Using Nursing Case Management to Improve Health Outcomes acknowledges nurses' preeminence as case managers and focuses on linking nursing th eory and practice to the role. It describes an emerging, holistic form of case management, which sees the case manager coordinating multidis ciplinary care as well as acting as a liaison for patients in a disjoi nted delivery system, looking after their welfare throughout the conti nuum of care while maintaining costs and minimizing return trips to ac ute facilities. The promotion of patient self-responsibility, wellness, and caring are integrated into the coordinator/financial overseer ro le of the case manager. Both the managerial and clinical functions of the case manager are addressed in this forward-looking book on an incr easingly important aspect of nursing and health care delivery.