Jason sent me this great dot phrase this morning that creates a pull-down list of contact numbers for specialty scheduling. I used it this morning in an email to a patient to help her get hooked up with ENT without having her (or me) waste time looking for contact numbers.
.1referral (Central)
.1referralsouth (Tacoma)
.1referraleast (Bellevue)
Giving patients a contact number is easy and removes a barrier to getting good care.
We've heard that patients get lost in transitions between primary and specialty care. This is just one small step, short of introducing them to their specialist, to help make that gap smaller.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Neti Pot instructions
This is my .netipot phrase for sinus rinses. -Wellesley
Rinsing your sinuses with warm salt water can be very helpful for people with congestion due to allergies or chronic sinusitis. There are many techniques, but I recommend using a neti pot.
A neti pot, which looks like a tea pot, is filled with warm, slightly salted water and the spout of the pot is inserted into one nostril. Water flows through the sinuses and out of the other nostril.
The technique is not as uncomfortable or difficult as you may think at first. It only takes about 3 minutes to do, once you learn it.
Here's how it works:
1. Prepare the saline solution (1/2 tsp table salt1/2 tsp baking soda in 1 cup tap water). with lukewarm water and fill the neti pot. Hot water is irritating and dangerous. Cool water is not soothing.
2. Tilt your head to the side.
3. Insert spout of neti pot gently into the raised nostril creating a seal between the neti pot and the nostril. If it drains out of your mouth, lower your forehead in relation to your chin. Relax. If you are calm, the water flows right through. But if you aren't, it just won't flow. If you keep breathing through your mouth, relaxed, the water should gently flow through the nose on its own. There's no forcing it.
4. Raise the neti pot slowly to develop a steady flow of saline solution through the upper nostril and out the lower nostril.
5. During the process breathe through your mouth.
6. When you're done, exhale firmly several times to clear the nasal passages.
7. Reverse the tilt of your head and repeat the process on the other side.
Rinsing your sinuses with warm salt water can be very helpful for people with congestion due to allergies or chronic sinusitis. There are many techniques, but I recommend using a neti pot.
A neti pot, which looks like a tea pot, is filled with warm, slightly salted water and the spout of the pot is inserted into one nostril. Water flows through the sinuses and out of the other nostril.
The technique is not as uncomfortable or difficult as you may think at first. It only takes about 3 minutes to do, once you learn it.
Here's how it works:
1. Prepare the saline solution (1/2 tsp table salt1/2 tsp baking soda in 1 cup tap water). with lukewarm water and fill the neti pot. Hot water is irritating and dangerous. Cool water is not soothing.
2. Tilt your head to the side.
3. Insert spout of neti pot gently into the raised nostril creating a seal between the neti pot and the nostril. If it drains out of your mouth, lower your forehead in relation to your chin. Relax. If you are calm, the water flows right through. But if you aren't, it just won't flow. If you keep breathing through your mouth, relaxed, the water should gently flow through the nose on its own. There's no forcing it.
4. Raise the neti pot slowly to develop a steady flow of saline solution through the upper nostril and out the lower nostril.
5. During the process breathe through your mouth.
6. When you're done, exhale firmly several times to clear the nasal passages.
7. Reverse the tilt of your head and repeat the process on the other side.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Marty's Tylenol dot phrase
Acetaminophen (brand name is tylenol) is an effective pain medication. It comes in different sized pills but the medicine is identical in each pill. The difference in name is part of the marketing by the drug manufacturer. Save your money and buy the generic acetaminophen.
The different dose sizes are as follows: 325 mg (regular strength), 500 mg (extra strength), and 650 mg (arthritis strength).
You may take acetaminophen 1-4 times per day. Up to 2500 mg in 24 hours is safe.
The different dose sizes are as follows: 325 mg (regular strength), 500 mg (extra strength), and 650 mg (arthritis strength).
You may take acetaminophen 1-4 times per day. Up to 2500 mg in 24 hours is safe.
Welcome to the Burien Tips Blog!
Hi all. As promised, here is the new repository for tips and techniques BRN providers use in daily practice. I'll post things here like Epic dot phrases you can paste into your Epic Tools, links you might want to use in MyEpic, and other, (mostly) technical tips we can share to make busy days run a little more smoothly.
Send me your tips and I'll post them here right away. At least initially, I'll let you know with an email whenever I post something.
I'm also restricting access, for now, to our practice group.
Send me your tips and I'll post them here right away. At least initially, I'll let you know with an email whenever I post something.
I'm also restricting access, for now, to our practice group.
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