You’ve probably heard the mantra that, in order to grow personally and professionally, you need to “continually improve.” This is often accompanied by the advice, “get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” These pat aphorisms are often presented as memes on...Read More »
by Melissa Varnavas
September comes bittersweetly for those unwilling to give up on idealized days spent lounging by the stream, ocean, or pool. Certainly, by mid-August, for kids cramming to finish their summer reading projects and begrudgingly relinquishing their super-soakers,...Read More »
By Robin Jones, RN, BSN, MHA/Ed, CCDS
In 2004, when I entered the world of CDI, I can remember sitting in a classroom for one week learning about diagnosis related groups (DRG), complications and comorbid conditions (CC) and major CCs (MCC), case-mix index (CMI), severity of...Read More »
Q:If the patient comes in with a high blood alcohol level and the provider documents that number in their note, do they also need to specifically write “patient with intoxication?”Read More »
The CDI field is a heterogeneous one—filled with professionals from a wide range of healthcare backgrounds. According to the 2018 CDI Week Industry Survey, 93% of CDI programs employ nurses, 37% employ coding/HIM professionals, 35% employ physicians as advisors or champions, 15% employ foreign-...Read More »
By Angela Maxfield, RN, CCDS
Steve Jobs once said that “the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” How appropriate. But how often do we really think of how scary it is to change jobs? People change for different...Read More »
