Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted. A.V. Nurse Unit Manager 11/30/15 Required Questions (answer EVERY question in this section) 1. Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences. A.V. went to Mandel where she obtained her Medical Office Assistant Certificate. She worked as a medical assistant for 10 years in a School-Based clinic where she took vital signs on patients and assessed the reason for their visit to clinic. She worked alongside a pediatric N.P. During her time as a medical assistant she was encouraged to continue her education and she wanted to better herself and children. A.V. went back …show more content…
Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility. A.V. stated, “we have just upgraded our computer system to EPIC.” This new EHR is going to improve patient care. It will be more user friendly and eliminate some of the clicking and make it easier to navigate.” 5. What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high quality information/data and how is that information utilized? The groups of healthcare workers that rely on A.V. to collect high-quality information are the providers. “Based on my assessments of the patients they know whether a patient needs to be seen urgently or if the patient can wait to be seen, if they should schedule an appointment to be seen at a later date, or if the patient needs to be sent to the Emergency Room.” Optional Questions (answer only ONE question from the choices below) 1. Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?” 2. Please share an example of how garbage in/garbage out (GIGO) impacted a decision related to your information/data collection. 3. Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role. 4. Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you? A.V.’s typically starts her day with checking her emails and telephone messages. Day begins with adding the add-on patients to her schedule for that day. She
Medical professionals GP, Nurses and Doctors : They can examine, diagnose and treat. They can also record this can be photographic evidence.
EPIC EpicCare is rated as the best Acute care and Ambulatory EMR for large hospitals with more than 75 physicians (KLAS Research,2017). As Houston Methodist (HM) is committed to Leading medicine and improve patient experience, the leadership decided in 2013 to shift from MethOD an EMR based on Allscripts® to a new EHR looking for an integrated solution that will help build a complete and robust patient story, easily accessible by the care team to help them make more informed decisions in order to achieve better health outcomes, improve communications, and get patients more involved by providing them with convenient online tools. HM started the vendor selection process in 2014 and in 2015 they decided to go for EPIC EpicCare
In early 2011 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) informed it patients and the general public that it would be fully immersed in another version of the electronic health record system, EPIC, by the completion of the 2012-2013 fiscal year. With so many hospital, clinic, and community locations, the hospital needed to implement the system in phases and fully engage thousands of
HIM Personnel play an important role in the Medicare system. Medicare has transitioned from “fee for service” to providing incentive payments for providers that issue high quality care at affordable prices. In order to achieve the “pay-for-quality” incentives hospitals and health care officials must improve their documentation processes. “If it isn’t documented, it wasn’t done” is more important than ever. It is the responsibility of the HIM professional to ensure the integrity of the patient chart. HIM professionals monitor the quality of documentation and ensure all clinical documentation is complete and accurate. HIM professionals are the key to identifying process problems while keeping in mind patient safety, quality of care, and revenue integrity. Medicare requires that hospitals report quality improvement measures in order to receive payments; HIM professionals can directly impact Medicare incentive payments. HIM professionals are directly involved with the Medicare Audit Improvement Act. The HIM professional collects health data that is subject to the audits; HIM professionals are the point of contact for responding to Medicare audit requests.
With an ever-increasing body of knowledge in the field of nursing, more education is being required to enter the field of nursing. Many healthcare institutions are raising the educational requirements in order to become employed or maintain employment in their facilities. Healthcare organizations are transitioning to hiring registered nurses (RN) who have a higher level of education, such as, a graduate from a Baccalaureate Degree Nursing (BSN) program. The goal of these institutions is to have nurses with a broader array of skills that can meet the growing demands of our patient population. BSN prepared nurses are recognized for their well-rounded skills in critical thinking, management, case management and health promotion versus Associate Degree nurses (ADN)/Diploma nurses that focus on direct patient care.
Despite increased nurse involvement in anesthetic care, formal education lacked. It wasn’t until 1909 when the first formal education in nursing anesthesia arose at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon by Agnes McGee. In spite of the advanced education nurses were receiving in anesthesiology, the role of the Nurse
The medical staff has been using “best of breed” systems and has concerns of loss of key functions. However, they agreed to adopt EPIC, an enterprise-wide system designed for maximal integration and continuity of care throughout the continuum. This agreement was reached without any understanding of a potential loss of functionality in the new system, and an assumption the new system will be acceptable to the physicians once installed.
Utilize health information professionals and practice to ensure compliance with health data structures, standards and content.
Epic is a single integrated system for the clinical and business functions of health care provision that include registration, scheduling, and billing. The system is owned by Epic Systems, formerly Episodic Care, a large provider of HIT (health information technology) and is mainly utilized by health providers in accessing, systematizing, storing, and distributing EMR’s. Epic Systems is an independent firm in Verona, Wisconsin with a vast campus. Epic is useful in streamlining regulatory compliance, clinical workflow, quality care, the patient experience, and clinical documentation. This is a reflection of the
My chosen career is a registered nurse with a specialty in neonatal medicine. I am very passionate about helping others and learning how the human body all works together as a coordinated system. Currently I work as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) where I assist elderly residents with tasks that vary from getting dressed to making sure they are as comfortable as possible. While I thoroughly enjoy working with all of the residents at the nursing home, I am ready for a new challenge. I would like to gain more knowledge in order to help even more people with a wide variety of issues. I am interested to see what it takes to move up the career ladder in the nursing field. As well as what to expect as far as education requirements, salary, and the outlook of nursing jobs. In order to learn more about registered nursing I have scheduled an interview with Stacy Helmuth, a registered nurse at Shawnee Mission Medical Center.
Currently there are no standardized reporting systems for the collection of data on interprofessional healthcare workforce. Hassmiller & Goodman (2011), postulated that the fragmented data on healthcare workforce resulting from research conducted by separate professions are deficient in that they do not focus on an combination of healthcare professionals in a given region.
“A thorough understanding of how information is currently collected, and processed is the starting point in performing a needs assessment” (Hebda & Czar, 2013, p. 155). There are four stages of conducting a needs assessment, these include: gap analysis, identify barriers, identify priorities, and summarize results (Young, 2008). The gap analysis can determine what the difference is between the current state and the desired state. Some of these areas that need to be considered are staff computer skill level, patient volume, time, resources, and the repetitive tasks. “ The goal is to determine what information is used, who will be using it and how it is used. All the data items used in the current system should be analyzed” (Hebda & Czar, 2013, p. 155). Important decisions need to be made regarding what types of information should be kept, what is redundant and what is necessary. To determine this, an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current process needs to be made, either manual or automated, to see what the organization needs. Systems should have a streamline data collection and it should be presented as information that can enable clinicians to coordinate care with ease and efficiently (Hebda & Czar, 2013). The data that is involved in the gap phase is collected through methods like observations, surveys,
Identify and analyze what you believe to be the most significant new technology requirements for the health care industry. Indicate how providers should approach the implementation
Give me a high-level overview of your career and highlight areas that are relevant to this role.
If you asked a fellow worker to give his or her opinion regarding training in this firm. what would his or her response likely be?