Hi Reader,
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My current work-related projected is improving my documentation.

Currently, I feel like I include too much information and repeat myself too much.

So, I spent several hours last week doing research and making a draft cheat sheet.

It's helping!

Once I've made adjustments and make it easier to scan, I'll share it with you.

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​🧠What I'm working on

With over 130 free PDF downloads, even I forget what I have!

I'm working on publishing a spiral-bound book to sell for a modest profit.

Here are what I think the key benefits would be:

1. Flipping through a book could make it easier to discover handouts to use.
2. Making copies from a spiral-bound book would be easier than from a regular book.
3. I need to earn enough to cover my costs and my time in order to continue creating. Affiliate marketing and tips on Buy Me a Coffee are so helpful, but I need to expand into a new revenue stream.

The content on the blog will continue being freely available.

Please let me know your thoughts!

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​Goal Attainment Scaling tutorial: This is a great way to devise a personalized assessment tool that will demonstrate the progress your patient makes during therapy.

• GAS serves as its own assessment tool and outcome measure.
• Use during therapy to help patients be proactive in meeting their own goals.

The free download is a simple worksheet to use with patients. There are 5 boxes to show the possible outcomes when you reassess.

• Write the baseline performance in "Less than expected." If a person is still at this level when you reassess or discharge, they didn't make the expected progress.
  • If goal is maintenance, write baseline performance in "expected".
• Write the reasonable goal in "Expected"
• Write stretch goals in "Better than expected" and "Much better than expected".
• In "Much less than expected", write what it would look like if the patient lost ground.

🌐 Something worth sharing​
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• Incorrect race-based adjustments to medical test results can even be hidden from doctors.
• Dr. Joel Bervell shares information about how lung function machines still aren't fixed and how this has affected Black and Asian people.

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Stay safe and be well,

Lisa
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