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Now is a good time to be a case manager, leaders in the field report. New opportunities are opening up for case managers as the country struggles with ways to provide optimal health care for everyone while minimizing soaring costs for care.
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Case managers went to nursing school to take care of people, something they find themselves doing less and less in most practice settings, Catherine Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, points out.
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If an employee is newly diagnosed with diabetes, he or she would likely be able to obtain a significant amount of resources for prevention, screening, and treatment of this condition. Would this also be true if that employee suffered from depression?
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Since employees with medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer often have co-morbid mental conditions, it makes sense to screen these workers for depression, says Nancy W. Spangler, MS, OTR/L, a consultant to the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health and president of Leawood, KS-based Spangler Associates Inc.
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Avoid trouble with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) by never doing any of the following things after a worksite injury occurs, warns Mary (Penny) B. Nicholls, RN, CCM, COHN-S, a disability consultant with Alabama Power Company in Birmingham and a member of the advisory board for the Deep South Center for Occupational Health & Safety at the University of Alabama at Birmingham:
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These days, many workers have a high amount of anxiety over job security, with good reason. Now, a new study shows this poses a major threat to worker health.
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Case managers are more experienced and are putting in longer hours than ever before, but aren't necessarily getting more compensation for it, according to the results of the 2009 Case Management Advisor Salary Survey.
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This is the first part of a two-part series about best practices in palliative care programs.
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Although there are no rules or regulations for palliative care programs that require the collection of visit data, the staff at Four Seasons, a hospice and palliative care agency in Flat Rock, NC, collect information on everything from pain scores to clinical information to progress notes.
