Receiving Feedback

Well, what different "first day" in Orangeville - the charts are much easier compared to Ottawa. For starters the assemblying of the chart documents is way better so getting the information I need is easier to find. Have to realize too - Headwaters Hospital in Orangeville only has something like 108 beds - quite different from the 2,500+ beds we get in Calgary. The major surgery/interventions are transferred out of here like cardiac procedures. If I had to compare the type of charts I encounter to Strathmore which is just outside of Calgary. It is refreshing after those two tough weeks in Ottawa. Had some major "Fat" charts as we like to call them at the Foothills site - the patient's stay is like 100 days and fit into 4-6 volumes!!! The most I have done was an A-R (17 volumes!!!).

While in Ottawa, I received a phone call from my coding supervisor that they had chosen two other candidates for the Coding Coordinator positions (I had the interview the day I left for training in Ottawa last month). Boy, what an interview process - almost 2 hours long and 11 pages of questions!!! Plus I gave a 10 min presentation (talked about me and my career). Anyway, she did give me some feedback - she said I did well in my interview and that I was qualified for the position. And don't give up for future position - please do apply. Wow, that was nice of her to say - a great confidence booster.

So, for those trying to keep track my career moves - here is the updated tally. I work full time at the Calgary Health Region; casual (2 days a week) at Tom Baker Cancer Centre scanning charts for their electronic medical record; sporadic at-home coding for Salumatics (I start again May 5th coding day surgery charts) and of course working for CIHI doing this reabstracting study (ends May 2nd). Hope that is more clearer of where I am at now.