are not born knowing doc speak.
I learned MTing bec a hospital hired me as a trainee and gave me 6 months to learn. I am not a genius. I don't have a course in MT. I have a high school education, a summer of typing, and 2 years of Latin (which I think helped somewhat). The rest I learned by the seat of my pants and because I was given work to do. You can't learn MT any other way than to DO IT! You can take classes until you are blue in the face but this is a FLUID profession -- the words change, the favorite diseases change with the wind, the drugs are constantly changing. You can only learn through doing it.
Hospital belly ache bec they just have never wanted to acknowledge that what we do is necessary -- if they don't want to write it themselves. I was in the field just as they were going from docs writing their notes to us typing them.
Hospitals are getting ripped royally and yet they are so stupid they don't stop to look -- all they know is they want the reports to mysteriously appear.
Well, they get short of nurses and they can find the grants to open scholarships for nurses and programs to trains nurses -- they should realize that it's better, cheaper, and it turns out better pt care because there is tighter control -- if they will have it done in house -- WHICH BASICALLY MEANS YOU CAN STILL DO IT AT HOME because of technology today -- they can see every key we hit, everytime we have our foot on the pedal, they can see us clock in and clock out -- it's not a big problem to have a staff of MTs just like they have everything else in a hospital.
I just wish they would get burned enough to learn that. And also to learn to give basic speaking skills to their ON STAFF PHYSICIANS to see if they can speak the language (even if they are from Alabama!) well enough to be understood by all people, not just us -- and that they are given a course in what the hospital EXPECTS as quality of the dictation as it reflects on pt care.....and that along with checking the charts for timeliness -- they also LISTEN to the dictation to verify that what is typed is what was said......and if what was said was INTELLIGIBLE.
That's my 2/cents worth. |
There wouldn't be a shortage if hosp would hire in the US and let us train like before. People - ceci
