Tap into the resource that brings together managers and directors nationwide to share strategies, insights, successes, and failures from inside the hospital walls and beyond. Hospital Case Management will give you an in-depth look at how your peers have attacked the development, implementation, and adaptation of case management programs. Each monthly issue features:

• the most effective tips and techniques for discharge and transition planning;
• practical, straightforward advice from your peers on decreasing costs, managing length of stay, improving documentation, streamlining systems, and improving patient care;
• caseload/staffing data and sample job descriptions;
• outcomes measurement and management strategies that you can put to work today;
• tools and resources such as "Case Management Insider," written by Toni G. Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, hitting the hot topics case managers face such as preventing readmissions, discharge planning, and working across the care continuum;
• updates on the latest requirements from The Joint Commission and guidelines you can use to ensure compliance.

A one-year subscription price including at least 12 issues per year. With your paid subscription, you'll also receive this recorded conference free: Case Management 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

View a sample PDF by clicking here: Hospital Case Management

View a listing of recent articles published: Hospital Case Management Index

Faculty: Consulting Editor: Toni G. Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Vice President, Operational Efficiency and Capacity Management, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

Objectives: The objectives of Hospital Case Management are to:

• Identify the particular clinical, administrative or regulatory issues related to the profession of case management;
• Describe how the clinical, administrative or regulatory issues particular to the profession of case management affect patients, case managers, hospitals or the healthcare industry at large; and
• Discuss solutions to the problems facing case managers based on independent recommendations from clinicians at individual institutions or other authorities.

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity is approved for 15 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 15 Contact Hours.

This activity is approved by the Commission for Case Manager Certification for 18 clock hours.

Nurses participate in this CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they’ve learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.

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