Clinical Update

Hello all! I hope everyone is having a great semester. Things are moving along for me. Our hospital is beginning to ramp up for our HFAP survey. HFAP is a hospital accreditation similar to JCAHO. Many hospitals are moving to this type of survey. Right now we are really working hard on our Stroke Indicators. With our Stroke Certification we must do alot of PI (performance indicators) to show what our turn around times are. I am given a list of patients that coded out as a stroke and then must audit their charts for their CT head or CTA head results and then also their CXR's. We are supposed to have results to the ordering physician in 45 minutes. For the most part, we are very good at what we do. CT is a well-oiled machine in most cases. Of course, there are always an outlier or two that needs a little research. It helps alot that I still go back and watch staff and scan. It is a huge help to get buy in from staff and also to develop policies that actually work.