117 Medical Office Case Study

When a patient scheduled an appointment, they arrived, and now you are waiting to be seen by the doctor for over 15 minutes. Or when you have the appointment, and you have waited in the lobby for about 20 minutes pass your appointment time to be seen by the doctor, you’re called inside the patient room, and from there you are still asked to wait on the doctor for over 15 minutes.

When starting your petty cash fund for your office, make sure you should put in enough cash that you are not replenishing it every other day. You should open it with at least fifty to one-hundred dollars, evaluate the amount for a while to see if you are replenishing before bills are being paid in the office. If this is the case then maybe you should add more cash so that the fund does not run out before the bills are due. Some offices will have a fund for One-hundred dollars up to one-thousand dollars, which ever suits your offices spending habits.

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

The patient should arrive 30 minutes prior to appointment time to allow enough time for the registration process.

Another way to alleviate the overcrowded schedule is by making patient appointments for every other time slot. If a patient calls in for an

In the case of Shahine vs. Louisiana State University Medical Center, the plaintiff Ms. Shahine experienced right ulnar nerve damage following a right total hip arthroplasty. She filed suit against the University Medical Center and her anesthesiologist, Dr. W for medical malpractice and requested the court to infer negligence under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Dr. W was fully responsible for Ms. Shahine’s care while she was under anesthesia and Ms. Shahine obviously could not assess the true cause of injury while she was anesthetized. However, Dr. W provided evidence of non-negligence by thoroughly charting in Ms. Shahine’s medical record proper positioning and padding. Another anesthesiologist provided the court with uncontroverted

The medical office waiting room: What is a reasonable period to keep a patient waiting?

I feel that Medical Assistant as well as Nurse’s need to understand where exactly the patient is coming from as far as wait times for patients. The patients have to wait in the waiting room and then be placed in a room to wait just as long as the waiting room. So, I don’t think it is fair to have people waiting hours to see the doctor. I think if we give the tablets to the patients in their waiting room they will be able to take a survey while they wait in the room. I think the physicians should know how long patients have to wait to be seen. I think the staff should have a meeting including the physicians to see how they can better

Another issue that loyalty wraps itself around is the wait time in doctors’ offices, including the time between a call-in and appointment and the time spent in the waiting room. Studies show that America generally has some of the longest waiting times among other countries. Studies show that 26 percent of Americans wait six days or more for an appointment after calling, which is better than only Norway and Canada (Rosenthol). Because people find spending relatively long periods of time in waiting rooms unsatisfactory, they seek to find the healthcare provider that has little to no waiting room. If the efficiency of the medical staff proves to be poor, then the waiting time a patient experiences could be incredibly long. This could cause dissatisfaction towards the specific practice, harming a reputation and resulting in fewer patients in the future.

There are several reasons that making it to appointments on time is important. It effects not just the clinic itself but also effects every other department that is connected with it and the hospital as a whole. Being a Soldier I am supposed to lead by example and I can't lead if I can't even show up for any of my appointments on time. The over all effect of this action is very negative all through out the entire hospital. Clinics are very closely related to every other department in the hospital. Our mission as medical workers is to take care of any and all patients and we can not do this if our staff is constantly wasting appointment slots that the providers could be using for dependents or someone else that could actually earn the

I agree with you that medical staff should be more compassionate. I agree with Ms. Hopkins as well that they have a 20-minute rule but at the same time, I believe there is always a way to say things. Being rude is not an option and especially in a field where you working with people who have health issues. A smile and sweet words are the first rule of professionalism. If workers are following the appointment rules then I think they should also follow the professionalism

Another story that stood out was the man who had to wait in a full waiting room with a bullet in his leg. This man had a deadly object in his body and he still had to wait for hours just to be seen by a doctor. He had to wait because the hospital had no room to put him in. Even if you're the first one to get to the ER, it doesn't mean that you get in first. The hospital determines who goes in first by how severe your situation is, so they could have a patient waiting in the waiting room for many hours, just so they can get a prescription of

BBC analysis of NHS figures showed nearly 475,000 patients waited for more than four hours in 2015-16 - almost a five-fold increase since 2010-11.

To me a reasonable wait time should be no more than 10 to 15 minutes from time of the patient’s arrival to when he or she is taken to an exam room. Once the patient is in the exam room he or she should not have to wait more than 20 minutes to see the physician, physician’s assistant, or nurse practitioner. If there is a delay in seeing patients who are in the waiting room, front office staff should tactfully notify patients of the delay and give patients the opportunity to reschedule if they wish. If the office/facility has a full understanding of time management this will ensure that patients are not left waiting in the waiting room.

Upon arrival a patient should have been made aware about a delay therefore he/she would not get inpatient. The appointment itself should not be rushed. A health proffessional should have explained everything in a clear and precise manner giving patient the opportunity to voice any concern or ask any additional questions. In regards to the appointment itself, the