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How do you type your initials on a report? - fed up
Posted: May 30, 2012
I have always typed my initials with the doctor then me as ABC/def. That is the way I was taught when I got my MA degree and have always seen it as that until I started working for this office. They type it ABC:def or ABC;def. Nothing is consistent and seems like everyone does whatever they feel like. Also, when typing a note for a PA and CRNP I always put their initials and then the initials of the doctor and then mine such as ABC/DEF/ghi and I have not seen one report that has it the correct way, they always leave the doctor's initials off. This is just getting on my last nerve and was wondering if other people are using other things than the / to seperate initials and if other people are leaving the doctor's initials off. Sorry, had to vent and curious if other people do it this way, as I have never seen this in all my 26+ years in the medical field.
Where I work we use ABC:def - nm
[ In Reply To ..]xx
Isn't it up to the client? - justme
[ In Reply To ..]I've been told to do it ABC/def and ABC:def. I think it just depends on how the client wants it, rather than it being a right or wrong way. Doesn't matter to me...I just type it the way they want it. :)
Initials - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I don't think it's a big deal. I've worked for two companies in my 20+ year career. Can't remember the previous, but my current company prefers the MD/me format.
No rule for this - sm
[ In Reply To ..]There is no fixed way to do this. It is not a grammar or punctuation issue. You might not have seen this done differently, but I have, right up to and incuding NO initials at all for anyone.
Regardless of what they are doing, or what you were taught, this is not worth getting upset about. They are not wrong and you are not right.
Thirty years ago it might have been important, but it is no longer. What do we do when the author types it? Nothing. In the days of the "secretarial pool," maybe it helped, but I think it i less meaningful now.
The person who signs it is ultimately responsible for the content, not the typist.
BOS 3rd Edition rule is... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Use either all capitals or all lowercase for both sets of initials, with a colon or virgule between them.
RH:ST or rh:st
RH/ST or rh/st
Does not affect patient care at all. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]This is another example of the misdirected focus that has led to the decline in this industry. Focusing attention on things like this that have absolutely no bearing on patient care turns MT into clerical or secretarial work.
MT could have evolved into scribing with a more patient-care focus. It could have stepped into the interface between the EHR and the physician to provide a higher-grade service.
MT could have evolved into documentation improvement work and the development of templates and point-and-click electronic interfaces, both of which would be a perfect extension of MT skills.
Instead of that, MTs (AHDI) spent the years obsessing about typos and initials while VR and offshoring obliterated their jobs and other people stepped into the scribe, documentation improvement, and interface development roles.
Whoever pays the bills makes the rules - There is no law about how it is done
[ In Reply To ..]Why are you making so much of this? The outcome will only be to make yourself look petty and foolish. So you learned one way when you got your MA "degree." Wow. Big deal. Just ask your employers how they want it done and do it that way. Then get on with your life.
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