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CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 5

Note from the Instructor: The importance of CDI audits as teaching tools

September 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, CDI Management

by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS
Most people cringe at the thought of either being audited or performing audits. However, in the world of CDI, audits are crucial to helping a CDI team stay up to date with the fast pace of medicine, the continual changes of coding guidelines,...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 5

Note from the Instructor: Preparing for the CCDS-O certification exam

September 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Outpatient CDI

by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
Some people can study very little for a test and still pass. Others spend weeks, if not months, preparing for a test and still never feel 100% ready. Well, I am in the latter group, and recently I was tasked with taking the CCDS-O exam so that I...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 4

Guest column: Investing in yourself is investing in your team’s success

July 1, 2022
Education

by Molly Siebert, RHIA, CCDS
As a CDI specialist, you of course want to do a good job during your daily work. But what can make you an exemplary CDI specialist? I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and on the top of my list is investing in yourself.

There are...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 4

Guest column: A time and place for social determinants of health

July 1, 2022
Clinical & Coding

by Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
Well, I think we can do away with some of the suspense created by the title of this article by revealing that the time for identifying and capturing social determinants of health (SDOH) is now. That’s right. Now. But don’t stop reading yet. We...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 4

Physician advisor’s corner: The troponin is up. Now what?

July 1, 2022
Clinical & Coding

by Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS
Since the publication of the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Note from the Interim Director: A time to reflect

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
I often joke that I started nursing with Florence Nightingale. Compared to those early days of my career, the world has changed and medical care has advanced beyond my imagination. And although I could never have dreamed of...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3

Guest column: Men in nursing

May 1, 2022
ACDIS Guidance, Education

by Steven L. Griffin, DNP, RN, CCM, CCDS
A man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, then departed, leaving him half dead. Then a Samaritan man traveling down the same road came to where the man was. When he saw him...Read More »
CDI Journal - Volume 16, Issue 2

Guest column: The power dynamics of American healthcare

March 1, 2022
Clinical & Coding, Education

by Steven L. Griffin, DNP, RN, CCM, CCDS
Modern American medicine is a prime example of a profession that has tremendously increased its authority through the attainment and control of specialized knowledge and judgment that is perceived as belonging exclusively to the physician....Read More »

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