Code Blue Summary

In the health care system, there are a lot of codes that help diagnose, treat, and discharge patients daily. Codes help nurses

Have you ever thought about what it would be like not to be free? What would it be like not to be able to make choices? What would it be like not to be able to do what you want? It's scary to think about not being free, but even in the world today some people don't even have basic human freedoms. Lois Lowry shows us in her books The Giver and Gathering Blue what it would be like not to have freedom and how important it is that we have it.

The passage which is called "Dr. Blue" by Anne Panning is a story written in 2nd person which takes place in a hospital where your mother is not feeling well. Throughout the story, the family (minus the mom) seems to be getting closer to one another as they spend time with each other, from going to the dollar store for necessities to eating at a fast food restaurant. They rarely ever done this with each other. But due to the current circumstances they were facing with the mom being ill in the hospital, they go out and spend time together more often.

Under the references comes the 3M Coding Reference Plus, and it contains AHA Coding Clinic for HCPCS, Coders’ Desk Reference for Procedures by Optum, Anesthesia Crosswalk, Faye Brown’s ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook, and ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbook. The References include introductions, changes in the ICD coding, and guidelines for coders to find and better understand the coding process. For example, the Anesthesia section provides the section of the surgery and next to it the section where the right code can be assigned. Then, the Coding Clinic for HCPCS provide some articles and questions with their answers related to coding and the changes to some codes. These references are crucial in the coding sector, especially with the changes that occur on some codes and modifiers. Coders should be aware of the references and use them to avoid intention and non-intention mistakes, frauds or abuse.

Jacqueline Novogratz has spent countless hours working on finding ways to help women in poverty create sustainable jobs. These women are from countries where they are the ones who are expected to stay home and take care of their families and do work around the house while their husbands are out working trying to make enough money to support their family. But in some cases, the husband has left his wife or he has passed away, leaving the wife to provide on her own. It is a struggle for women to make enough money for their family, and some nights the family will go hungry because not enough money was made to provide food. With the help of Novogratz and the companies that she worked for, women learned how to make enough money

The” Blue Zone” is places in the world where people living longer and healthier without disability and medications. The” Blue Zone” having not only people reach centenarians but super-centenarians. What is the secrets of this longevity? Dan Buettner makes the research with his team National Geographic, and National Institute on Aging to find the people living in those places call Blue Zone, and asks them question about their lifestyle to live longer and healthier. Dan Buettner and his team find five places in the world. Those places call Blue Zone are the Italian Island of Sardinia; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, California; Costa Rica’s Isolated Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, an Isolated Greek Island. The people living in Blue Zone live a lifestyle witch is plants based diet, move naturally, know your purpose, religion (have faith), 80% rule, drink wine five, belong to the right tribe, down shift, loved ones first, stay social. Can we find these people in Blue Zone and having their same lifestyle in our community here in Fredericksburg? Let choose three lifestyles in Blue Zone and compare to our community here in Fredericksburg: Plants based diet, move naturally, Love one first.

The ethical theories that are presented in the documentary Code Black by McGarry (2013) are the ability for doctors and nurses to use their virtue values. Virtue values are “sometimes called ethic represents the idea that individual’s actions are based upon certain degree of innate moral virtue” (Burkhart, 2014, p.48). A specific event occurred when senior resident Dr. Chang and registered nurse Deb exchanged in a confrontation on fast track patients (McGarry, 2013). Fast-track chairs are allowed for doctors to assess quickly and alleviate the amount of patients that are waiting to be assisted (McGarry, 2013). However, R.N. Deb argued fast tracks are not always done quickly and the resources should be focused on assessing critical care patients.

Coding systems are used in the inpatient and outpatient settings for the classification of patient morbidity and mortality information for statistical use. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) in the 1970s to track mortality statistics across the world. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), is the adaptation the U.S. health system uses as a standard list of six-character alphanumeric codes to describe diagnoses. Globally utilizing a standardized system improves consistency in recording symptoms and diagnoses for payer claims reimbursement, as well as clinical research, and tracking purposes.

Medical coding, on the other hand, deals more closely with patient medical records. Medical coders work in the billing office, or “back office” of medical practices or hospitals. Alphanumeric codes are assigned to all illnesses, injuries and treatments. Medical procedures are coded for the purpose of classifying diseases in numerical sequences for identification and data collection purposes, similar to the Dewey Decimal System in libraries. Coding specialists review medical records and assign numeric codes for the diagnoses identified and procedures performed. Each medical procedure and patient encounter has a number (CPT code) associated with it which corresponds to an ICD code. These

One of the greatest milestones in the United States health system is the use of electronic health records codes to ensure consistency in diagnosis and treatment procedures provided by physicians (Romano & Stafford 2011). The purpose of the case scenario of the sixteen year old female who visits the emergency department is to show how electronic health record coding is done and its impact on health reimbursement. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are brought out well in the case study showing how they help in ensuring physician consistency in coding diagnosis and treatment procedures for the purpose of health reimbursement.

Medical codes are assigned to procedures and diagnoses to bill insurance companies for the services doctors and other health care workers provide to patients. Diagnosis codes must be correctly linked to procedures to establish medical necessity.

Code 100 implementation will prevent avoidable inpatient deaths that are not an expected or outcome of a patient’s hospital stay (MHA, 2012). Code 100 which is the first section of a larger project that will require the staff nurses to document whenever they care a physician especially during the day shift and document all the signs and symptoms the patients’ exhibit and the intervention performed. The nurses will have a form to complete and the data will be collected to track the number of incidents and the outcome. The facility will put in place a Rapid Response Team in the coming weeks which will be activated when a nurse on the floor observe signs of deterioration from a patient to prevent the declination of the patient’s status. Mock Code will also be implemented to ensure the staff is ready when a Code 100 is called

In Blue Valentine, viewers are presented with a married couple that is having marital problems despite once being in love. While the wife has a good career as a nurse, the husband is a house painter and she thinks he could do more than that. Their attempt of rekindling their relationship while on a weekend trip gets out of hand as they argue and end up inebriated. It is at this moment that Cindy realizes she cannot be in this destructive marriage anymore and decides to end the relationship. This infuriates him and leads him to storm into her workplace causing a scene. Their daughter is loved by both parents, but the mother decides it is best if she stays with her instead of her problematic father Throughout the film, flashbacks tell their story about how they got married soon after she found out she was pregnant with her ex and their family dynamics that strongly impacted them.

The outmoded coding professional’s role was to describe and apportion diagnosis, procedure, and other medicinal service codes using ICD-9-CM and HCPCS/CPT coding classifications while referencing the Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM, Coding Clinic for HCPCS,

and green. Blue as discussed earlier was represented as the color of the God and other religious concepts, so the major incorporation of the color blue in the reliquary chasse indicated the spiritual significance it carried. Envisioning blue on the chasse unified people to Jesus Christ. Many of the reliquary chasse of the 12th century narrated a story; this individual one narrates the crucifixion of Christ. There are several key figures engraved throughout the exterior of the chasse, however since the crucial scene of the execution are shown on the front face of the chasse, that indicates that this chasse was primarily to be seen from the front rather than the sides. If viewed from the front, the top has three figures designed on it. In the center is the God the Father and on his either sides are two unknown saints. All three figures are represented in mandorlas however in different colors. The God of Father is displayed in the blue mandorla while the saints are shown in green mandorla. Here we can interpret a sense of hierarchy because the God of Father is shown in blue, which represents a divine color, however the saints are represented in green that is a mix of blue and yellow. So, blue still exists and represents divinity, yet the mixture of blue and yellow to produce a different shade of blue signifies that the God of Father is above and more important than the saints.