Assignments for deliverable 7 healthcare intake packet

SUBJECT: ADMISSION FORMS

Success is what every organization and business aim to achieve. In our healthcare organization we aim to achieve that too, it will be possible for us to do so if we are able to make our employees understand the forms that are filled at the admissions of patients. In doing this, they can spread that knowledge to the patients or the team that accompanied the patient and these will boost our employee's trust and the customer or rather the patients. I was then tasked to be the one to inform them about all this process. The best way I saw was to use memorandum in order to reach all the employees on time.

There are two types of admission that patients undergo, these include; elective admission and emergency admission. In each of the admission, there are different types of forms that patients are required to fill so that they allowed to proceed with treatment. Most patients do not understand these forms perfectly or what they require or the need to fill these forms our employees are then required to have the knowledge on these forms and therefore be in a capability transferring this knowledge to all the patients, McGonigle, D. Mastrain, K. (2012). The examples of these forms are; patient referral form, consent for treatment form, patient history sheet, consent to the collection and use of personal and health information form, health insurance claim form, emergency transfer form. These and other forms are what all patients are required to fill in the admission process. These particular forms are really important to our organization and all our employees are expected to understand them and be able to infiltrate knowledge concerning them to all the patients before they fill them.

The first form is the health insurance form which is an important form that a patient is required to fill in case they have an insurance cover that covers for a risk of the person using it. It is an important factor to note because every facility has to know how they will get paid for their services to the patients. The patient must understand the need of filling this form because it will help him or her to get the cover he or she is using. They are also able to understand that if they cannot fill the form then their cover will not cater for them and then they will have to pay the hospital bills instead of the insurance cover doing so, Mosby, 1998. Another type of form is the patient referral form which is the most important of all every patient who requires extra medication that our organization cannot offer is the required to fill this form with the assistance the employees. This is because they are able to understand the reason they are getting referred to another medical organization, it will also contain important information that the next medical facility will require to know like the kind of medication the patient was in and many more.

Patient history sheet is just one of the important forms a patient just fills before being admitted to our organization. The importance of filling this form is that it will enable us to know which medical problems the patient has ever undergone and therefore we can determine the probability of the sickness had a recurrence or if the current situation of the patient is related to the previous problems, McGonigle, D. Mastrain, K. (2012). It is also important because it will prevent our employees from messing up with the health of the patient.

Consent for treatment form which is very important because it protects the patient. Every patient has the capability to decide whether they want to be treated or not therefore in doing so if anything in anyway happens and they were informed of the dangers then the organization cannot be punished for the problem. An example of this is before a person is sent to a surgical operation then they are required to fill a consent for treatment which they are allowed to give their concern for their lives and informed if anything happens to then it will not be a responsibility of the medical organization, Mosby, 1998. Emergency transfer form is one of the important forms a patient has to fill. The importance of this form is that for an emergency to occur there are some important notes that have to be taken for example blood groups and many another things to allow our employees to know how they are going to handle these emergency issues which occurs.

In this memo, we have highlighted the responsibilities of our employees to ensure that all the forms that patients are required to fill are filled without no delay and they have informed the reason as to why the fill the forms. The reasons for the patients filling these forms are because they are important to them in many different ways. If any of the employees have any question concerning the forms that are supposed to ensure the entire patients fill them can come to the main office and get the answers to their questions.

REFERENCES

Perry, Ann Griffin. Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques. Mosby, 1998.

McGonigle, D. Mastrain, K. (2012). Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge. (2nd ed.)