Optimizing Documentation: Enhancing Care and Job
Satisfaction (Recorded Webinar)

Presented by Neely Sullivan

Optimizing Documentation: Enhancing Care and Job Satisfaction (Recorded Webinar)

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Video Runtime: 64 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 19 Minutes

Providing excellent client-centered services depends on documentation that clearly illustrates the medical necessity of the client. In contrast, current documentation expectations play a role in a healthcare professional’s burnout, affecting both well-being and client care outcomes. By recognizing the challenges posed by documentation requirements and implementing strategies to mitigate their impact, we can support the well-being of professionals and enhance the quality of care provided to our patients. This session will address the relationship between documentation, client-centered care and healthcare professional job satisfaction, and identify key specific requirements and examples for documentation. Participants will learn strategies to impact and improve documentation and job satisfaction. This course is appropriate for providers in inpatient, outpatient, long term care, and home care settings.

Learning Objectives
  • Compare the relationship between documentation, client-centered care, and job satisfaction
  • Recognize the essential components required in rehabilitation documentation
  • Identify through examples and a case study what constitutes appropriate documentation
  • Highlight strategies to impact and improve documentation and job satisfaction

Meet your instructor

Neely Sullivan

Neely Tolbert Sullivan MPT, CLT-LANA, CDT, has worked with diverse client populations ranging from pediatric to geriatric in a variety of clinical settings. These experiences have allowed her to treat and develop effective client care programs. She has served in multiple levels of regional and corporate management positions.…

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Chapters & learning objectives

Scope of the Concern

1. Scope of the Concern

This chapter explains how excellent client-centered services depend on documentation that clearly illustrates the medical necessity of the client. It also illustrates how current documentation expectations play a role in healthcare professional burnout, affecting both well-being and client care outcomes.

Documentation Expectations

2. Documentation Expectations

This chapter covers key specific requirements for documentation. Participants will learn how to articulate the medical necessity of their client, illustrate the complexity of their skills to support the necessity of their treatment plans, and recognize through examples what constitutes appropriate documentation.

Collaborative Communication

3. Collaborative Communication

By recognizing the challenges posed by documentation requirements and implementing strategies to mitigate their impact, we can support the well-being of healthcare professionals and enhance the quality of care provided to our patients. One of these strategies is collaborative communication. This chapter identifies how collaborative communication among the interprofessional team can address burnout and contribute to client-centered care.

Point-of-Service (POS) Documentation

4. Point-of-Service (POS) Documentation

By recognizing the challenges posed by documentation requirements and implementing strategies to mitigate their impact, we can support the well-being of members of the interprofessional team and enhance the quality of care provided to our patients. One of these strategies is point-of-service documentation. This chapter identifies how point-of-service documentation can help healthcare professionals meet daily expectations and illustrates how point-of-service documentation can be optimized to enhance patient care and team member satisfaction.

Question and Answer Session

5. Question and Answer Session

This chapter is a viewer-submitted question and answer session facilitated by Neely Sullivan.