A. The main activities that that I completed during my internship included filing patient information as well as inputting patient assessments in a data system. Patient filing took place majority of the time, filing including taking patient files alphabetizing by name and organization by type. Types varied from nurse’s notes to massage therapy to medication for every patient that Heartland Flint/Lapeer cares for. Once all the notes were entered into files I was responsible for service reports, which is an inventory of every patients file to ensure that dates and times of patient interaction matched the information entered into the service report data base by the hospice staff.
Another task that was a major part of my internship was entering …show more content…
It was interesting to see how community members responded to hospice care and the ways they can be involved in the care of hospice patients.
B. Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) was the only system that I used to enter information. SHP is a system to record patient assessments based on pain, anxiety and shortness of breath to allow physicians and nurses to observe how the patient is progressing or diminishing. There was a scale 0-10, zero being the best 10 being the worst and I entered the number that the patient gave the nurse and whether the patient was comfortable with that specific level of pain, shortness of breath and anxiety.
C. My task as an intern related to Heartland’s Mission by enriching lives. I helped make sure patient files were properly organized in order to decrease the chances of mixed up and increase the organization of patient information, in turn patients and families don’t have to worry about un-organization of information. In addition to organizing I could do tasks that the professional task didn’t have time to complete ranging from sending mail to working with employee payroll information. Since the office was in the process of switching computer systems it was important that all the patient files are in order to make a smooth transition from paper to electronic filing. With files being taken care of, I played a part of enriching the lives of the staff by taking care of those tasks that could put more stress on them as they
Another task that was a major part of my internship was entering …show more content…
It was interesting to see how community members responded to hospice care and the ways they can be involved in the care of hospice patients.
B. Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) was the only system that I used to enter information. SHP is a system to record patient assessments based on pain, anxiety and shortness of breath to allow physicians and nurses to observe how the patient is progressing or diminishing. There was a scale 0-10, zero being the best 10 being the worst and I entered the number that the patient gave the nurse and whether the patient was comfortable with that specific level of pain, shortness of breath and anxiety.
C. My task as an intern related to Heartland’s Mission by enriching lives. I helped make sure patient files were properly organized in order to decrease the chances of mixed up and increase the organization of patient information, in turn patients and families don’t have to worry about un-organization of information. In addition to organizing I could do tasks that the professional task didn’t have time to complete ranging from sending mail to working with employee payroll information. Since the office was in the process of switching computer systems it was important that all the patient files are in order to make a smooth transition from paper to electronic filing. With files being taken care of, I played a part of enriching the lives of the staff by taking care of those tasks that could put more stress on them as they