Your nurse manager has been observing your effectiveness as a care coordinator and recognizes the importance of educating other staff nurses in care coordination. Consequently, she has asked you to develop a presentation for your colleagues on care coordination basics. By providing them with basic information about the care coordination process, you will assist them in taking on an expanded role in helping to manage the care coordination process and improve patient outcomes in your community care center.
To prepare for this assessment, identify key factors nurses must consider to effectively participate in the care coordination process.
Develop a presentation for nursing colleagues highlighting the fundamental principles of care coordination. Include community resources, ethical issues, and policy issues that affect the coordination of care.
Requirements
• Outline effective strategies for collaborating with patients and their families to achieve desired health outcomes.
o Provide, for example, drug-specific educational interventions, cultural competence strategies.
o Include evidence that you have to support your selected strategies.
• Identify the aspects of change management that directly affect elements of the patient experience essential to the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.
• Explain the rationale for coordinated care plans based on ethical decision making.
o Consider the reasonable implications and consequences of an ethical approach to care and any underlying assumptions that may influence decision making.
• Identify the potential impact of specific health care policy provisions on outcomes and patient experiences.
o What are the logical implications and consequences of relevant policy provisions?
o What evidence do you have to support your conclusions?
• Raise awareness of the nurse’s vital role in the coordination and continuum of care. Stay focused on key issues of import with respect to the effects of resources, ethics, and policy on the provision of high-quality, patient-centered care.
Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your presentation