By Allen Frady, RN-BSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC

Our lives as CDI specialists revolve around largely repetitive work. Our time is spent on indicators, numbers, data, crunching and parsing opposing viewpoints. It’s safe to say that it isn’t exactly creating a piece of craftsmanship we can sell as a work of art or exhibit in a display case. Others save the world, climb mountains, invent life changing technology, or find a way to peer into our soul and show us something within ourselves we didn’t even know existed. CDI specialists review records and walk a daily tightrope between reporting clinical accuracy and reporting correct resource utilization.

Yet, we must work to ensure that we perform our roles at a previously unachieved level of excellence.