by Melissa Varnavas

As a young journalist on deadline, I stared down a blank white computer screen as the clock ticked toward midnight, pondering an exposition regarding my home town’s complicated municipal budget. In the end, I settled on introducing the article with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort…”

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Though 93% of respondents to an ACDIS Radio poll review surgical and operative notes, this area can pose a daunting hurdle for CDI teams, said Frances Frank, RN, MBA/MSN/HCM, CPHQ, manager of CDI at Stanford (California) Health Care, on the March 22 episode, “ACDIS conference preview: Anatomy of a surgical note.”

Joining in on the ACDIS Forum can be a great way to receive valuable feedback from CDI peers, glean from their experiences, and share your own experiences to help others out. If it’s your first time perusing the Forum threads, make sure to review how to participate, here. That way, when you encounter something you’d like to weigh in on, you’ll be ready to go!

Hosting a local chapter meeting, especially if it is your first one, can seem daunting and complicated. To help you with the process, ACDIS provides chapter leaders with a number of meeting planning resources for every step in the process. The following tips and tricks (and many more) can be found under the “Getting Started” section on the Local Chapter landing page.