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"Conduit for patient care and safety" - tmtqc


Posted: May 23, 2015

"CAN'T-duit" for patient care and safety is more like it.  The only way we "CAN-duit" is to be able to take the time to produce an accurate and timely documentation of a patient's story and have a compensation plan that is attainable.  Instead we are pressured to produce more for less.  Sorry guys.... not buying it. "Happy" MT Week???   Nope..... not EVEN. 

Conduit for pushing a bunch of crap through - more like it. Happy MT week my grid

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