Charting or documenting is a critical part of excellent patient care. However, it often becomes overwork. That is, work that keeps you late or you end up taking home with you. If you’re stuck in the defeating cycle of completing work at night or on the weekends, this episode is for you. And although I mainly discuss charting by physicians, the principles I share in this episode can be applied to any necessities work. Your “charting” can be any task you find yourself routinely behind on.
Throughout addressing my own tendency to fall behind, I was forced to examine the true reasons behind it. Not just the obvious, surface reasons (such as having too many patients) but the root causes. In this episode, I share some of what I discovered and how it resulted in taking chart work home. Perhaps you will be able to relate. I also share what I did to break the unpaid cycle of charting at home and hope my discoveries can help you.
“I think it’s a major cause of dissatisfaction with physicians and other health care providers. I think this is probably true in other fields as well. All of the work that we do that is sort of, in a sense, unpaid, on our own time. It can create a lot of feelings of resentment, dissatisfaction, and sort of sucks some of the joy out of our day and the rest of our life.” – Dr. Sara Dill
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