The course is based on a recording of one of the presentations of the Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine EHR and Tech Expo which took place May 21-22, 2022. Those who signed up for the live expo are eligible for additional PDA if they did not attend during the live expo. The NCCAOM Certificates for the live expo were sent to attendees of the original expo by email if they were present at the expo. Those who then watched recordings of the presentations between May 22-Jun 22, 2022 are enrolled, but will need to have been verified that they did watch the recorded content, fill out the NCCAOM worksheet and take the final quiz to get a certificate.
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Description:
Quick review of SOAP documentation. Learn how & why to correctly use a validated pain scale in your chart note. Review of a basic subjective measure (metric) clinicians should use to document acute and chronic pain conditions, with a focus on the workers’ comp model of care, for both private practice and healthcare system-based practice LAcs. This is also useful for LAcs preparing to treat future patients who have federal insurance coverage (Medicare, etc.).
Learning Objectives:
• Review of SOAP documentation basics.
• Why you should use a validated pain scale in your documentation.
• How to use a validated pain scale, with a focus on the DVPRS.
• What metrics this should be paired with as part of treatment plans and reporting on clinical outcomes for programs like workers’ comp or Medicare.
• This presentation is just an introduction to using a basic subjective metric in pain management. It will help you get started in using clinical metrics in your documentation.
About Megan Kinglsey Gale
Megan Kingsley Gale graduated from Bastyr University’s Master of Science in acupuncture and oriental medicine program in 2006. She attended the University of Minnesota, Duluth, campus for her undergraduate education and has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in biology, pre-medicine track. She has volunteered or been employed in the hospital setting intermittently since 2022 in both civilian and military medical centers. She believes community-building activities and service to others are integral to life. She works on the HHP to help others in the healthcare system LAc practice connect and resources to help them and their programs succeed. Her healthcare system-based practice background is in the functional rehabilitation pain management model and team-based clinical care. She brought this experience to her volunteer work on the workers’ comp committee with the Washington state professional acupuncturist association (then WEAMA) in 2016 – 2018. As a WEAMA volunteer and then WEAMA L&I committee chair, she was the liaison to the WA state L&I Acupuncture Pilot committee to advise on standards and practical aspects (from the LAc) perspective of the pilot, including documentation standards. For the last several years, Megan has volunteered as director of The Hospital Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and their Hospital Sponsors. She founded this nonprofit community project in 2015 to create a resource for hospital LAcs to connect and share wisdom because this was a resource she wished existed when she was working as a hospital-based practice acupuncturist. The HHP has grown, and it is now a program of a 501c3 nonprofit, Free Range Health. The HHP is the go-to resource for hospital and healthcare system-based employment practices and program standards. We have resources for closed community discussion (synchronous and asynchronous) and a public webinar presentation series, the Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar & interview series. www.thehospitalhandbook.com