Q&A Critical Care with Residents Documentation

[winnie]

can a resident's documentation be linked with the treating physician documentation even if they are written 2 or more hours apart, with a proper linking statement?

 

[Alicia Scott]

I believe it can. It is common for the treating physician to write after the resident anyway to confirm POC. The resident and the physician do not often document at the same time anyway.

 

[Laura E. Duncan]

Always seeing new abbreviations that I am not familiar with. Alicia, what does POC stand for in the above statement? Is there a CCO cheat sheet available for printing of commonly used abbreviations used in the CCO forums? I think it would be very helpful. Thank you.

 

[Alicia Scott]

That is a brilliant idea Laura. POC=Plan of care

I will work that up and maybe we can get a CEU for it.

 

[Laura E. Duncan]

Thanks Alicia. I am CCA certified but have yet to test for AAPC certifications. The CEUs for webinar attendance and courses, are they only AAPC approved? If that is the case, is CCO working on getting them approved for CEUs for AHIMA certification as well?
Thank you.

 

[Alicia Scott]

We have been talking with AHIMA and at this time the CEUs are only offered through the AAPC.