Course Overview
Emphasizes decision making that promotes the fitness to work of individual employees experiencing health challenges. The focus will be on the OHN’s role as a case manager using an employee-centered approach and collaborating with the supervisor, management, union, the health and safety team, insurance carriers, and health care providers. The goal of this collaboration will be to achieve the best-possible individual and organizational outcomes.
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Learning Outcomes
As licensed health care practitioners, all learners will practice in accordance with professional standards of practice throughout the course. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop competence as a case manager.
- Appreciate the importance of an employee’s own perception of his/her health.
- Integrate understanding of the needs of the organization with the disability case management process.
- Make case management decisions that are based on a systematic approach to inquiry.
- Develop communication strategies that will enhance a collaborative approach while ensuring the confidentiality of employee personal health information.
- Identify and mitigate medical personal and work-related barriers to the safe, early and durable return to work of injured and ill employees.
- Develop communication strategies that will enhance a collaborative approach while ensuring the confidentiality of employee personal health information.
- Recognize the factors related to disability case management that lead to ethical challenges and develop strategies to enhance competence.
Effective as of Fall 2019
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