Jody has recently been hired as the director of HIM at University Hospital which is a large teaching facility.  She was surprised that the HIM department did not have any specific committee structure in place.  The specific HIM committees that Jody should think about implementing would be:

Which of the following is not an external force impacting

Mark is the new director of HIM at a large haelthcare organization.  In orientation he was shown the hospital’s organization chart.  He noticed that the chart demonstrated a combination of interconnected horizontal networks with divisions that have mulitple reporting lines.  This is an example of a __________ organizational model?

Weekly, a group of clinical caregivers have been meeting informally to discuss outcomes for patients within the intensive care unit.  This group would like to pursue formal quality improvement initiatives, but the quality management department will not assist the group until it becomes a formal ____________.

Mary is an RHIT who has just been promoted to a coding manager position within her healthcare organization.  Mary realizes that she needs to obtain a bachelors’ degree in order to manage her employees more effectively.  Mary is working toward ________.

What kind of planning addresses long-term needs and sets comprehensive plans of actions? 

Why should the OT practitioner be versed in the guidelines to the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics?

Ethics is an integral part of EVERY society and culture.

A set of norms that are derived from common morality:

As an OTA, you are expected to treat all clients the same regardless of socioeconomic class, payer type, gender, age, race or background. By doing so, you are following which principle?