In today’s health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent. It’s an effective way to improve quality and outcomes. Nurses are integral to this process, yet most feel their contributions are unrecognized and underappreciated. What can nurses do?

This book helps today’s nurses reclaim this critical practice domain. It explores key issues in care coordination and offers timely, strategic actions nurses can take right now to identify opportunities and overcome barriers. It also includes critical resources for nurse care coordinators.

This book will help you:


Understand care coordination – past, present, and future – as well as the professional and practice environments in which it occurs.
Define the activities associated with effective care coordination.
Recognize the significant need for care coordination and opportunities for nurses.
Identify and explore issues pivotal to creating new inroads for nursing to adapt and advance this important work.
Expand the capacity of nurses to deliver care coordination and develop new and better care coordination models.
Learn how you and your fellow nurses can advance your important role in care coordination in the current and emerging health care environment.

Care Coordination: A Blueprint for Action for RNs is the sequel to ANA's Care Coordination: The Game Changer - How Nursing is Revolutionizing Quality Care. In Blueprint, the authors take the previous book's in-depth coverage of issues and impact of nurse care coordination, and translate it into practical, strategic and actionable steps that all RNs can take right now to make a difference in this critical area of nursing practice.