By Edna B. Clifton, MBA, BSN, RN Moving forward on your career path takes careful planning to match the educational plan to your professional goals. if you don’t have a clear focus, it is often difficult to really know where you want to go on your journey. One helpful...
A recent literature review on case management and care management reignited my call to action for research about case management practice. My goal is to construct a mosaic that depicts arenas where case management is practiced. One of these arenas was in the community...
By Janet Coulter, MSN, MS, RN COVID-19 remains a major public health concern. As health care professionals, we stay up to date on the latest data and treatments. But what about the public? Does the general public have an understanding of the basics regarding...
By Kathy J Barrows, RN, BSN, CCM I was a complex case manager, blessed to work with a patient who was diligently managing his diabetes the best he could. Unfortunately, he was a very brittle diabetic whose blood sugar would spike and drop unpredictably, despite his...
By Craig Boguslawski, RN, CCM We Need to Breathe (and We Need to Breathe Oxygen to Live) COVID-19 has caused many infected people to develop hypoxia. An assessment of persons with dyspnea after covid frequently have a low oxygen saturation via pulse oximeter and are...
As a native Louisianian, Cajun & Creole cooking is in my DNA and one of my favorite pastimes. There is an old saying from my hometown, “Children learn to cook before they read a book”. I guess that can be interpreted several ways, but our family’s meaning is that...
