Introduction to Case Management

INTRODUCTION TO CASE MANAGEMENT
Introduction to case management
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Collaboration:
The members of the multidisciplinary team are physician, nurses, physiotherapists,
pharmacist, personal support worker, family members, relatives, and society people.
I will collaborate with the concerning physician, to get update on the current health status
and lab diagnosis. He will be consulted for prescribed medication and action plan to reduce the
p[progress of disease. I will collaborate with nurse to ensure that the HGB levels are regularly
monitored and the patient’s risk of fall is assessed. Further collaboration with the physiotherapist
is necessary to assist patient with mobilization needs and strengthening of the body movements
through exercises to help with activities of daily living (Brown et al., 2016). To help the family
and the patient financially, collaboration with social worker is necessary. The family members
and relatives may be involved to give enhanced emotional support to the client. They will be
provided with the knowledge of medication side effects and need of assisting the patient with on
time medication to prevent nausea and vomiting. Family members will be encouraged to provide
supportive and calm environment (Meguid et al., 2016).
I will update the all team members, about the patient by collecting feedback from the
patient and their family. Using the information, I will discuss directly with the nurses and the
physician to modify the care goals if needed and changes in medication. Further using the social
media app based system I can keep all the members regularly updated about the patient needs
and disease status, side effects of medication and input/output (Rolls et al., 2016).
Further nutritionist may be consulted for the client to have the proper diet. It may include
Iron rich diet to help reduce GI bleeding. Te fluid may be educated to have well balanced diet

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and maintain the fluid recommendations. It will help get relieve from the urinary incontinency
(Heffernan-Swingle et al., 2016).
Integrative case management:
Integrative case management is the process by which different range of health services is
effectively combined and integrated to provide the best and seamless service delivery to patient.
It is also client-centered process or system that fulfills all the unique needs of client with the
support of multi-professional team members (Vourlekis, 2017). Based on the review of the case
study of P.W, a 77 year old patient diagnosed with G.I bleed and indeterminate pulmonary
nodules, it has been found that she needs family support and empathy to effectively cope up with
her family members. Secondly, she is also in need of support from a physiotherapist and a social
workers who can assist her in daily life activities and meeting her financial needs to maintain her
health. As Mrs. P.W has been constantly experiencing health issues like swelling in the hands,
nausea and weakness, the support of a clinician is also important for her to control her
symptoms. Hence, all the above multi-professional groups need to collaborate, coordinate and
come together with shared goals to practice integrative case management service delivery.
The social worker, physician, family members and physiotherapist can engage in
integrated case management service delivery by following the principles of coordination,
collaboration and integration. As all the above members are working to address certain specific
need of Mrs. P.W., they need to come together and share information through appropriate
networks. This will make all members aware about the services or health care support that is
provided to client and this may also enable them to arrange a program that addresses common
client needs (Goodwin et al., 2015). This is an example of proper collaboration process to