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Getting Your Notes Done on Time Leverage the skills of your team members. ... Get done what you can in the room. ... Know the E/M documentation guidelines. ... Use your basic EHR functions. ... Let go of perfection. ... Forget the ?opus.? The clinical note serves as neither biography nor ethnography. ... Time yourself.

General rules for charting include documenting all patient interactions, writing legibly and accurately, using standardized abbreviations and terminology, using a chronological format for recording events, and using the same charting system for all patients.

So, if you do not sign your chart until three days after you see a patient, the chart is unbillable. Unbilled charts mean that you will not receive relative value unit (RVU) credit for the chart.

On admission and at the commencement of each shift, all 'required documentation' must be completed to comply with the National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards. There is an expectation that shift required documentation is completed within 3 hours of shift start time.

RULE #1: Get it done on time Physicians should aim to complete charts immediately after treatment when details are still fresh. Most hospitals set time limits for when documentation is due: within 24 hours for admitting notes, 48 hours for surgical procedures and 15 days after discharge for completing the record.

The basics of clinical documentation Date, time and sign every entry. ... Write your name and role as a heading and the names and roles of all others present at the encounter. Make entries immediately or as soon as possible after care is given. ... Be legible. ... Be thorough, accurate, and objective. Maintain a professional tone.

I've come to think of it as the Golden Rule of Charts and Graphs: Display all the information you need to tell an honest story, and no more.