{"id":221,"date":"2016-05-22T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ws05\/blogportal\/enews\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-05-22T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:56:33","slug":"standards-of-the-month-june-july-and-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2016\/05\/standards-of-the-month-june-july-and-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards of the Month (June, July and August)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>June:\u00a0 Managing up the EMR<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">When physicians, particularly in the outpatient area are confronted with the challenges of documentation during a busy clinic session, it helps to document during the visit.\u00a0 Clinicians can &#8220;manage up&#8221; the EMR through simple statements like, &#8220;I want to document some of these important things you are telling me,&#8221; or &#8220;the EMR here is our way to communicate with all of your docs, so I will make sure our discussion and findings are in the record for Dr. Smith to see.&#8221;\u00a0 It is also suggested that outpatient physicians encourage their patients to sign-in to MyChart through EPIC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>July: Hand washing and the communication surrounding that.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This is a simple message of patient safety and one which is an organizational priority.\u00a0 When cleaning hands, it is suggested that we let the patient know that we are, &#8220;cleaning my hands for your protection.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>August: Acknowledging others in the room.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Often times in health care delivery, a family member or caregiver can be the strongest ally for a physician.\u00a0 When entering a room, it is important to acknowledge everyone in the room with an introduction of who you are.\u00a0 This should be no different than if you are meeting someone at a party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June:\u00a0 Managing up the EMR.\u00a0 When physicians, particularly in the outpatient area are confronted with the challenges of documentation during a busy clinic session, it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-experience","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}