tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post6054466946754734730..comments2024-01-10T09:56:49.324-05:00Comments on Respiratory Therapy Cave: Is profit now more important than saving lives??Rick Freahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post-11778766024122706342009-03-15T19:39:00.000-04:002009-03-15T19:39:00.000-04:00Well, the goal of any business is to make a profit...Well, the goal of any business is to make a profit, but it's not supposed to be this obvious.Rick Freahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423880838207203660.post-65246839390886313032009-03-15T03:54:00.000-04:002009-03-15T03:54:00.000-04:00This is a great observation. As a respiratory ther...This is a great observation. As a respiratory therapist at a pediatric facility, there are times when charting must be triaged as multiple patients at one time can be having acute issues. Sometimes it helps to remember that from the administration side, lawsuits are real and they happen more frequently than we hear about. So, I wouldn't say the facility is neccessarily worried about getting money (although they all do, for sure) but it's keeping everything in-line for when that lawsuit comes knocking. Fortunately, I work at a place where our charges are seperate from our charting. We enter our procedures on a computer but chart on paper (for now). I can say using barcode scanning for things such as treatments has been a great help - it gives the clinician a backup, if you will, just in case that one treatment was not charted.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13460360741795073218noreply@blogger.com