Save Time With These Tips for Making Documentation Easier

Speech-language pathologists have a pretty sweet gig, am I right? We get to spend our working hours immersed in myriad rewarding tasks like teaching new moms to safely feed their precious babies, helping families learn strategies to communicate with their children and helping people who have had a stroke regain their voices. And when our day of using our communication superpowers for the greater good is through? We get to sit in front of a computer for hours and write about it. Not in an “I love this work and want to chronicle my experiences” sort of way. More in a “this tedious, painstaking documentation somehow became the focal point of my career” sort of way. Would you like to make it easier? I know I did, so with my partner in crime Sara Adams, I decided to give myself permission to look at the dark side of our profession in a new light. Consider your audience. For most of us, our primary audience consists of insurance personnel, school administrators and physicians. While they value our expertise, they primarily want diagnostic information, clinical impressions and our recommendations. By streamlining your evaluations through use of bullets and easy-to-read charts, you may make life easier for someone on the receiving end of your report. If you know that another clinician will also treat the patient, include enough information so the other clinician feels confident getting started. Not sure what “enough information” is? If I pick up an articulation studen...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Health Care Schools Technology Source Type: blogs