#intake process

[mus1g4]

Could you explain how head shaves are done? Do you do them restrained, etc.

The first thing to note is that head shaves are one of my absolute favorite aspects of prison intake and I would, if given carte blanche, head shave every inmate that signs up for Hampton! Obviously, that is not the case. We will do head shaves only based on a specific request by the inmate prior to arrival. Because of certain licensing laws in Iowa (where Hampton is located) we technically cannot cut hair for a fee, so we have to be very careful how we approach this.

If you were to simply request a head shave as a part of intake, you would likely be sheared immediately following your intake search and shower. If this was a request as a cooperative inmate, you would simply be seated in a chair in the intake shower corridor and shaved down.

If you were to resist or request a forced head shave, we would use one of our two restraint chairs, strap you down and shave your fucking skull as roughly as possible. In this case, please specifically ask for Pitbull!! I would bery much enjoy shaving you down!

In either circumstance, if you want a before and after mug shot that will be done for you!

[vishalpanchal]

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[mconsent]

Creating a Patient-Centered Intake Process | mConsent

Want to make sure your dental office is meeting patients’ expectations when it comes to your intake process? Patient intake forms are the primary element we think of when it comes to intake processes, but other factors also play a role. In this article, we’ll discuss how to make sure your intake process is top-notch.

Why Traditional Intake Processes are Insufficient

The old-fashioned routine of manual processes slows down the flow of operations. This includes appointment-scheduling via phone calls, paper intake forms, scanning, calling insurance payers for eligibility status, and manually entering data into your practice management system. Patients expect more from dental practices nowadays, and particularly want the following:

Self-serve appointment scheduling online

Paperless Patient Intake Forms

Ability to send IDs, insurance info and documents before the visit

Insurance eligibility status before arriving

No more waiting room time

How to Scale up the Process

To improve your patients’ experience, it’s important to realize your areas of weakness and enhance them with proven methods. Let’s discuss the areas listed above that patients want enhanced.

(1) Self-serve appointment scheduling online

How many patient phone calls go unanswered at your practice? Or how often do patients get placed on hold? Practices that continue to provide only one route for appointment scheduling - via phone calls, are missing out on opportunities to grow their patient base. /

Self-serve online appointment scheduling has become a popular tool that patients love, and expect from their dental provider. With this convenient self-service option, patients no longer have to play phone tag or be placed on hold. They can book an appointment at any time, from any device, at their own convenience.

The best part is that with online scheduling, your office will no longer miss opportunities for new patient appointments. It’s affordable and easy to incorporate within your website.

(2) Paperless Patient Intake Forms & Capturing IDs

Completing stacks of paper forms at the office, forgetting to bring medication lists, and having to hand over IDs, insurance cards, etc - is annoying for patients. They want the easy route of being able to complete forms and submit documents before the visit. Paperless patient intake forms are a perfect solution to simplifying the process.

Patients enjoy being able to complete forms and capture photos, IDs, insurance cards, and documents while on their sofa at home. They can use any device and electronically sign for easy submission.

A huge plus is the speed of this digital process. Once submitted forms are approved, they integrate directly into your practice management system (e.g. Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, and Dolphin). It’s a simplified approach that eliminates waiting room time, and creates happy patients.

(3) Insurance eligibility status before arriving

Insurance woes not only bog down office staff, but also patients. Patients dread dealing with insurance payers due to the long phone calls and frequent misunderstandings. By verifying insurance for patients before they step in the door, you're off to a much smoother start.

Automated insurance verification is a new innovation that has put insurance headaches to rest for thousands of practices and patients. It frequently allows practices to verify a patient’s insurance eligibility status within seconds.

Automated insurance verification has proven to be a reliable and accurate method for preventing claim denials and delays. Patients have been highly impressed with offices using automated insurance verification, as it alleviates their insurance anxiety and provides transparency about coverage, without the long wait.

(4) No more waiting room time

What’s the first thing patients typically complain about when it comes to dental visits? Long waiting room times are a primary concern that almost everyone can relate to.

Becoming a practice that puts an end to long wait times, will garner more new patients and skyrocket your patient base. Implementing the above-discussed features into your practice is a guaranteed way of doing just that.

By allowing patients to digitally complete intake forms and capture all necessary documents before the visit, you’ll be doing away with tasks that create long patient wait times - e.g. printing, finding charts, paperwork, scanning, and manual data entries.

Automating your insurance verification process also reduces waiting room time significantly by allowing a faster and more trustworthy process for obtaining patients’ eligibility reports.

Conclusion:

A patient-centered intake process means placing patient convenience and satisfaction at the forefront of how you operate. Patients expect dental practices to offer intake processes that improve the speed of service, provide better accuracy, and empower patients with self-service options.

Find out how mConsent’s digital innovations can help you create a fast and simplified intake process that will boost your patients’ experience.

