This week’s topic is about the way in which medical personnel use abbreviations and acronyms. We will review an article titled: “Abbreviations and Acronyms in Healthcare: When Shorter isn’t Sweeter.”
Click the link below the phrase “Read THIS Article” and read the article, analyze the information, and write about what you learned. What does that mean? Read the article, determine what it is telling us, and write about what you learned. You must also do some outside research on the topic and relate it to the article’s information. Be thorough and specific.
Some suggestions for what to include in the discussion are:
Review the article and discuss what it tells us; what is the main topic in the article? How does the article discuss the effects of medical documentation that are appropriate and also not appropriate? What are some examples and how did they affect the care to the patient? What are the outcomes of inappropriate documentation that we’re learning today? Why is medical documentation important to ourselves and our patients?
Remember these are suggestions and you are not held to writing about these aspects, or only these aspects, but you should be sure to review the full information to discuss it thoroughly.
**Read THIS ARTICLE… attached here: