-Prodcedure on Baxter pumps: Call Baxter when trouble shooting pumps. -IsoTrain: Check you folders and online. -E-Source activation guidelines is on the break room door. -Rejected bags: Write codes on mas paperwork. -Hazardous waste audit is being done by Mr. Pagan and Mr. Faraglla. -Zinc is still on back order. -Wellfount issue: Call Mr. Mike if there are orders being put in by the hospital that we do not have the supplies for. - Still using FedEx for certain hospitals Monday-Friday. -FH New Symrna: Mr. Mike is training them next week. Might go live August 1st. -Tomorrow there is a new hospital called Oviedo Medical Center. Earl -Keep filling out the daily rejected sheets. -If there is a power outage: Make sure the correct date is on the
During the second week, I had the opportunity to accompany Mr. Price to meetings that he had with the managers of the nurses and schedulers. During those meetings, the managers discussed the ideal approach of how to accommodate patients who call the schedulers to acquire appointments for urgent medical concerns. There seemed to be a problem with patients taking up appointment slots when they do not have a true need to be assessed by their doctor. It was ultimately concluded that the schedulers would coordinate communication between the patient and the registered nurse. The nurse would then triage the patient’s concerns over the phone and provide medical guidance,
the care of the patient is better served at another facility that can provide certain services
DOI: 11/5/2004. Patient is a 58-year-old male pitcher driller who sustained a work-related injury to his low back when he slipped and fell backwards while cleaning a tub with a shovel. As per OMNI entry, the patient underwent laminectomy with decompression at L3-4 and L4-5 with degenerative disc disease and spondylolisthesis at L5-S1 on 07/14/2005; however, the surgery failed.
Would you please resubmit the patient DOS 09122017 v#15852640. The patient guarantor just call me very upsed b/c he receive the EOB and he said that we are billing ot his insurance one E&M CODE that we are not suppost to be billed b/c that was a procedure order that the patient needs to get done outside and not at WFH. I review the office notes and the provider order a ECHO exam of heart(93307) but, the provider by mistake select this procedure as a billed procedure and PMG FWD to the payer. Would you please re-bill the service back to the payer with the billing correction ASAP so the patient can get done this procedure. I advise the guarantor that are we are going to make the necessary corrections ASAP. The guarantor understood and he said
Ms. Okoro worked closely with the mental health clinical pharmacist on the medication refill project of the crises clinic; that reviewed the numbers of patients presenting to the mental health crises clinic for medication refills; it was determined that several of the patients did not know they had refills or the process of obtaining refills. Ms. Okoro worked with the pharmacists, the nursing staff and provided educational material for the patients, clinicians and the clerical staff and this decrease medication refill related visit.
Regina’s story was sad and indicates that the healthcare delivery system is fragmented; either a patient does not have access to his or her complete medical record or physicians do not have access to the entire record, which can significantly affect patient care. Regina was told that she had to pay 73 cents per page, and the wait time to receive the record would be 21-days. Facilities that print the record can charge the requester a fee to cover the cost of the materials and the labor, and the facility sets the turnaround time. However, the HIM department must prioritize the processing of the release of information, and continuity of care requests must be processed before the other types of requests. Regina’s husband was in a critical situation,
8/14/2015: The social worker was contacted by the medical assistant that Dr. Nuthi has a patient who is need of a concentrator and oxygen tanks. The respiratory therapist came and spoke with the social worker concerning this patient. The social worker contacted CASA who informed her that they are no longer able to store this type of equipment, but they did suggest calling Love Exchange, a program of the First United Methodist Church, and Waste Not, a program of the United Cerebral Palsy. The social worker also contacted Friends Inc, which could not assist the social worker and the Senior Center‘s Lending Closet, but have not heard back from them
Our patient in room 3032 is bringing in her own Sodium Chloride (Inhalant) 7 % NEBU 4 mL which is order BID. In order for us to see the medication you have to go under the MAR and click the all button not our respiratory tab. Please make sure that we are assigning this treatment BID. We almost missed this treatment today due to this mishap.
Increasing someone’s knowledge is different from getting them to make lasting changes in their on the job behaviors and it requires a different model of learning which is what Boyatzis’s theory offers [1]
Patient did not show for his appointment on 03-21-17. SPT failed to contact the patient by phone. The patient will be put on the waiting list until further notice.
Medical errors caused by human oversight are the main issue inside Emory Healthcare. In 1986, it was calculated that 37% of the patient cases had medication treatment fault. The problems are due to the lack of standard for orders by physicians. Physicians would place orders by hand writing, and then they would call a nurse and ask him/her to write the
Located in the middle Georgia area is a military base town that has increase two fold in population in the last fifteen years. In this town is a hospital with the mission statement to improve the healthcare of the communities we serve by providing patient-focused, high quality, cost effective services while promoting health and wellness. In the last 6 years the hospital has added 75 inpatient hospital beds, remodel emergency department, open two outliers urgent care centers and expanded its cardiac services. This acute care hospital is surrounded by small rural counties with the nearest hospital located in 35 miles radius. With the new expansion of the cardiac line services and demanding need to decrease wait time in the emergency room,
As healthcare continues to develop, so too has the technology involved. In the article, “A Controlled Trial of Smart Infusion Pumps to Improve Medication Safety in Critically Ill Patients” the authors seek to understand the impact of smart pumps, how they are used in the clinical setting and how this technology effects medication errors and adverse drug events. The thesis of this article recognizes that while the medication administration process is complex and allows many opportunities for error, the impact of advancing technology has great promise in improving the safety of infusion-based medications. The study also provides an opportunity to understand how critical care nurses are (or are not) integrating new technology into their practice. This non-blinded, prospective time series study sheds light on the fact that both the technology and the nurse’s performance were the critical factors in the current rates of intravenous infusion errors (Rothschild et al., 2005, p. 13, 20).
Inventory decisions – The minute clinics are a new way to see patients that may have less urgent needs such as; sore throat, pink eye, minor cuts and burns, or chronic diseases that may need monitoring. The clinics offer walk-in services to anyone, and they have the ability to look up patient records through Electronic medical records (EMR) leaving no paper record needing to be stored. Centers are being staffed by nurse practitioner and physician assistants with assistance of proprietary technology designed to help diagnose and
Becoming a master’s level social worker would enable me the credentials and opportunity to do what I want as a macro social worker. In order to get a career in this field you really need to have a master’s in order to be taken seriously and to get the position you want. I really want to work with an agency on an administration level developing programs and grant fundraising. Creating a program to fill the needs of others is something that I am passionate about along with changing policies that hinder clients.