Our company requires us to obtain any, and all info when feasible regardless of the nature of the call (911 vs. IFT).Why would you be collecting and/or putting the SSN in a narrative? Or anywhere for that matter?
Unless your company specifically instructs you to collect it on a billing sheet and has a spot for it, then there is zero reason to collect it. In all my years, the ONLY time I had or knew a patient's SSN was when I was doing interfacility transports and it was either on their discharge paperwork or was part of their Medicare number.
This! I miss this option in our ePCR program. Good ol "copy and paste".No, my PCR has a box for the ssn. I usually try to get it since I can use it to see if their info is already in our database.
Op, this. There are other things to focus on as a care provider.I would ask a clarifying question and make sure that's what they want you to do. If the company wants you to put "Note: Unable to obtain SSN; pt did not know it" in the narrative, I would not push back. I find it neither appropriate nor particularly inappropriate. A comment box in the demographics section seems better, but it's not worth potentially being considered a difficult employee.
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ThisIf it is helpful if we get it. I would never put it in the narrative though.
Also if I have their social, I can import demographics if we have previously transported them.
And physical address, mailing address, phone, insurance information, district residency, next of kin, and previously reported medical history. All that I otherwise have to hunt and peck on a tablet to type otherwise.Yes, because asking name, birthday, address, sex and race is far too time consuming. I get it.