CMSA Today - Issue 4, 2021

ASSOCIATION NEWS

THE JOURNEY IS ONGOING AND NEVER REALLY OVER Case managers are life-long learn ers, and CMSA not only supports the case manager early in their career but throughout. CMSA brings educa tional programs that provide innova tions and best practices, helping case managers stay on top of trends and provide CEs to support accreditation. VISIT CMSA.ORG : Discover additional resources and training including: • Over 130 accredited courses and recorded webinars in the CMSA Educational Resource Library • Monthly live webinars on diverse topics to keep up on current trends • Member-submitted resources housed in the CM Toolbox • Guidance specific to case man agers in the assessment, care planning, and intervention devel opment for the individual chal lenges with opioid use disorder in the Opioid Use Disorder Case Management Guide • Coming soon! Caseload Calculator tool available Summer 2021. CMSA is committed to support ing you in at every destination and throughout your entire professional journey. Visit www.cmsa.org to find out more!

RESOURCE: comMIt : Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training for Health Care Professionals. This is an 8-hour online course that centers around motiva tional interviewing, which is an evidence based, effective method for improving adherence to health behaviors.

As part of growth and enhancement of communication skills, case managers can support their patients/clients in adhering to treatment and making different health behavior decisions by taking advantage of one in-demand skillset – motivational interviewing

As case managers continue their jour ney, seeking more of the desired in demand skillsets, information about how to better support patients can be found. Resources and best practices to support adherence, patient engagement and acti vation, patient-centered care, medication

financial resources and assessment of SDoH are necessary. RESOURCE: Case Management Adherence Guide 2020: This adherence guide will be published with a compan ion webinar series. Release date – Late Summer 2021 .

At this point in the journey, case man agers have experience and feel reasonably confident in their abilities, but there is always more to learn. And there are those patients/ clients who challenge our abilities. They have multiple comorbid conditions, social chal lenges and perhaps behavioral conditions. They are in and out of the hospital and emergency department. The case manager is in need of enhanced engagement and retention strategies to improve the most complex and vulnerable adult and pediatric

populations. This destination provides the confidence and skills needed as the primary case manager for an individual, to address all their conditions, and coordinate all of their needs without any hand-offs to another professional. RESOURCE: Integrated Case Management Training Program : This course provides advanced skills in risk assessment, targeted care planning, and engagement and retention strategies. ICM is a 30-hour course of online and instructor-led training.

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CMSA TODAY

Issue 4 • 2021