Preceptors, always an important component of a case management department, have taken on new importance. The nursing shortage’s impact on case management departments has heightened the need for enhanced recruitment and necessitated multiple orientees and orientations throughout the year.
Multidisciplinary rounds can help to improve communication and streamline discharge planning. Technology, when used correctly, can be a useful tool to support those efforts.
In October, a man shot and killed a hospital social worker and nurse at Methodist Dallas Medical Center before being shot by police and taken into custody. It marks yet another high-profile violent incident in healthcare.
Maternal mortality is not the only pregnancy-related issue case managers will likely encounter. Perinatal mortality, a combined measure of fetal deaths after 20 weeks and infant deaths shortly after birth, is a profound trauma that may affect patients as well.
As the ambulance races through the streets toward the medical center, Mary, an end-stage heart failure patient with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), expects to be admitted once again.
Case management directors have already felt the impact of the shortage, which has reached crisis proportions at times, and they are searching for solutions. Could case manager nurse travelers be the answer?
While in the early stages of developing a nationwide directory of providers and services, CMS has already shown a commitment to information transparency. The agency published ownership data for all Medicare-certified nursing homes in September, making it easier to hold owners of multiple facilities—including private equity firms—accountable.
Jessie, a nurse case manager, feels healthcare has changed since the beginning of the pandemic. She believes that the greatest change comes from the recent initiation of new healthcare coverage plans, primarily Medicaid managed care and Medicare Advantage.
Directors are searching for solutions to the healthcare staffing shortage. Could one of them involve changing your leadership style to boost outcome achievement?
