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Dr Z Conference Begins
Attended a 4 day conference on coding education for cath and vascular lab.
Day one was 1/2 day of general periperal coding and 1/2 day vascular coding.
Day two was intense all day vascular coding session -
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CATH LAB EDUCATION PROJECT
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Dr Z Conference Ends
Day 3 was an all day vascular coding session again very intense.
Day 4 was an all day cardiac cath coding session -
Start to create education info
Need to take information learned at conference and create a education tool, inform other deparments of changes learned and start list to help update charging slips and Chargemaster. -
Review documentation
Review documentation from seminar -
Meeting with My Director
Discuss findings from seminar and discuss education strategy. Cath lab staff is limited due to 2 maternity leaves want to wait for them to return - thinking early May for educational presentation. -
Meeting with Cath lab Director
Director of Cath Lab insists on us moving forward with education materials to present to her staff prior to the return of the 2 staff on maternity leave. May need to repeat presentation at later date.She has one new staff member that really needs the education.April 6th 2012 at noon will be the date for the education. -
Prepare Educational Material
Starting to gather infomration to prepare PPT presentation for education and copy anatomy templates for staff. -
Present Education
Present PPT and material to cath lab staff
Actually went very well - used the power point and handouts to demonstrate the actual process of catheterization and whether it is selective or non-selective. Went over this a few times in power point to make sure they got it. The staff was very responsive especially the new employee that director was really concerned about. whe asked many questions and we asked her to bring the actual cath lab/vascular lab charge sheets to the meeting and we found alot -
education cont'd
of errors on it. We took the time to work through that process and made a copy of the corrections so that the original could be updated. All in all it went really well the only thing I would have changed was to have larger anatomy charts so everyone could see but it still worked well. -
Education issue
We did have an issue with the education of the presentation - this was mandatory for all staff (minus the two that were on maternity) One staff member refused to come as she felt it was not necessary and the director was not very pleased with her. -
Update Charge sheet for Cath lab
Charge sheet had mutliple errors and this was corrected with the removal of all old charge sheets from drawers and files so no more confusion. -
Create Visio Workflow diagrams
Created Visio work flow diagrams for procedures done in the vascular lab to assist cath lab staff. Also created anatomy diagrams and laminated them to hang or utilize in the cath/vascular labs. -
Vascular Audt of procedures
Audit or review done on charges and with the changes and addition of tools they only had one error on Dr Schultz cases! The new employee says she feels a lot more confident now after the education and tools. -
Vascular audit
Again cases were reviewed/audited for correctness in charges and they did an excellent job again, We had updated charge ticket again to remove a code that cannot be charged and with that they had 100% accuracy this week! -
Vascular audit
Charges were again reviewed for accuracy and they were all done correctly - 100%. I think it is safe to say we have had a a very successful outcome.