This text presents advice on nursing case management, focusing on the conceptual and practical applications across the health-care continuum. Written from the context of current and anticipated changes in health-care restructuring, the book explains the components of nursing case management, including development, planning, implementation, cost-effectiveness and outcome evaluation. It also includes detailed examples, with case studies of successful management programmes, sample forms, worksheets and other tools that can be adapted and applied to the individual principles of case management.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 279 mm
Breite: 216 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-8151-1518-2 (9780815115182)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The new practice environment; nurses as advanced practitioners and primary care providers; grass roots efforts - nurses involved in the political process; nursing's response to health-care transformation - a nurse executive's view; academia's involvement in health-care redesign; key elements of nurse case management in curricula; the education of nurses - nurse case manager's view; the Denver Nursing Education Project - promoting the health of persons living with HIV/AIDS; academic nursing centres and community-based nursing information systems; case management in community nursing centres; integrating systems across the continuum; innovative delivery systems; freedom, trust, caring; theory of the nurse-client parnership; working in partnership; nurse case management in a rural community; parish nursing; nurse case management in long-term care; case management as a response to quality, cost, and access imperatives; risk identification - management versus avoidance; issues of design and implementation from acute care, long-term care and community-based settings; staff development for nurse case management; marketing nurse case management in rural community hospitals; differentiated practice within and beyond the hospital walls; the influence of reimbursement on nurse case management practice - Carondelet's experience; discovering and achieving client outcomes.
