Which activity best reflects the role of the mental health nurse case manager?
a. Advocating for the patient in all aspects of care
b. Attending to the patient's physical and emotional needs
c. Acting as the leader of a patient's multidisciplinary care team
d. Assuming responsibility for maintaining the patient's mental health records
ANS: C
Case management facilitates and promotes the coordination of patient care, thereby minimiz-ing the fragmentation of treatment which is a major factor in the relapsing of the patient's symptomology. The other options are roles of the case manager but they lack the attention to the basic concept of integrated, focused, and supervised care of the patient.
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