Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 200250 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
Using course materials and online resources, respond to the following scenario:
Mr. Shield is being sent home after surgery (discharged). He may need a follow-up visit, called a postoperative clinic visit, or a call by a surgical specialty nurse or physician assistant. A surgery follow-up note documents and explains that visit or phone call. The practitioner in the surgeons office will document the patients history and exam results as well as the evaluation and plan for further treatment and management.
. Then, complete the following:
- Explain to Mr. Shield and his family in your own words (using laymans terms) what each section (subjective, objective, and impression/plan) of the Surgery Follow-Up Note means.
- To do this, you will have to look up all of the bold terms and abbreviations in the EHR Surgery Follow-Up Note.
