Question

Case Management: Understand how to assess, prioritize and provide interventions for these concepts-

Adherence to Medication and Treatment plan: Guiding/Teaching/Assessing

Complementary and Alternative Therapies: Guiding patients on use

Therapeutic Communication with Patients and Family and Healthcare Providers

Cultural Care (Remember 4 cs and interventions)

Case Management Process and implementing change (motivational interviewing, change process with precontemplation to maintenance).

Case Management Initial Assessment

Health Coaching.

Answer 1

Ans.) Adherence to Medication and Treatment plan - It is a global initiative launched in 2001 by the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster of the World Health Organization.It aims to the policy-makers and health managers who have the influnce on national and local policies which benefits patients, health systems and societies with better health practices.

Complementary and Alternative Therapies - Complementary and alternative medicine is the medical products and practices that are not part of standard medical procedure.

Therapeutic Communication with Patients and Family and Healthcare Providers - Effective therapeutic communication is very essential to the delivery of high-quality, safe and integrated health care. Research shows that a good communication with patients, their family and healthcare providers results in increased patient satisfaction, treatment adherence, increased practitioner job satisfaction and, most important, better patient treaetment.

Case Management Process and implementing change (motivational interviewing, change process with precontemplation to maintenance) - Case management is a organized and coordinated network of formal and informal activities, services, and supports designed to optimize the well being of a person.It includes psychological & emotional interviewing, improvent of the process with precontemplation to maintenance)

Case Management Initial Assessment - Initial assessment has a major influence on the results and tracking the data and data from start to finish is extremely critical to for the continuous quality improvement. However, filling a 23-page form is quite challenging as sometimes the case manager’s distracted away from the dialog with the client. at the time of filling the form. In addition, it is a full time job of an emplooyes to arrange and keep a check on those of data.

Health Coaching - Health coaching, is a complete procedure to improve and facilitates a healthy, sustainable behaviorial change by challenging a client to listen to their inner wisdom, identify their values, and transform their goals into action.