Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Week 7, Day 2...over

Today was a day of assessments.

Started with watching my OT do the KELS on a patient in adult acute who can't leave the unit (hence no CPT), I didn't much like the assessment. The pt decided to pull up her shirt/down her pants to show us fire burns.

I did two groups - very small groups today - one on "Noodle Boosters" and one on Healthy Lifestyle Habits.

Then I went to Dual Diagnosis and brought the patient to the rehab area, did the CPT on the patient.

After lunch I did an eval on a very confused lady who said her dad could hear the sound of a "pea dropping off a dog"....she later changed it to flea. LOL.

I have a HUGE list of patients to do ADMs on, I'm only a little behind on LACLS, and a tiny bit behind on MMSEs and GDS.

Gotta think about groups tomorrow, hmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Went to gym after work....took a "nap" which was mostly me lying there thinking about patients and who needs what in the unit.

I need to try and remember to stop at a Dollar General or something and get some cheap cards. I'm tired of patients asking for them and there not being any. I'm sure they've had cards on and off and they always get destroyed or something, but still. Costco, sell giant things of cheap playing cards, all with different color backs to keep decks separate, to stock up rehab units and stuff.

Wow, this was an almost short post, how is that possible.

Didn't get anything helpful done this afternoon, but tomorrow is a new day with new opportunities, right?






1 comments:

Anna said...

I really appreciate your posts. I am an OT with 3 years of experience working as a contract OT in mental health. The state hospital I'm in currently doesn't actually do billing for OT services, so we have no productivity requirements etc. It's GREAT, but we are beginning to revamp how we do things because the day is soon coming that we will be billing. I was just curious if I could pick your brain about how the hospital you are in bills for OT... what assessments you use/documentation etc. Feel free to email me at otanna@gmail.com
Thanks!