Surprises & Shananigans

So this week was a fun week!

Like I said before, mostly everyone is on mental vacation already so the QA/Coverage staff seized the opportunity to have some fun with our Christmas gifts for the staff. We were in charge of gifts for the business office and patient managers, and we decided to make light of the general hatred for the tasks we are sometimes required to do. For those of you who don't know, that includes auditing charts and finding everything wrong with them then making everyone correct the mistakes.

 So we decided as part of our gift, we would include a target with the QA staff picture on it that they could post on their wall and shoot with a nerf gun - also included of course. It was an absolute hit!! (No pun intended of course). And what made it better is my brother helped with the design of the target and it turned out fabulous. My favorite part was the delivery of these gifts, which was done under the pretense we were actually coming to audit charts at each of the locations and got the patient manager's dreading our arrival. Much to their relief it was only cookies and a gag gift!

This week I also had my first chance to help with a doctor's luncheon. This is part of Marino Therapy Center's marketing techniques, and on top of bringing in lunch for the office staff we have one of our therapists come in and speak a little with the doctors to educate them how therapy could benefit their patients. Now usually, this is very effective EXCEPT when the doctor starts flirting with the therapists or our marketing manager. Needless to say it didn't go quite as planned lol.

Besides getting a little bit flustered and red faced, Heidi handled it well and no harm was done - but it made my first experience with neurologists an interesting one! At least I had great one-on-one time with one of my bosses on the car ride and had the opportunity to get to know my co-workers even better.

Later Everybody!