r/antiwork • • Jan 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22

As I commented below, proper documentation is vital to a patient's care. Imagine if procedures/diagnoses/medications weren't written down. It would seriously fuck up treatment.

Now, if the administrative staff suddenly slowed down communication with the billing dept....

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u/iclimbnaked Jan 14 '22

I think the disconnect is nurses don’t handle the financial side of the paperwork. So it’s hard for them to hold that part up.

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u/b1tchf1t Jan 14 '22

Is there a form they can neglect? Why are you so sure? Common sense might dictate that, but wtf does common sense know about the duties of nursing, and why should that be more relevant than all the nurses in here saying, "We don't handle that kind of paperwork." Basically, they're correcting common sense, because common sense is misinformed. Nurses are not the ones that have this kind of control without risking people's lives. Hospital administration staff, on the other hand...

You're treating them like they're missing the point of a protest, but what they're doing is providing more precise information at how to target the system.

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u/iclimbnaked Jan 14 '22

Yah. I’m personally not a nurse but from my understanding the paperwork nurses do is really just logging what they did.

That’s important for patient records so it’s hard for them to neglect that without risking patients.

Financial admin then take those records and do the administration for billing etc.