My PPE Reflection

Performing my PPE helped me develop a better understanding of how a medical record is processed from the inception until it is filed in permanent records. I had no previous experience in a hospital setting so I was not sure of exactly how the entire operation is carried out. I have learned much in the classroom setting but after a while, it becomes difficult to truly understand how it all unfolds without seeing it in real time. When I am there, seeing things happen in real-time, it helps me to understand much better than I would if I had never been there. I have always been a visual person, so this helped me in so many ways. Almost every section in the medical records department reminded me of something that I have learned in class in some …show more content…
Compared to before I began going to the hospital and now, I can comprehend certain things better and I can visualize the flow of the medical record. When transporting medical records from the department to another floor of the hospital, I was reminded to keep the face of the folder down and expose the back of the folder, which bears no information that can be seen to the public. I kept this at the forefront of my brain whenever I was moving a record from one place to another that was outside of the medical records department. With various exercises, including de-identifying patient’s records, I was reminded of Acute Care and the exercise we performed in class and Dr. Willis brought medical records from the facility with all protected health information blacked out with permanent marker. These things are constant reminders of how careful I must be as a future health professional. I was able to practice these extremely important practices, which also happen to be guidelines of …show more content…
There is no way to manage something that you have no knowledge about. Although I may not perform every job that each employee does, they are all equally important to the department and to the operation of the hospital. Loretto Hospital is a small hospital and so the way the department is set up displays that. I would like to see first-hand how a larger, more diverse facility would operate in comparison to Loretto. I am more than sure that the entire process would be different and probably equally complex. During my time at Loretto, I gained skill to couple the knowledge I already possess. There were many things I have learned at the hospital that I did not know from the classroom as well. As mentioned earlier, Loretto is going fully electronic. This will cause some of the employees to be shifted around to work other functions or to become laid-off. This was a discussion I remember some of my instructors speaking about with mention that it will then be a hard decision for the manager to make in regard to what will become of the employee. I often put myself in the shoes of the Director to see how she handles certain situations and how I believe I would handle them just to have an idea or what could be change and enhanced within myself and understand the various strategies she has