Patricia McCollom
Patricia McCollom, RN, MS, CRRN, CDMS,
CCM, CLCP, is a President and Nurse Consultant for LifeCare
Economics, LTD., and Management Consulting & Rehabilitation
Services, Inc., and is CEO, International Academy of Life Care Planners,
Ankeny, Iowa. A graduate of the Master's Program in
Rehabilitation, Drake University, Ms. McCollom has extensive experience
in care of individuals with head trauma, spinal cord injury, and other
catastrophic injury. A Past National President of the Association
of Rehabilitation Nurses, and the former Chair of the National Task
Force on Case Management, she currently is the Chair of the
Commission for Case Manager Certification. At the national level,
she teaches case management practice and life care planning, Ms.
McCollom contributed the chapters on Case Management, Burn
Rehabilitation and Cancer Rehabilitation to the 2002 Mosby text Rehabilitation
Nursing, 3rd Edition and the section on Life Care Planning to the
1997 Advanced Rehabilitation Nursing Practice Core Curriculum,
published by ARN. She co-authored the section on Amputations in
the Mosby publication, Case Managment Clinical Practice Guidelines,
and the chapter on life care planning in the September 2000, F.A. Davis
text The Nurse and the Law, She is the editor of the Journal
of Life Care Planning.
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