Exploring Collaborative Practice in Healthcare Case Management

This case study examines the importance of case management and collaborative practice in healthcare settings. It highlights how collaborative practices, involving discussions with various stakeholders and sharing work, can improve organizational efficiency and patient outcomes. Examples of successful collaborations, such as a nurse-led memory clinic and partnerships between healthcare and mental health organizations, demonstrate the benefits of integrated care. The study also addresses challenges to effective case management, including fragmented processes, lack of holistic data, poor data quality, and limited IT involvement. The references provided offer further insights into technological collaboration, community health worker integration, and policy contexts relevant to case management practice.

Case ManagementNAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR NOTE

Case management
 Case Management revolves
around a lot of content instead of
that of an individual document
 It can improve the efficiency in
relation to the functioning of an
organisation

Role of collaborative practice
 Collaborative practice can help in facilitating discussion with the
various stakeholders
 It can help in the attaining of objective by sharing work with the
other people
 It can aid the case managers in advocating for the patient.

 Collaborative practice can help in getting positive outcome
 It can prove to be useful in sharing knowledge and for the
building of consensus
 It can help in bridging area of health along with social service

Example of successful
Collaboration
 Consultant Team, nursing
practitioner and the patient
worked together in Nurse-led-
memory clinic that helped in
solving the problem of the
patient pertaining to memory
issues.

 Australian Nursing Home
Foundation worked with the
Mental Health Foundation and
the Mental Health Australia that
helped in recovering the patient
who was suffering from the
cardiovascular disease and the
mental illness.

Challenges to be overcome
 The fragmented process creates
challenges in the path of case
management.
 Health care data is not perceived
in a holistic manner that creates
challenges in relation to
collaboration

 Poor quality of the data acts as a
challenge in identifying needs in
relation to the patient.
 The limited involvement of that
of Information Technology acts
like a challenge for collaboration
for that of case management.

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