Case Management Advisor (Vol. 27, No. 4) - April 1, 2016

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Release date: April 2016

Valid through: April 2018

Target Audience

This education activity is intended for nurses, nurse practitioners who work in case management environments.

Subjects

  • Case management fits with palliative care services, which have increased 148% in past decade
  • Integrating palliative care into case management can work
  • Palliative care case studies
  • Diabetes populations’ results improve after care coordination
  • High reliability organizations aim high, strive for zero
  • Hospital culture must be measured, not just improved
  • Malpractice can begin at the front desk with simple errors by the admissions staff

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.

Credit Available

Nurses

  • 1.25 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 1.5 CMCC Contact Hours

Sponsor

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation Statement

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation

Nurses

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 #CEP14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours.

Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years

Faculty Listing

Authors

Melinda Young.

Editors

Nurse Planner: Margaret Leonard

Managing Editor: Jill Drachenberg

Associate Managing Editor: Dana Spector

Financial Disclosure

Editor Melinda Young, Managing Editor Jill Drachenberg, Associate Managing Editor Dana Spector, and Nurse Planner Margaret Leonard 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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