Case managers drive care integration.
Nurse leaders at an urban Level 1 trauma facility integrate patient-care departments for a case-management system that works.
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Nurse leaders at an urban Level 1 trauma facility integrate patient-care departments for a case-management system that works.
Trauma center nurses joined forces with their city's leaders and organizations to address juvenile violence and crime. Metropolitan Partners Against Crime's primary initiatives focus on overcoming race, class and gender variances and establishing community awareness programs.
An interdisciplinary documentation tool provides a composite of all of the planning activities that occur relative to each individual patient and his/her family before discharge. In response to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's mandate, this tool evolved into a "Continuum of Care" model. Now, all disciplines maintain a patient's continuity of care.