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fox · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

The case manager works with a 10-year-old girl who has asthma. Because the client's family has trouble affording inhalers, the case manager researches client assistance programs through which they could receive free medications.

This aspect of case management is known as:
A) Care management
B) Advocacy
C) Disease management
D) Interdisciplinary collaboration

Question 2

The case manager works with a client who has type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In this role, which actions should the nurse take in managing the client's diseases? (Select all that apply.)

A) Provide weekly coaching sessions by telephone for blood glucose management.
B) Supervise cardiac stress tests in the exercise room of the local hospital.
C) Administer emergency insulin when the client arrives at the hospital in a diabetic coma.
D) Demonstrate use of a glucose meter to the client.
E) Review heart-healthy and diabetic-friendly food options with the client and his family.

dantucker · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
Feedback:
Advocacy is always moving the needs of clients, families, and communities to a point of awareness that will advance change and increase quality of a life and experience. Care management is the coordination of a plan or process to bring health services together as a common whole in a cost-effective way. Disease management is a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for groups of people with conditions in which client self-care efforts are significant. Disease management emphasizes prevention at the secondary and tertiary level using evidence-based practice guidelines. Interdisciplinary collaboration is sharing of evidence-based practice and skills by several disciplines as an integration strategy with clients and families in homes and other healthcare settings.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A, D, E
Feedback:
Disease management often focuses on chronic illness such as heart disease, heart failure, diabetes, pulmonary disease, urinary incontinence, and asthma. In disease management programs, in addition to medications, there is strong emphasis on the use of telephone coaching, Internet resources, and intensive client and family teaching to advance self-care and adherence to wellness care. Recently, to help clients and families manage their health problems in an effective and efficient manner, there has been an effort to bundle disease states together in light of many comorbidity patterns. Supervising a cardiac stress test and administering emergency glucose are clinical interventions that go beyond basic disease management.