For this assignment, you are an HIM Supervisor in a HIM department with a staff of 35 employees and you have just hired a new release of information technician. Prepare an orientation plan for your new employee. Your orientation plan should include a list of items/activities that the new employee will participate in for the first five days in the department.

• Your plan should include orientation activities specific to the HIM department assume the employee has already attended an organization-wide orientation so you dont need to include activities such as benefits review or other corporate policy review. (Think about what someone new coming into the department should know about the department)
  • Include at list of at least three documents you would have the employee review.
  • Include at least three other activities besides document review that would orient the employee to the department/staff.

• Your plan should also include orientation activities specific to training for the release of information position. (Think about what a new release of information technician will need to know to perform the job consider equipment, information systems, software applications, procedures, and resources.) Assume that your organization has an electronic health record.

• Your plan should include the job title of the person responsible for providing each orientation item

• Your plan should include scheduled date(s) and times for each orientation/training item and plan for five eight-hour days. Each day should be logically planned regarding time. For example, it should not take an entire day to review several policies/procedures. Or it should not take several hours to tour the department and introduce employees.

****You do not need to write policies/procedures, job descriptions, detailed training instructions, etc. Just state the documents or activities you plan to include in your orientation/training. For example, Review of HIM department policies.

****Assume that the employee has already attended a one-day organization-wide orientation program that covered hospital policies/procedures and employee benefits, etc. Your orientation/training plan should focus on orienting the new employee to the HIM department and the specific position for which the employee has been hired.