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Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 8
The best way we’ve found to teach clarity in documentation (and that’s really the goal) is to use real-life examples and ask the group for feedback on the quality of each student’s progress note.
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Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 7
You’re probably not thinking about the stuff you wrote about today’s middling-good group session as something that could be important when an insurance company reviews the case.
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Documenting Supervision
Busy professionals, though, may rely on “taking notes,” and doing the more formal documentation “later, when there’s time.”
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Professional Development Plan
Clinicians who improve their skills produce better outcomes for the client.
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The Practitioner vs. the Technique
I take great care in finding the right practitioner. He or she will likely be more important than the technique itself.
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Acing the Continued Stay Review
Your goal is always to use the extra time to measurably increase the chances of a good outcome for that patient.
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Complex Case: The Devil We Know
There’s this big group we lump under the heading ‘precontemplation’. But in practice, there are precontemplators, and pre-pre-contemplators, and pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-contemplators.
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Evolution of a Disease Concept
A model generally supersedes other models not because it is perfect in every respect, but because it seems to explain certain aspects better than its predecessors.
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Patient Education: Powerful Tool for Program Success
A key breakthrough for recovering clients: The realization that, while they cannot control their disease, they can do a lot about their own recovery.
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Lowering Your Residential ASA Rate: A Practical Guide
A patient who leaves ASA can’t be considered a treatment success, and a high ASA rate is sure to damage a program’s reputation. Analysis and preventive action can lower your rate of ASA discharges. Here are a few simple suggestions.
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Waiting (and Waiting…) for Inpatient Beds
If your inpatient provider determines eligibility using ASAM patient placement criteria, don’t forget to describe the patient’s need in those terms. Makes your case a little stronger by making their job a little easier.
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