What a fantastic first day! My nervousness was for naught! What a great group of gals to work with, and everyone jokes around. One of the coders had her shirt on inside out and realized it about an hour into work. We all lost it!
I had three charts to assemble and analyze (they all come into the department willy nilly and out of order), and one of those babies was about 125 pages long! After I got things in order, then I had to flag the ones that needed a doctor's signature. Deficiency check lists have to be filled out (for missing signatures/reports/etc), and then all that information gets plugged into a computer program, and copies made of certain papers that go to the doctors, home health care, etc.
Then the charts go on to the coder. There's 6 gals working under the health information administrator, 5 of those being RHITs (Registered Health Information Technicians-degreed gals) and one is the secretary, who was training me today and she assembles/analyzes the charts.
I'm all fired up to go back tomorrow already!
