Target Audience:
This activity is intended for nurse case managers, case management directors, social workers, and utilization review nurses who work outside the acute care setting.Accreditation:
AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.Credit Designation:
This activity has been approved for 1.25 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours.
Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years. Faculty
Editor
Mary Booth Thomas
Executive Editor
Russ Underhood
AHC Media
Senior Vice President/Group Publisher
Don Johnston
AHC Media
Nurse Planner
Margaret Leonard, MS, RN-BC, FNP
Senior Vice President
Clinical Services
Hudson Health Plan
Tarrytown, NY
Subjects:
- Understand patients' lives, follow up after discharge
- Program aims for early interventions
- High-risk Medicare members targeted
- CMs help HIV patients get care, other support
- Root out under-triage in the ED
- Are your people too afraid to report errors?
Objectives:
- Identify clinical, legal, legislative, regulatory, financial, and social issues relevant to case management
- Explain how the clinical, legal, legislative, regulatory, financial, and social issues relevant to case management affect case managers and clients.
- Describe practical ways to solve problems that case managers encounter in their daily case management activities
Financial Disclosure:
Editor Mary Booth Thomas, Executive Editor Russ Underwood, Senior Vice President/Group Publisher Don Johnston, and Nurse Planner Margaret Leonard, MS, RN-BC, FNP report no consultant, stockholder, speaker's bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study.
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