[leverage-ot3]

HAPPY DAY!!!

after being on a waitlist for like eight (8) months I finally had my intake appointment for the ED clinic 😭😭😭🫡🫡🫡

[irondadmadlads]

Irondad Prompt #192:

TW: Sensory Processing Disorder, Eating Disorders, Avoidant/Restrive Food Intake Disorder/Selective Eating Disorder. Please stay safe and skip this prompt if these topics will upset you

Ever since the bite, Peter’s been weird around food. Sure, he needs to eat more because of his metabolism, but he just doesn’t seem to have an appetite and even small meals fill him up. Not to mention, he’s oddly selective. Sure, he’d theoretically love to try the new thai place with May or shawarma from Tony’s favorite restaurant, yet the thought of trying something unfamiliar causes his heart to beat out of his chest.

When Tony and May notice his odd behavior they set up an appointment with Dr. Cho. After a few evaluations, she comes to the conclusion Peter is struggling with Avoidant/Restrive Food Intake Disorder - an eating disorder in which someone finds difficulty in eating certain foods due to their sensory inputs* (looks, smells, feels, etc).

A/n: With all prompts, please tag me if you write them, but especially this one. It’s very personal to me.

*There’s more than one type of ARFID. What Peter is struggling with in this prompt is the avoidant type.

[tj-crochets]

I still cannot work on the quilt yet, so lunch break time is puzzle time! It’s a puzzle of old cans of soda. Also, cans of sparkling Gatorade????? I did not know that was a thing that ever existed

[quirinah]

how do you get your colors to look so nice and your lineart so red and vibrant? i love it

omg anon thank you!! 😭 im going 2 be honest I am Not Great with color theory... but i like having my sketch pages look cohesive to me...

BUCKLE UP this is going to need a readmore bc i like talking.

I always sketch in neon colors it's a habit i picked up from an old teacher but I'll think of a color usually on a whim and draw with that. and then if i want to draw something else ill pick another color that i think goes well with the page. usually most of my color schemes r analogous (colors right next to each other on the wheel)

yanked this from recent dunmesh post; i kept most of my colors within the pink/red/orange range.

i wouldn't recommend doing everything in monochrome or analogous palettes though because it's sort of a guilty crutch of mine XD.

sometimes when im coloring ill change the layer mode of the sketch. color burn gets you either very very bright or very very deep colors depending on the color of the flats underneath. multiply and linear burn do the same thing but they're a lot tamer and generally always return darker colors. im sure there's some technical bits behind this though. ill either color my lineart afterward to compliment the color of the flats, leave it as is, or mess with layer modes if i feel like it. my favorite trick is color burn + linear burn + some combination of two lineart layers and just fiddling until i get a nice burn effect.

mithrun was done with crimson red on color burn.

coloring... like 999% of this is relative color which is like. kind of the idea that colors look different when placed next to each other. if you eyeball it a bit it's pretty noticeable.

what i used to do a bit ago was i would fill in the area i wanted to color with one big mask of color, make a new layer that has a clipping mask down to the flat layer of color, and then draw my actual flat colors. the color of the mask helped me pick my flat colors bc if I picked a color i think stood out too much next to the mask i could kind of just adjust it until it looked a little more cohesive.

old ish drawing next 2 a canon reference. i ignore local color a lot...mea culpa....but my overall color palette here was a light pink, so the shirt here is actually a desaturated pink? or violet i believe. if you shift sort of that purple color far enough into the gray area of your color wheel it can take on a blueish or even greenish hue. it being next to a lot of warm pinks/fuschias helps.

a neat thing that kind of helps is that if you desaturate or saturate certain colors they can kind of take on a certain hue? not sure if this makes sense. sort of how orange here turns tealish blue the grayer it gets. so if im drawing something that's predominantly orange and i have a blue color i can just take an orange color and desaturate it until i get a color that sort of looks like blue. and that way it kind of looks more harmonious? at least to me XD

shading. i don't apply serious lighting to a lot of my drawings, but a helpful bit is that the shadows tend to be the opposite of whatever color the lighting is? i try to think first about the "mood" or the main color i want to go for in the drawing and then i pick a shadow color opposite of that. so for here, i wanted the lighting to be a coolish magenta so the shadows r lime green. if there's anything off i fiddle around until i get something i like. the shadows on the skin here were too green initially so i shifted them a little more orange.

there's a "band" of color going on between the transition of the shadows to the light. generally this could be for a lot of reasons and i tend to use it differently (core shadow? overexposure? etc etc). but this is a color post so ill try not to go too off track.

but generally digital doesn't "mix" colors the same way traditional colors do if you use RGB (cmyk is a bit better with this but is kind of a pain to get used to), so to make blending a little less muddy, i sometimes add an intermediate color to smooth things out a little. for example, mixing digitally blue n yellow tends to get you gray, but generally, blue + yellow makes green, so if im making a blue->yellow transition ill slap some green color in the middle so it flows a little better.

