BSN440 Full Course Latest 2019 April Question # 00602084 Course Code : BSN440 Subject: Education Due on: 06/08/2019 Posted On: 06/08/2019 11:06 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.7/5

BSN440 Case Management

Module 1 Discussion

You have
been hired as a consultant by a hospital that is going to begin using case
managers in the acute, home care, and primary care settings. You meet with the
vice president (VP) of patient services. She tells you that the hospital tried
to use case managers 3 years ago, and the project failed. She believes one of
the major reasons it failed is because there was no clear position description
or role description that was understood by the staff. She would like you to
help develop an effective nurse case manager position description.

1. Discuss
the differing roles of the nurse case manager.

2. Identify
the skills needed for a nurse to enter the case manager role.

3. Describe
the role of the nurse case manager in acute, home care, and primary care
settings.

You must
use at least 2 scholarly references to support your answer.

DQ2 Identify
at least 3 local (in your community) and 3 national referral sources for
helping people deal with:

Relationship
issues

Family
responsibilities, e.g., need for eldercare, child-care assistance,
transportation

Health
problems

Select one
local agency to contact for further information on its services and referral
system. Provide a summary of what you
learned about this agency and how the agency helps people.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 2 Discussion

Explain how
the concept continuum of care is used in case management. Provide an example of how this concept is
used in practice or within your organization.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 3 Discussion

DQ1 How do
healthcare exchanges change the concept of outpatient treatment?

DQ2 What is
your opinion of linking hospital reimbursement to performance outcomes? Cite
the literature.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 4 Discussion

What are
some of the approaches case managers use to promote the highest quality of care
with careful use of resources? How can
palliative care and hospice service assist this strategy?

BSN440 Case Management

Module 5 Discussion

DQ1 What
new services/programs is your organization currently evaluating or performing
that are assisting patients to reach their health goals? How does this impact the bottom line of the
organization?

DQ2 There
are a number of components of quality indicators: accessibility,
appropriateness, continuity, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, timeliness,
patient perspective issues, and safety of care environment. Take one of these
components and start a discussion.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 6 Discussion

Many
clinical information systems now embed practice guidelines and clinical
pathways into their electronic medical record systems. What are some of the
advantages and disadvantages of this?

BSN440 Case Management

Module 7 Discussion

What is
demand management and how does it increase consumer involvement in
healthcare? What is disease
management? How can disease management
be used to further increase consumer involvement in their healthcare?

BSN440 Case Management

Module 8 Discussion

DQ1 Have
you or have you known a close friend or relative who has used case management
services in the acute, primary, or home care settings? Briefly describe the process. Reflect on the learning in this course. Would you change any of the process based on
your learning in this course? Why or why
not? Include a minimum of 2 scholarly
references to support your answer.

DQ2 Would
you consider a career as a case manager? Why or why not? Include a minimum of 2 scholarly references
to support your answer.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 2 Assignment 1

Choose one
of the following chronic diseases. You
will use the chosen chronic disease as the topic to address in each of the
assignments in this course.

Hypertension

Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease

Diabetes
Mellitus Type 2

Childhood
asthma

You must
use a minimum of two scholarly sources.
This paper should be 4-5 pages in
length.

In
Assignment One you will:

Illustrate
the population. Who are the members of
this population? Provide details,
including contributing causes for the disease and/or past medical history, any
familial or genetic components for the disease.

Evaluate
the population, including current numbers, the seriousness of the disease,
special needs to optimize health and independence.

Assess the
need for formal case management. What
are the current trends in case management (as discussed in your text) that
support a case management model?

Argue the
potential benefits to implementing a case management model, addressing
economics, quality or life/care of the patient, impact on the social life of
the patient and family.

Analyze why
nurses should coordinate the case management plan of care? Based upon best practice, what specialized
training and experiences would a nurse bring to this role?

Identify
the other members that should be included on a multidisciplinary case
management team and discuss what their role is and why they are valuable
members.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 4 Assignment 2

In this
assignment, you will be exploring the use of evidence-based practice and how it
is incorporated into case management patient care guidelines, and pathways
based on your chosen chronic illness from assignment one. You will identify and discuss current best
practices, recommended published guidelines for treating or addressing the
illness, and describe how clinical pathways help to address the importance of
basing case management on current practice.

Provide
support from a minimum of two scholarly sources. Paper should be 4-5 pages in length.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 6 Assignment 3

For
assignment 3, you will enter Sentinel World® where you will conduct a Family
Support Assessment. In addition, you
will create a Discharge Plan based on your family assessment. Submit the completed Family Assessment and
Discharge Plan documents for grading under assignment 3.

Enter
Sentinel World® and click the map to locate the Health Department or use the
direct link under Sentinel World® at the top of the course home page for
Assessments. Complete the Family Support
Assessment Form by asking the client predetermined questions. When you have completed the assessment, click
on Save and Review to view a PDF document of your assessment. Click on the down
arrow in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and save your document to
your files.

You will
create a fictitious patient based on your family assessment and use the
attached Discharge Plan Template document to create a discharge plan for that
patient. Save the Discharge Plan
Template to your files. You can type
right into the document, save it, and submit for grading. You are to complete all sections of the
discharge plan: assessment,
diagnosis/plan, education needs, financial worksheet, and the reflection and
conclusion. You need to be as detailed
as possible in filling out all the boxes. The reflection and conclusion section
allows you to summarize the patient’s plan of care based on all proceeding
information and to make recommendations for the plan of care for the
patient. Reflect on what you learned in
this assignment. What do you think about
using this discharge plan, did it help you to consider areas you might not have
previously included in a discharge plan?
Please follow the Example Discharge Plan provided for your
guidance.

BSN440 Case Management

Module 7 Final Project

Having
learned more about case management through the readings in this course and
first three assignments, for the final project you are creating a plan to
implement case management at your workplace.
For the first section of the rubric, what is your recommended plan for
the use of case managers in your organization for patients with your chosen
chronic illness from assignment one? In
the second section, identify people within your organization who are
stakeholders or would support your plan.
Whose support do you need to get your plan implemented? In the third section, identify your goals –
what do you hope to accomplish with your case management plan?

Often,
starting with our goals helps – it’s a backwards design. As we think about a case management plan we
are proposing for our workplace, what do we want to accomplish? Remember – goals should be measurable. For example, if the chosen chronic disease is
diabetes, one goal may be:

Clients
will have decreased incidences of hyperglycemia requiring hospitalization

Once we
determine what we want to accomplish, we can begin to construct our plan to
achieve the goal. To achieve this goal,
our plan may include providing education in a manner the client can understand
(being sensitive to cultural needs), access to phone support, or inputting
glucose readings into their electronic health record for documentation the case
manager can evaluate and use to reach out to the client.

To put this
plan in action, whose support would we need?
Primary Care Physicians, Utilization Review personnel, and the Chief
Financial Officer would all have an interest in optimizing patient health and
reducing costs.

This paper
should be 6-9 pages in length with a minimum of three scholarly sources for
support.