A framework for interprofessional collaboration in case management

In Qubec, case management usually takes the form of a multidisciplinary team that includes social workers, nurses, and occupational therapists. The team we studied utilizes a hybrid type of case management (1), in which each case manager, in addition to the tasks related to his role as case manager, intervenes in his area of competence. For example, a nurse working as a case manager can also change bandages on minor wounds while doing home visit. However, this raises the question of how far the nurse should go. This situation poses a problem not only in terms of workload distribution between the professionals forming the team, but also in regards to the articulation of the intervention made by these professionals with the work done by others actors in the health care network

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