Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has been long overlooked and, for the public, largely misunderstood: that of the nurse manager. Like ...

The Nurse Management of Care Transitions specialty track prepares nurses at the master’s level to improve health outcomes through clinical coordination and management of patient care transitions both ...

Many aging adults face challenges managing daily tasks and medical needs, increasing the demand for specialized care. Nurse care management helps prevent medical errors, ensures appropriate care, and ...

Patients with complex illness face a bewildering array of specialty and primary care providers, as well as home and long-term care services and supports. Care arrangements may be especially confusing ...

Care managers do a lot. Their job is to reduce treatment costs and hospitalization rates, eliminate unnecessary and redundant testing, prevent adverse medication interactions and boost patients’ ...

Risk-stratified care management is a cornerstone of patient-centered medical home models, but studies on patients’ perspectives of it are scarce. We explored patients’ experiences with care management ...

This study’s investigators explored the importance of maintaining relational foundations between nurses and patients during public health emergencies.

Many of us are probably unfamiliar with the concept of care managers. That may be because geriatric care management is not a clear-cut, licensed profession like nursing or social work. Further, they ...

Taking care of an aging loved one can be challenging, especially when their care needs exceed what you can reasonably manage. However, a geriatric care manager may be uniquely positioned to help you ...

El Camino Health serves residents in the San Francisco Bay Area with two not-for-profit acute care hospitals in Los Gatos and Mountain View. The health system also includes 19 clinics. Like so many ...

She had no idea what was coming. But that was OK, Melissa Takata thought. Because uncertainty is standard in her professional life. She’d worked as a nurse for 23 years, starting as a surgical nurse ...