At Registry Partners, we believe employee feedback is critically important! Feedback received by our employees is taken very seriously and evaluated routinely throughout the year to ensure a positive working environment for all. Earlier this year we shared a blog article about Employee Satisfaction including our overall Employee Satisfaction rating of 96% in 2016. When we surveyed our employees in 2017 the overall Employee Satisfaction…
Summary of Breast and Colon Site Specific Data Item (SSDI) Changes for Cancer Registrars
The Breast and Colon changes outlined below take effect with cases diagnosed 1/1/2018 and forward. These changes were published in April, 2018 by SEER at https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/staging* *The order of the data collected has changed, and some previously collected data fields are no longer collected for 01/01/2018 and forward diagnoses. There are a number of new data fields being collected for breast primaries. * There has been…
Changes to the Solid Tumor Manual for Cancer Registrars
The 2018 Solid Tumor Manual (previously referred to as the Multiple Primary & Histology Rules) is now available in draft format at https://seer.cancer.gov/tools/solidtumor. When the manual has been approved in final format, it will be marked as final on the Seer website. A few things to highlight regarding changes in the Solid Tumor Manual (Multiple Primary & Histology Rules): Do not use a physician’s statement when…
Replacing Judgement and Bullying with Kindness, Empathy and Compassion
Have you ever been judged or bullied by someone or have you ever been the initiator of these acts against someone else? Many times people pass judgement or bully someone but don’t realize what they are doing or saying is truly considered bullying … they may classify it as “joking around” instead. Unfortunately there is a fine line between joking and bullying and the effects are…