Hospital Case Management articles from March 2002

Hospital Case Management archives from March 2002

Case management models, not staffing formulas, dictate caseload: variations in functions make benchmarking difficult.
March 1, 2002... Case managers often attempt to benchmark caseloads, but variation in the functions case managers perform can make it difficult to come up with reliable numbers. "It is a difficult problem, because what case managers do in one facility is...

Hospital quantifies workload and caseload.
March 1, 2002... If no case manager is working weekends, there is the potential to have an increased workload on Mondays and Fridays in preparation for a well-coordinated discharge from hospital as well as screening new patients for case management needs, says...

Knowledge of home care key for case managers: managing physician interactions is key.
March 1, 2002... Home care may be a vital component of the health care continuum for case managers. But that doesn't mean that home care is vital to physicians, despite the important role they play in this area. "It's a real quandary," says veteran home care...

How to appraise your teamwork performance. (Guest Column).
March 1, 2002... Teamwork is an important component of case management. Case managers must closely collaborate with other caregivers and providers as well as other members of the case management department. It is sometimes difficult to separate individual...

Bioterror response requires targeted disaster plan: Stanford initiative draws nationwide attention. (Critical Path Network[TM]).
March 1, 2002... It's not enough merely to update the bioterrorism component of your current disaster preparedness plan, experts say; you must create a detailed bioterrorism response plan that stands on its own. That's precisely the philosophy behind the...

Find optimal staffing for outpatient surgery. (Ambulatory Care Quarterly).
March 1, 2002... If there is anything constant in this business, it is the inconsistency we have in our staffing levels. So, what's the deal here? The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses in Cherry Hill, NJ, and the Association of periOperative Registered...

Ambulatory programs call for different type of CQI: schedule, patients who leave add to challenge. (Ambulatory Care Quarterly).(continuous quality improvement )
March 1, 2002... One more chore. One more piece of paper to complete. One more thing that pulls nurses away from patient care. One more way for managers to find fault with staff members. One more thing that you have to do for accreditation. Well, it is required...

CE questions.
March 1, 2002... Save your monthly issues with the CE questions in order to take the two semester tests in the June and December issues. A Scantron sheet will be inserted in those issues, but the questions will not be repeated. 9. According to Julia...

CE objectives.
March 1, 2002... After reading each issue of Hospital Case Management, the nurse will be able to do the following: * identify particular clinical, administrative, or regulatory issues related to the profession of case management; * describe how those...