Any Disease Management Nurses

[renerian, BSN, RN]

I looked for a topic for this type of nurse. It is really not case management as the program I have looked at is an elective program for an insurance holder to try to educate them to keep their health care costs down. I am enrolled in one myself for asthma and like the extra information I get on latest this and that. I

Does anyone do that type of nursing here ?

Has anyone been in the program as a client and did you like it?

renerian

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

The facility I work in has a disease management nurse or ID (infectious disease) nurse. She works on our problems with scabies, VRE, pressure wounds, UTI's, isolation issues, HIV, etc. and presents education for staff and accesses information for the docs and talks to the county and state ID docs. This nurse is also the nurse aide educator. The facility is sub-acute, alzheimers, dementia behavior, and personal care; consists of 9 units and 325 beds, 8 units are locked.

As one of the reference nurses I am able to assist her at times. My background is ICU/CCU/ER/Trauma/specialty flight team/neuro-neuro trauma.

[renerian, BSN, RN]

Snowfreeze thanks for replying. I think the telephonic disease management specialty is really now just coming to light. I probaby should have put it with the case management forum..I don't know now to move the thread. I think only a mod can do that?

Can any moderator help me move this thread to the case manager forum?

Thanks for helping me,

renerian