Essential skills necessary for case managers include
1. Communication, teaching, and advocacy.
2. Economic reasoning, lobbying, and fiscal responsibility.
3. Information manager, intensivist, and technology utilization.
4. Principles of pharmacodynamics, physical assessment, and laboratory analysis.
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