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*If my understanding of this process is correct, the idea is to have one patient/laptop follow the same patient for the entire length of stay. I have had some patients for example, that during the same admission transfer from my e5 medicine ward, to medical intensive care, and back again, THREE times. I am not trained to collect on critical care. Critical care is a whole different ballpark. That means that every data collector in the city, will need to be cross trained for both medicine and critical care. | *If my understanding of this process is correct, the idea is to have one patient/laptop follow the same patient for the entire length of stay. I have had some patients for example, that during the same admission transfer from my e5 medicine ward, to medical intensive care, and back again, THREE times. I am not trained to collect on critical care. Critical care is a whole different ballpark. That means that every data collector in the city, will need to be cross trained for both medicine and critical care. | ||
*I do not see how this way of splitting patients can be done on a fair and equitable basis. We do not all have the same eft, and we don't all have nice simple .5 eft's. My eft is .65. Not quite as easy to fairly and equitably split. | *I do not see how this way of splitting patients can be done on a fair and equitable basis. We do not all have the same eft, and we don't all have nice simple .5 eft's. My eft is .65. Not quite as easy to fairly and equitably split. | ||
**The division of workload should actually be easier using this method. If you are a .65 as opposed to a .5, then the chart numbers that are assigned to you would be equivilant to your EFT, so a .65 EFT would be assigned more of the chart numbers than a .5 EFT would be.[[User:Mlagadi|Mlagadi]] 12:24, 2019 September 5 (CDT) | |||
*What about the emip's? How will they be handled? The number of emip's that I do are variable. I had 29 emip's in a 10 day time frame last month, and 40+ emip's for the month of August. Other months I'll have half of that for the entire month. | *What about the emip's? How will they be handled? The number of emip's that I do are variable. I had 29 emip's in a 10 day time frame last month, and 40+ emip's for the month of August. Other months I'll have half of that for the entire month. | ||
**EMIP's will be collected in the same way as we collect ward patients, using the assigned MRN's, so over time, they should have an equal distribution based on your EFT.[[User:Mlagadi|Mlagadi]] 12:24, 2019 September 5 (CDT) | |||
*Bottom line, the current process works just fine. It has worked just fine since the inception of the program. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Contrary to what some may think, it IS NOT (in my humble opinion) a hard ship for me, to have to admit patients that have transferred to my unit from a different unit within the hospital. The alternative, as proposed by this patient follow project will be unbelievably more work, and a logistical nightmare of unfathomable proportions. [[User:DPageNewton|DPageNewton]] 09:41, 2019 September 5 (CDT) | *Bottom line, the current process works just fine. It has worked just fine since the inception of the program. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Contrary to what some may think, it IS NOT (in my humble opinion) a hard ship for me, to have to admit patients that have transferred to my unit from a different unit within the hospital. The alternative, as proposed by this patient follow project will be unbelievably more work, and a logistical nightmare of unfathomable proportions. [[User:DPageNewton|DPageNewton]] 09:41, 2019 September 5 (CDT) | ||