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Medical Case Management: Coordinating Safe and Effective Care

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Medical Case Management: Coordinating Safe and Effective Care.

Nurse case manager at a coordination desk reviewing a printed discharge plan beside a computer
Contact hours
4
Format
Self-paced, online
Last reviewed
Sep 19, 2026

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$5 per contact hour · 4 contact hours

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Course Purpose

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Medical Case Management: Coordinating Safe and Effective Care.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 4 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Medical Case Management: Coordinating Safe and Effective Care.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

  1. Describe the required elements of a hospital discharge planning process, including early identification, timely evaluation, documentation and re-evaluation.
  2. Distinguish nursing case management activities from prescriber, payer and level-of-care decisions when a plan and the orders no longer match.
  3. Explain what information must accompany a patient at transfer and how to confirm that a receiving clinician actually received it.
  4. Compare nursing facility baseline and comprehensive care plan requirements with home health plan of care requirements.
  5. Identify medication continuity risks at transitions and route discrepancies with the specificity a prescriber needs to act.
  6. Apply the five social determinant domains to test whether a discharge plan's practical assumptions hold for a specific patient.
  7. Apply the minimum necessary standard, including its treatment exception, to disclosures made to treating and non-treating recipients.
  8. Prioritise a case management caseload and use required periodic plan review to identify predictable coordination failures.

Policy Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the policies of FastCEForLess.com. This course should be used for informational purposes only and should not be used to diagnose, treat, prescribe, recommend, or initiate therapies or treatments in any setting. This course is copyrighted by Fast CE For Less, Inc. and may not be replicated, copied, or dispersed without written consent.

Disclosures

Fast CE For Less, Inc. and its authors have no disclosures. There is no commercial support.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Medical Case Management: Coordinating Safe and Effective Care.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

  1. 1

    Course overview and learning objectives

  2. 2

    Introduction

  3. 3

    What medical case management is, and what it is not

  4. 4

    Screening, risk identification and the discharge planning evaluation

  5. 5

    Transitions of care: what must travel with the patient

  6. 6

    Care planning in post-acute settings: nursing facility and home health

  7. 7

    Medication continuity across transitions

  8. 8

    Social needs, community resources and the limits of referral

  9. 9

    Information sharing, privacy and the minimum necessary standard

  10. 10

    Caseload practice: prioritisation, follow-through and quality review

  11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

  12. 12

    Conclusion

References

The full reference list is included inside the course, after the Conclusion.

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