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Apr. 15th, 2003 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesOne of my great satisfactions is doing something right the first time. Unfortunately, work seems designed not to work that way. For instance, I type the treatment plans a student gives me, and then two days later the student comes back with changes to every single treatment plan I typed. Policy states that I can't go back and change what I typed two days ago; I have to start over. Some patients have seven or eight different treatment plans on file because the students keep changing the options.
I have just printed out treatment plans from two years ago for one of the students. What probably happened was, the patient agreed to one option, and then something happened and that option changed, but the student never bothered to redo the treatment plan until the patient's work was done. In order to clear the patient off the student's roster, the treatment plan has to be both accurate and signed by the patient, so I'm going to get to type a retroactive treatment plan.
I also have a bit of a rant about dates. Treatment plans say, basically, that "if you want this treatment option, you must sign this document within three months of the date on it". The problem is, the students tend to overwrite old treatment plans with new ones, and as long as the old one had a date on it, they don't change it. So, unless I'm careful about it, a new patient can get a treatment plan dated 2001. I caught one once that not only had a very wrong date on it, but also had the wrong patient's name where the patient has to sign. The top said "John Doe" and the signature line said "Jane Smith". Sigh.
I have just printed out treatment plans from two years ago for one of the students. What probably happened was, the patient agreed to one option, and then something happened and that option changed, but the student never bothered to redo the treatment plan until the patient's work was done. In order to clear the patient off the student's roster, the treatment plan has to be both accurate and signed by the patient, so I'm going to get to type a retroactive treatment plan.
I also have a bit of a rant about dates. Treatment plans say, basically, that "if you want this treatment option, you must sign this document within three months of the date on it". The problem is, the students tend to overwrite old treatment plans with new ones, and as long as the old one had a date on it, they don't change it. So, unless I'm careful about it, a new patient can get a treatment plan dated 2001. I caught one once that not only had a very wrong date on it, but also had the wrong patient's name where the patient has to sign. The top said "John Doe" and the signature line said "Jane Smith". Sigh.
