Care Coordination: A Blueprint for Action for RNs (eBook)

In today’s health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent. It’s an effective way to improve quality and outcomes. Nurses are integral to this process, yet most feel their contributions are unrecognized and underappreciated. What can nurses do?

Care Coordination: A Blueprint for Action for RNs helps today’s nurses reclaim this critical practice domain. It explores key issues in care coordination and offers timely, strategic actions nurses can take right now to identify opportunities and overcome barriers. It also includes critical resources for nurse care coordinators.

This book will help you:

Understand care coordination – past, present, and future – as well as the professional and practice environments in which it occurs
Define the activities associated with effective care coordination
Recognize the significant need for care coordination and opportunities for nurses
Identify and explore issues pivotal to creating new inroads for nursing to adapt and advance this important work
Expand the capacity of nurses to deliver care coordination and develop new and better care coordination models
Learn how you and your fellow nurses can advance your important role in care coordination in the current and emerging health care environment
Care Coordination A Blueprint for Action for RNs is the sequel to ANA's Care Coordination: the Game Changer How Nursing is Revolutionizing Quality Care. In Blueprint, authors Lamb and Newhouse take Game Changer's in-depth coverage of issues and impact of nurse care coordination and translate it into "practical, strategic and actionable" steps that all RNs can take right now to make a difference in this critical area of nursing practice.

Nursing’s stellar history in care coordination demands a future role! Help move the dialogue forward. Order Care Coordination: A Blueprint for Action for RNs and Care Coordination: The Game Changer How Nursing is Revolutionizing Quality Care today!