November is National Caregivers Month. So, in this post, I celebrate caregivers. If you are a caregiver, thank you for all you do. The call to be a caregiver can come at any age. Stats show us that most caregivers are adults, and most are women, but children and men...
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop by Hanger Clinic on Upper Extremity Limb Loss. The workshop discussed the advances in prosthetics that are helping people with upper-body limb loss get back to work and their lives. I was asked to...
At a meeting I attended a few weeks ago, Nancy Skinner shared a new program she was delivering. The title, Does Your Mother Know What You Do? This is a common question in case management circles because we can’t understand why no one recognizes our work. Not...
This week is officially designated National Case Management Week by the Case Management Society of America, the American Case Management Association, and the Commission for Case Management Certification. So keep Calm and Call the Case Manager! Case Management Week is...
A patient I have been working with passed away recently. She was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and could not tolerate the treatment, so she was put on hospice and passed away four months after her diagnosis. She died on September 20th. Reflecting on how things...
Last week, I attended the 23rd Annual Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia. The meeting involved high-level professionals who came together to figure out how to improve the population’s health. The sessions were engaging and thought-provoking....
I write about continuous learning and how important it is for all of us, the healthcare team, and patients. This week I am taking my own advice this week and attending the Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia. I will be back next week with an overview. You...
I started posting this Blog Post on September 11, 2015, as a reminder of what happened on September 11, 2001, and have posted it each year since. To remind you, coordinated terrorist groups led attacks against the United States in New York, Washington DC, and...
A friend shared this message on Facebook the other day, and I wanted to share it in this week’s Nurse Advocate Blog Post. Please read and share with your family, friends, and colleagues, as we all need an A-Team! Do you have an A-Team? I didn’t know how...
Over the next few weeks, kids are returning to school, and many professionals are returning from vacations and getting back to work. Looking back on my work history, September was the month I started a new job. Starting a new job or a new position within the same...
One of the lessons I learned over time is that my role as a case manager is to work myself out of a job by educating and empowering my patients to advocate for themselves. Doing this reinforces that when people have the tools they need, they are resilient and able to...
Today our world seems like it is upside down. Our news and social medical feeds reinforce this every day. Yet, I see a call for kindness, to treat others how we want to be treated and to help each other in times of trouble. This is a time for all of us to be kind! I...
I hope you are having a good summer. I am sharing links to my Summer Reading List and Professional Reading List so you have something to read as I am away for a few days. Take some time to review them and check out some books. I will be back next week! 2023 Summer...
I hope you are having a good summer! In this issue of Nurses Advocate, I wanted to share some of the books I have written over the past few years. These books speak to self-improvement, and the value nurses and case managers bring to the healthcare industry. As they...
I had a positive post planned for this week, but it is 10:47 pm, and I am waiting to hear from my lung cancer patient, who is currently in the hospital on the Hospice floor. So I am sharing another example of How The Health Care System is Built for The Healthcare...
You never know where scanning on social media will take you. Recently, I saw a post from a Patient Advocate colleague Lori Schellenberg that caught my eye. Her post said – the willingness to listen is the biggest and most important action we can take! I clicked...
One of the competencies case managers need to work on daily is being an educator. As case managers, we care for people of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures. Education must be geared to each person. In addition, people have different learning styles, such as; audio...
Welcome to the 2023 Summer Reading List. This year’s list is made up of a variety of books from family, friends and colleagues from Facebook and Linked In. There are individual books as well as series that were contributed by various people. I also added TV/Cable...
