Question

Describe the components of a case-management system used in population-based nursing.

Answer 1

case management system is a care delivery model designed to coordinate and manage patient care across the continum of health care system.It is a dynamic and systematic collaborative approach to provide and coordinate health care services to a defined population.

The four components of case management system are;

• intake; which means the first meeting of a case manager with a new client and taking informations regarding their health, problems and identifying the key repsonsibility of a nurse to that patient. This first meeting helps the case manager to identify how the patient can receive the best care while they are at the health care facility.
• need assessment;builds on the information collected during the intake.Here, the case manager identfies the problems. analyse it and check any risks to success.
• service planning;it is important to thw success or failure of the client.The case manager establish specific goals and actions to meet this goals.it should be both achievable and measurable.
• monitoring and evaluation; based on the informations availavble through the previous stages,the case manager should continuosly monitor an evaluate the cleints progress.continuous monitoring will help to achieve the desired outcomes.