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Case Management Focus: What If?
Case Management Focus: What If?

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Case managers are problem solvers. When they see a problem, they brainstorm with the team to think of ways to address the challenges they are seeing and develop a plan to […]
Case Management Focus: Questions and Tips to Improve Your Documentation!
Case Management Focus: Questions and Tips to Improve Your Documentation!

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The importance of documentation cannot be overemphasized. In this post, I wanted to share some questions and tips on documentation. As nurse case managers, we learned about documentation during our training, […]
Case Management Focus: Resources — The Key to Successful Case Management  
Case Management Focus: Resources — The Key to Successful Case Management  

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A Nurse Case Manager's greatest challenge is finding resources for their patient and their families that don’t fall under traditional insurance. Learning about these resources is a job unto itself, so […]
Case Management Focus: The Case Manager’s Role in Working with Patients Who Suffer Limb Loss
Case Management Focus: The Case Manager’s Role in Working with Patients Who Suffer Limb Loss

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop by Hanger Clinic on Upper Extremity Limb Loss. The workshop speakers discussed the advances in prosthetics that are helping people […]
Case Management Focus: Does Your Mother Know What You Do?
Case Management Focus: Does Your Mother Know What You Do?

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Does Your Mother Know What You Do is a common question in case management circles because we can't understand why no one recognizes our work. Not even our families! I am […]
Case Management Focus: Insight Into Ethics
Case Management Focus: Insight Into Ethics

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Case Managers are held to ethical principles according to their discipline and case management certification. In this column, I talk to Deb Schuelke, Director of Case Management from Forza Care about […]
Case Management Focus: Who’s Your Client?
Case Management Focus: Who’s Your Client?

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- At a worker's compensation conference last week, the speaker talked about who case managers are loyal to or who is the client. People called out different people: the adjustor, the employer, […]
Case Management Focus: Case Managers Spin Gold
Case Management Focus: Case Managers Spin Gold

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Workers' Compensation case managers help "put people back together" after a work injury or a complex medical condition that turns their life upside down. At a recent conference, one of the […]