Managed care : practice stategies for nursing / / Margaret M. Conger with contributors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813085503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London : , : SAGE, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 0-7619-0964-8; 1-4522-3765-4; 1-322-41254-5; 1-4522-2110-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): CongerMarge
• Disciplina: 362.173068
• Soggetti: Nursing - Effect of managed care on; Nursing - Practice
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface: ""Old Wine in New Wine Skins""; Acknowledgments; Part I - Managed Care Environment; Preface: Introduction to Managed Care Strategies; Chapter 1 - Health Care Reform: An Opportunity for Nursing; Chapter 2 - Managed Care Organizational Structures; Chapter 3 - Managed Care Organizational Strategies used to Achieve Organizational Goals; Chapter 4 - Nursing Involvement in Quality of Care Issues; Chapter 5 - Nursing Case Management: A Managed Care Organizational Strategy; Part II - Nursing Strategies in Acute-Care Hospitals; Chapter 6 - Use of Nurse Extenders; Chapter 7 - Advanced Practice Nurses: Acute-Care Settings; Chapter 8 - Nurse Case Management: Acute-Care Hospital Practice; Chapter 9 - Automated Clinical Pathways in the Patient Record:Legal Implications; Chapter 10 - Clinical Pathway Outcome Research; Part III - Nursing Strategies in Community Settings; Chapter 11 - Nurse Case Management in Community Settings; Chapter 12 - Population-Based Nurse Case Management; Chapter 13 - Advanced Practice Nurses as Case Managers; Chapter 14 - Advanced Practice Roles in Community Settings: Community Health Clinics; Chapter 15 - Advanced Nurse ; Collaborative Practice in a Primary Care Setting; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The subject of Managed Care is the dramatic impact that such care has on patients and nurses and the inevitable changes that it brings to nursing care and nursing as a profession.