitalist, there would be no overnight coverage.