Using Nursing Case Management to Improve Health Outcomes

Using Nursing Case Management to Improve Health Outcomes acknowledges nurses' preeminence as case managers and focuses on linking nursing theory and practice to the role. It describes an emerging, holistic form of case management, which sees the case manager coordinating multidisciplinary care as well as acting as a liaison for patients in a disjointed delivery system, looking after their welfare throughout the continuum of care while maintaining costs and minimizing return trips to acute facilities. The promotion of patient self-responsibility, wellness, and caring are integrated into the coordinator/financial overseer role of the case manager. Both the managerial and clinical functions of the case manager are addressed in this forward-looking book on an increasingly important aspect of nursing and health care delivery.