Case Management Programs for Staff Nurses

Case management is defined by Siefker, Garrett, Van Genderen and Weis (1998) as the process of helping the patient and his family to find medical solutions to health care problems and difficulties. Normally, case management is said to involve three steps: assignment of primary responsibility for the patient, systematic and regular review of patient progress regarding the medical difficulty, and the development of a plan to address any barriers to progress.

In terms of the Advanced Practice role of Nurse Educator (NE), case management primarily involves designing, implementing and assessing case management programs for staff nurses (DeYoung, 2002). However, the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (2004) reports that Nurse Educators can, if they choose, also function in the role of case manager and that their expertise in design, assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation would make strong contributions to fulfilling the role.

Nonetheless, it seems reasonable to state that functioning in the role of case manager is probably not going to be a decision the majority of Nurse Educators can make. Therefore, the question can be asked as to how Nurse Educators can function so as to augment their level of involvement in case management? In other words, what can techniques and strategies can Nurse Educators use to develop and implement the case management role?

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