Adopting Guided Care

Primary care practices can fully implement Guided Care in six to nine months, primarily by hiring a registered nurse who has a Certificate in Guided Care Nursing and integrating the nurse into the practice. Through a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation, three forms of technical assistance are available for free to organizations in the United States that plan to implement the Guided Care model or the principles of Guided Care to develop into patient-centered medical homes or accountable care organizations.

1. Implementation Manual for Practices. Guided Care: A New Nurse-Physician Partnership in Chronic Care? is an implementation manual for practices that want to adopt Guided Care. This book provides detailed, practical information and advice on assessing practice readiness, preparing to launch, providing and financing Guided Care. To request a free book, send an email to guided@jhsph.edu that summarizes your transformation plans.
   
   
2. Introductory guide book for patients and their families. Transformation: A Family's Guide to Chronic Care, Guided Care, and Hope by Tom Grundner, Ed.D., is a short book that describes to chronically ill patients and their families what Guided Care is and how it can help them. It is not the standard "patient education" book! To request a free book, send an email to guided@jhsph.edu that summarizes your transformation plans.
   
   
3. Online course: Guided Care Nursing. This 6-week, 40-hour, web-based course prepares registered nurses to become Guided Care Nurses. It features core and supplemental modules, live webinars and simulations, and support from expert faculty from the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing. After passing an online exam, the nurse receives a ?Certificate in Guided Care Nursing? from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Scholarships are available to registered nurses; each scholarship covers the full course tuition and ANCC's exam leading to the Certificate in Guided Care Nursing. Scholarship recipients will also receive for free the implementation manual and two copies of the book for patients and families. For more details, please visit www.ijhn.jhmi.edu (see "Upcoming Programs" near the upper left corner) or read flyer.
   
   
4. Online course: Practice Leaders in Medical Homes. This asynchronous, online, CME-eligible, 9-module course provides physicians, practice administrators, and other practice leaders with an awareness of competencies that facilitate effective physician practice within medical homes. Tuition is $15 US per module. Physicians will receive a certificate and one CME credit per 1-hour module. The course is offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For details, see flyer or click here.

Organizations are required to obtain a license from Johns Hopkins University in order to use the Guided Care model and use the service mark "Guided Care" in promotional materials to sell services, to enhance web presence, and for similar purposes.

A Guided Care Chronic Care Management Toolkit is now available that includes the Guided Care license, an implementation manual, 25 booklets for patients and families, one registration in the Guided Care Nursing online course, three registrations in the Practice Leaders in Medical Homes online course, and one hour of telephone consultation.