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Case Management Nurse Careers
05/01/09
As the name suggests, a case management nurse is a qualified nurse who manages specific patient cases. A Case Management Nurse focuses mainly on planning and managing all aspects of patient care and services for her assigned cases. This ensures will facilitate and coordinate all aspects of health care required by their patients for a complete and speedy recovery.
A case management nurse will work will the patient and his family to fulfill the following objectives:
• Help the patient and the families understand all aspects of the care required and have reasonable goals and expectations from the outcome of the treatment.
• Assess and monitor the progress of the patient from the given treatment.
• Ensure coordination and continuation between different kinds of treatment from different health professionals
• Ensure availability and coordination of any care or service required by the patient in the course of their treatment.
• Educate the patient and the family in their form of affliction and help avoid recurrence, if possible and provide medical information to help them understand the patient’s condition, chances of recovery, etc.
On the other hand, case management nurses do not make diagnoses themselves, nor do they personally recommend any form of treatment. This is done by qualified health experts like surgeons, physicians, medical specialists, etc. However, once the diagnosis is complete and the form of treatment decided upon, a case management nurse will work in close collaboration with the patient’s family and health care professionals to coordinate and manage all aspects of that patient’s care. Their role is to primarily ensure that the patient gets the correct treatment required and to assess their condition and monitor their recovery.
The services of a case management nurse are required in long term treatment that requires a lot of coordination. For example, in the case of a cancer patient, the progress needs to be monitored continuously for any developing complications and different aspects of the treatment like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, etc. have to be coordinated in a timely manner.
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