I do a lot more cel shading nowadays. if you've been on here for a while earlier this year i have another style of coloring but it's not really accurate to how shadows really work so i wouldn't recommend looking at it. it's mostly to add zest and texture to the underlying flat colors.

coloring your lineart does a TON to helping your colors look vibrant, though its like the garnish on a dish to me (same with shadows). i think it's good to try and play with your flat colors and try to make sure those look in order first before adding flourishes. usually ill leave it a dark, saturated color that again matches my overall palette but sometimes i go in and color them by alpha locking my lineart layer and picking a color that matches the flat colors underneath? not sure how to explain it properly.

i used a darkish purple for shuro's ponytail to match the dull red of the flat colors (more relative color! trying to simulate a black/brown while keeping the pink palette there) but a lighter crimson for laios's blond. the light was this super intense like blush pink so i thought it might be cool to add this neon salmon red in the areas of that light to really give off that vibe of a very bright intense rim light.

sometimes you could also tweak with gradient maps or color balance, which adjusts hue based on how light or dark a color is. these r fun to mess with as a final touch but i need to watch using them because they can become crutches real fast XD but those are also just tools to help you. in the end just developing a good sense of how color works and how you want to use it is the best place to start.

LONGASS ramble but yeah. tldr just kind of train ur eye for color and look at what you like best. which is unhelpful and a little sucky but it really is just observation and practice and maybe some personal zest.

happy drawing!

[aromantyczno-liryczna]

Guess who has a vitamin d deficiency 🙂🙂🙂

[butch--dean]

when will my ability to make amvs come back from war

[rubberduckyrye]

Google how to make yourself feel better when you're having a fit of depression without caving in to your emotional crutch on soda while also not feeling like you're restricting and accidentally reliving a food-related trauma that makes me feel worse about restricting--

[musingsofanaroace]

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

In this post, I will discuss ARFID, a type of eating disorder that has nothing to do with body image issues or a desire to lose weight. Instead, other factors restrict eating. To better understand this disorder, it's necessary to first describe the different types a person can have.

Avoidant ARFID is sensory based. Due to sensory sensitivities, the person has an aversion to the texture, taste, color, and/or smell of certain foods. Many people with sensory processing disorder, autism, or ADHD experience this type of ARFID.

Averse ARFID is fear based. The person has a fear of choking, vomiting, or experiencing GI discomfort. This fear leads to the avoidance of certain food groups, such as dairy. A person can develop this type of ARFID because of past trauma surrounding food, such as force feeding or a choking episode; or due to having a GI disorder, such as GERD, IBS, or ulcers.

Restrictive ARFID is interest based. The person has a disinterest or lack of motivation towards eating. This leads to an insufficient food intake, nutritional deficiencies, and weight loss. This type of ARFID may develop because of a loss of taste/smell, depression, medication side effects, or a general disinterest in food.

ARFID Plus is when a person experiences more than one type of ARFID.

In order to get diagnosed with ARFID, the restrictive eating must negatively impact your life and health.

Note: An autistic person could have avoidant behavior around certain foods, but as long as they're getting the nutrition they need, this would simply be classified as disordered eating, not ARFID.

Some symptoms include the following: weight loss, constipation, decreased body temperature, lethargy, fainting, dizziness, low blood pressure, muscle weakness, and hair loss. It can also lead to malnutrition, dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, anemia, osteoporosis, and cardiac arrest.

The main treatment for ARFID is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). If an underlying mental or physical illness is causing it, the person will receive treatment for the condition alongside the CBT.

Well, that's all I have for today. Until next time, take care and stay curious.

Sources:

A. Cleveland Clinic

B. ARFID Awareness UK

C. NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association)

[sideblogformentalhealtshit]

"Try eating things, even if you don't like them" is probably the most useless advice for ARFID. I can not eat foods I do not like because I will throw them up; that's not an assumption or a fear or a phobia, it's an observation from the multiple times I have literally done so.

[bisexual-slime]

piercers love me for my common sense swag

[themogaidragon]

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Pride Flag

PT: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Pride Flag /end PT

ID: a flag with seven horizontal stripes of the same size. Their colors are, from top to bottom, green, light green, greenish grey, dark red, greenish grey, light green and green. END ID

I’ve redesigned the AFRID pride flag a second time. You can find my first edit of it here (link). The AFRID flag has been designed by @nightmare-cubed (link). Also the base for the template used for eating disorders flags is inspired from someone who apparently supports the transabled movement (link), this is also why I'm currenlty redesigning the eating disorders flags. Please check the blog @transcendent-mogai-pride-flags (link) for more information.

[eatyourdamnpears]

might’ve accidentally girlbossed my way into an autism assessment

[little-cereal-draws]

So Everything is Fine (right?) is finished and I’m writing a sequel! Bc I have no self control.

Its going to be called Everything is Ok (now) and it’s going to be a collection of very short stories of them living together and other ideas I thought of while writing.

The first chapter is already written, it’s 690 words, and will be posted tmr