Advanced Case Management

#1 - Introduction

1. Case management definitions
2. Case manager roles
3. Settings for case managers
4. Training, certification, and standards

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the role of the Case Manager
   

#2 - Functional Assessment

1. Comprehensive assessment parameters.
2. Identifying valid tools and collecting meaningful data.
3. International Classification System of Functioning, Disability, and Health: the World Health Organization’s new system for creating international standards for measurement.
4. Using the ICS as a case management tool for assessment and planning.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the scope of comprehensive functional assessment functional assessment and how to use the data gathered.
2. Discuss the emergence of a new international data gathering process and the possible benefits for the case manager.
   

#3 - Data Analysis and Planning

1. Data analysis and planning
2. Identifying team members
3. Communication tools, formal and informal methods for reporting data
4. Monitoring the hospital stay
5. Solving special issues
6. Team meeting/planning

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify key players in the healthcare systems.
2. Discuss payer sources and effects on admissions, treatment, and discharges.
   

#4 - Navigating the continuum of care – Part 1

1. Identifying settings where care is provided.
2. Determining how to select the most appropriate care setting.
3. Pitfalls of moving clients from one setting to another.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the key issues in placing patients in care settings in the continuum of care.
   

#5 - Navigating the continuum of care – Part 2

1. Pitfalls of moving clients from one setting to another, continued.
2. The case manager’s role in creating smooth transitions.
3. Risks when transfers are inappropriate.
4. Case studies.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Develop a method for selecting appropriate placements and ensuring a smooth transition.

#6 - Ethical dilemmas and foundations in case management

1. Basic ethical principles
2. Tools to guide decision making
3. Us versus Them: how to cope with differing ideas and agendas
4. Case studies

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the ethical conflicts inherent in addressing the interests of multiple parties involved in patient care.
2. Identify tools and strategies for clarifying and taking an ethical stance.
   

Accreditation Information

Nurses - Academy Medical Systems is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. 9 contact hours will be rewarded to nursing professionals at the completion of this workshop.

Academy Medical Systems is also a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #CEP14413, for 9 hours. AMS is an approved provider of the Florida Board of Nursing, provider # 50-19, for 9 hours and we are listed on CE Brokers.

Iowa Nurses - The Iowa Board of Nurses will recognize the recorded webinars as a home study program. They recognize our ANCC approved provider status as well as our CA and Fl Board of Nursing provider approval for home study products for nurses in Iowa.

All other states recognize our approved provider status listed in the above text for continuing education credit for nurses.

Occupational Therapists - Occupational Therapist will receive 9, continuing education hours for completion this program and a test score of 70% or better. AMS is an approved provider for the AOTA , provider # 5470.  This course is an intermediate education level.

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