Various articles in online and print newsletters and forums
Poem: "The Glow"
Poem: "Evolution of a Pain"
Writing Samples
ARTICLE
This is an article from a medical newsletter where the goal was to describe hospital reimbursement and the role of nursing documentation in reimbursement.
"ALPHABET SOUP - Understanding Hospital Reimbursement Terminology and the Role of Nursing and Documentation "
Understanding basic hospital reimbursement concepts. Hospitals receive reimbursement for some patients, such as Medicare patients, based on a Prospective Payment System (PPS). The Prospective Payment System was created by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) in 1983 to control skyrocketing Medicare costs. This system reimburses hospitals for Medicare acute inpatient care based on expected costs rather than the previous method of accrued costs. These expected costs are projected by Diagnosis Related Groups. Read complete article
TRAINING MANUAL
This is a chapter excerpt from a technical training manual where the goal was to create a basic HTML training manual for new HTML users.
HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, is a language of codes (called “tags”).These tags are used to specify the formatting of text documents for display on the World Wide Web (WWW) as Web pages.
Tags are codes that are inserted into text to create the elements for a Web page.For example, in order for a segment of text to be in bold, the bold tag must be entered before and after the segment of text so that the appropriate portion of text will be shown in bold on the Web page.
The markup language works by defining these tags that are used to specify the format or function on a page.A program application is then required to interpret the markup language and apply the correct formatting from these tags.For HTML, this program is the Web browser, which interprets the tags in an HTML document and displays the page with the correct formatting. See Sample Chapter