Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Workers’ Comp
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PTSD typically starts with exposure to a critical incident. In order to meet the definition of PTSD, symptoms must last 30 days or more and disrupts normal life pursuits. It results from violation of expectations, deeply held beliefs, core beliefs such as belief in a just and fair world, need to trust others, self-esteem-self efficacy, and need for predictable and safe world.
Health Literacy’s Impact on Delayed Recovery
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This article is authored by guest blogger, Mariellen Blue, National Director of Case Management, Genex Services. Workers’ compensation professionals are seeing delayed recovery as an increased challenge in claims—as injured employees may not be progressing along a medically reasonable and expected time frame. However, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly why the delay is occurring in order to address the issue.
Catastrophic Case Management: Immediate coordinated response by clinical experts
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Most illnesses or injuries progress well with traditional case management services. However, a small percentage of cases require more intense and careful management. Early intervention and proper procedure are imperative in the treatment of catastrophically injured people. Clinical situations that require catastrophic case management are characterized by diagnosis, complexity of treatment, and high dollar exposure.
Healing Body and Soul
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Meet Dana Schwartz, RN, CCM. One of the unique advantages a case manager brings to a workers’ comp case is a holistic approach to treatment. This focus on the person, rather than the injury, is how Dana Schwartz has managed to return injured employees back to their jobs safely and efficiently throughout her exceptional 22-year career as a case manager.
Worksite Crisis Response
2 MIN READ
You don’t have to be physically injured to suffer a mental blow.
Making the Case for Nurse Case Managers
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Nurse case managers play an influential role in an injured worker’s recovery, but if someone asked you, “What do nurse case managers do?” in more detail, what would you say? For National Case Management Week, we spoke with Mitchell Nurse Case Managers, Donna Battle, RN, BSN; and Sandra Sanders, RN, BSN, and Mitchell Medical Director, Dr. Zenia Cortes who shared their thoughts on the field of workers’ compensation case management.
Five Initial Evaluation Issues That May Delay Return to Work
When there’s a return to work delay, practitioners often look for problems that occurred during the course of treatment. However, as Mariellen Blue, Genex’s National Director of Case Management Services, tells us in today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, you may have to go back a little further in the recovery plan to find the answer. Check out the five reasons why the initial evaluation may be the culprit.