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Testing. Testing. Is this thing on.

I am new to the great big sea of information that is Therap. I have been swimming in it for about a year and have come to realize a few things. First, the deeper into Therap one goes the more amazing it is. Second is that fact that once you step into the Therap waters you are carried swiftly (and gladly) into those deeper waters. And finally I have learned that no matter how deep you get there is always a friendly Therapite to guide you.

Until next time this is Craig, from the blue waters of the Pacific Northwest, signing off… Wait is this thing still on.

The Therap National Conference is in 2 weeks! I cannot wait to attend this conference because there are so many experts at the same place at the same time! I plan to attend some sessions about billing and want to learn more about CCHIT. I also want to catch some of the awesome presentations from other Therap users. I hope you are signed up for this conference and can’t wait to see you in New Jersey!

Michelle

As my agency delves further into TMS, some interesting questions arise. We are trying to figure out if there is a way to sign employees up for a training session who do not work for our agency. Has anyone encountered this, and if so, how did you deal with this?
A feature I would like to see Therap add is S-Comm notification to be sent to a supervisor when a learner is due for training. Would this assist any other agencies?

Let me know your thoughts and ideas!

Thanks!
Michelle

I’m looking for ideas and a better way to track information so here goes:

Each day we are tracking what individuals are having for lunch. We need to know the specifics on what they ate not just the percentages. It really doesn’t matter what time as generally everyone eats lunch between 11:00 and 1:00 so time is irrelevant
Right now we are creating a t-log on Monday then updating each day titling it the dates of the week. This works but we really can’t run a report and you can’t see each day separately when you export it to excel. I know we could do one for each day but that’s a lot of t-logs to review by staff in addition to the other things.
I have looked into the intake/elimination area but that doesn’t show comments (if we were to put the food at lunch in that box) when we run reports.

Any help would be appreciated. Any ideas on where else to track this?

Hello everyone!

Our three year accreditation survey with CARF will be happening sometime in June. I am happy to note that we will be completing the survey in a completely electronic manner. We worked hard to prepare to have this survey be all electronic and I am happy to share Therap and many other forward thinking ideas with the CARF surveyors.
Have any of you been through a CARF survey since you began using Therap? If so, what did you notice that was different as a result of using Therap? Who has completed a survey in an electronic format? Any words of wisdom?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.

Michelle

Sometimes when things are bad or when something just isn’t going the way we want it to go it can easily change our attitude and impact the rest of our day. These are the times when we as supervisors or leaders, need to be aware of others around us and take signs from the individuals we support.  Taking the time to acknowledge those little things that staff are doing, saying ‘thanks’ more often, bringing in donuts for everyone or even making sure we smile can turn anyone’s day around.

We have to remember “What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”

Take time this week to let your actions speak louder than your words and go that extra mile for those at work or at home. If a mile seems too long, then just take a step but do something.

So which do you use?

At my agency, we use a combination of T-Girl and a live trainer. We utilize a 4 hour block of time (with 3 ten minute breaks.) Here is an overview of what we do:

• T-logs:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Review by live trainer of expectations of documentation at our agency
- Trainee documents T-Log in Test Mode

• GERs:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Trainee documents section by section with live trainer and focuses on agency policies and procedures.

• S-Comm:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Trainer sends S-Comm to all trainees
- Trainee sends an S-Comm to trainer

• Health Tracking:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Trainee documents simultaneously while T-Girls discusses how to document a seizure

• Reports:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Live trainer reviews specific information depending on super roles assigned to trainees

• Help and Support:
- Overview by T-Girl
- Discussion by live trainer regarding Therap Support, Issues, Live Help, Help and Support
- Overview by live trainer regarding TMS

• ISP Data:
- Overview by live trainer regarding what ISP Data is
- Trainee documents a goal in Test Mode

• Individual Home:
- Live trainer shows this new feature in Therap and encourages trainees to use this

We end the training with an evaluation of the training (a open ended questionnaire) and have received great feedback using both the Automated training and a live trainer.
We also have, “Therap Office hours” on payday Fridays (every other Friday) that allow users to brush up and ask questions about Therap.
Please let me know what innovative tips you have for training new/existing employees!

Michelle

Hello everybody, Alison has been emailing me and telling me to get on here and share something so I thought I would just pop in today.
First of all, I just became a trainer in NY and am excited for more things to come. We have been trying out some new things and am thankful for some of the ideas and things that have been shared by all of you.
I’m looking for pointers on my first webinar – that seems so scary but I’ll try everything once. So if you have any great insight, please pass it on.
Looking forward to getting to know everyone more and for all the adventures we’ll have together in the future.
If you are in KC, stop in and see us.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day and remember to ‘disable the label’ this month for DD Awareness.

Hi everybody!

I am looking to use the sign up agreement for policy acknowledgment and had a couple of questions. If anybody can help me out, I would really appreciate it.

1. Is there a way to check who has read and acknowledged (i.e. agreed) with the policy that is noted as a sign up agreement? How do you do this?
2. What if someone chooses to disagree? Are they unable to access Therap’s first page until they have agreed?

Thanks for your help! Happy President’s Day!

Michelle

I was talking with our Director of Finance the other day and she questioned me about Therap having a payroll application for employees. I noted that I thought this would be a spectacular idea and would post this information in hopes that my fellow certified trainers would provide some thoughts about whether or not their agencies would benefit from such an application.

Our agency looked into other payroll applications and they either did not fit our needs (we were told we had too many cost centers, 24 hour care was an issue, logging in and out repeatedly throughout the day to meet consumer needs was problematic, etc.) Having a payroll application within Therap would be one stop shopping for employees and administrative personnel at an agency.

What does everybody else think about this? I look forward to hearing from you!

Michelle