Nurse case management in the 21st century / Elaine L. Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
1. The new practice environment;
2. Nurses as advanced practitioners and primary care providers;
3. Grass roots efforts - nurses involved in the political process;
4. Nursing's response to health-care transformation - a nurse executive's view;
5. Academia's involvement in health-care redesign;
6. Key elements of nurse case management in curricula;
7. The education of nurses - nurse case manager's view;
8. The denver nursing education project - promoting the health of persons living with hiv/aids;
9. Academic nursing centres and community-based nursing information systems;
10. Case management in community nursing centres;
11. Integrating systems across the continuum;
12. Innovative delivery systems;
13. Freedom, trust, caring; theory of the nurse-client parnership;
14. Working in partnership;
15. Nurse case management in a rural community;
16. Parish nursing;
17. Nurse case management in long-term care;
18. Case management as a response to quality, cost, and access imperatives;
19. Risk identification - management versus avoidance;
20. Issues of design and implementation from acute care, long-term care and community-based settings;
21. Staff development for nurse case management;
22. Marketing nurse case management in rural community hospitals;
23. Differentiated practice within and beyond the hospital walls;
24. The influence of reimbursement on nurse case management practice - carondelet's experience;
25. Discovering and achieving client outcomes.