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6.​ Client Education : LPNs educate clients and families about treatment plans, medications, and self-care strategies. 7.​ Documentation : LPNs maintain accurate and up-to-date records of client assessments, interventions, and outcomes, ensuring continuity of care. 8.​ Advocacy : LPNs advocate for clients' needs and preferences, ensuring they receive appropriate care and services. Case Management Case Managers are nurses that specialize in care coordination and organize client care, collaborating with healthcare providers to ensure that clients receive the services they need in a timely and cost-effective manner. Case managers also advise clients, ensuring they have access to all necessary resources to improve their health . The case manager utilizes the critical pathway approach to provide safe and cost-effective individual care to each client. Critical pathways, also known as clinical pathways or clinical maps, are management plans that display goals for clients and provide the sequence and timing of actions necessary to achieve these goals with optimal efficiency. LPNs play a significant role in both direct client care and case management. In general, LPNs conduct more direct care than RNs, but within that role, many are also performing case management functions such as assessments, care planning, collaboration with other healthcare team members, and follow-ups. LPNs regularly assist RN Case Managers with their caseloads, particularly during busy periods. Work is often carried out in teams in a collaborative, negotiated environment. Nursing Models Below are the 4 standard nursing models used in today's healthcare environment. Each model is tailored to meet the needs of the individual client and the population receiving care. Nurses can take a holistic approach to providing care through these models while ensuring client safety and cost containment. 1.​ Primary Nursing : Primary Nursing is a relationship-based practice where the Registered Nurse (RN) actively provides total client care. This approach is very labor-intensive and requires an appropriate amount of nurses. Organizations that utilize the primary nursing model do not employ LPNs. 2.​ Team Nursing : Team Nursing is a model that consists of a team leader providing some client care while delegating specific tasks to other nursing members, including unlicensed assistive personnel. All Team members are working with the same plan of care to achieve the same goals and outcomes. 3.​ Total Care : Total Care is a client-focused or case-method nursing model in which one RN is responsible for all aspects of a client's care. This model does not utilize LPNs or unlicensed assistive personnel in the acute care setting.

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