I enjoyed reading your post this week it was very informative. In one of our required readings this week, we learned about the minimal informatics competencies every nurse should know so that we can provide safe quality and competent care such as elementary computer skills, information literacy and information management (Gugerty & Delaney, August 2009). But as we are acquiring our masters level of education in nursing and expand our leadership roles, we need to gain knowledge in coding and billing.
I noticed a lot of my fellow nurses do not know nor do they care to know about coding and billing. As we document into the EMR, we are aware that our nurse's note cannot support the physician’s diagnosis and therefore is not