Does your program offer Working from Home?

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We are in the process of re doing the work from home policy. We currently are allowed 1 day a week from home (we have a full EMR). We are revamping but wanted to see what others were doing. Do any of you guys offer this? If so how often (once a week, twice a week, set amount of hours?) How do you handle daily rounds, if you round, on those days? Does anyone have a sample policy?
Thanks!!
Tiffany
Lead Clinical Doc Spec
UNC Hospitals

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  • cbarnescbarnes
    edited May 2016
    not @ our hospital

  • Unknown
    edited May 2016
    I have not seen any programs where CDIS are permitted to work from home. While working from home may be permissible and feasable with coding and transcription, CDI is not conducive to being "off premises." Working from home detracts from the effectiveness of CDI in the sense there is absence face to face presence and interaction of the physician.


  • catladyrncatladyrn
    No, we don't, but we're still struggling with how to round and how to find the docs that we need to see, given the very large hospital, many many nursing units, and constant physician rotation. Without any kind of paper chart, it's been really hard to find the docs. If we could solve that, I think we ought to be able to go to at least a partial work from home.

    Renee


    Linda Renee Brown, RN, CCRN, CCDS
    Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist
    Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
  • kelleywalrathkelleywalrath
    edited May 2016
    Having worked in a virtual office, I must say that it goes a long way to
    preserving longevity in a position. I also got a lot more done.

    Most Cdi work 5 days a week and for those with families etc. or have
    chronic flareups of a condition, it makes sense for a well focused
    person - which most of us are or we could not make it as CDI - to
    occasionally perform the job from home. Far less call outs, happier
    CDI's, and far less turnover should happen.

    I do agree that the position should primarily be where physician
    interaction is done but for someone to do once a week or on those days
    you could work but shouldn't or can't that, I see no problem.

  • cbarnescbarnes
    edited May 2016
    I think it would be wonderful to work from home.

    Speaking from experience, before my husband passed away, I was absent quite a bit. I could have done quite a bit of work @ home if it had been allowed and that would have helped my co-workers, immensely.

    As it was, I had to be counted absent, if not physically on site. I wouldn't have had to rely on family leave as much if I had an alternative to work from home. With his NHL, chemo, radiation and the BMT, 12 weeks of FMLA hardly suffices.

    Not to mention....pulling yourself back together after a funeral.

  • lspryszaklspryszak
    Charlene:

    My sincere condolences on your loss. Your experience is a good example of how working at home can be a godsend for employees.

    I am an advocate of face-to-face communication, but allowing employees the option of "electronic reviews" for special circumstances (illness, weather, etc.) would help retain staff.
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