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Long reports or short reports? - which do you prefer?
Posted: Jul 15, 2013
Am i the only one that just hates the long ones? And by long I mean anything over like 4 minutes. I love progress and ER notes!
Depends - Mt
[ In Reply To ..]Depends on the dictator! Great ones with great sound quality make long ones seem short..bad ones or bad sound can make me cry...lol
I agree... - Obi Wan
[ In Reply To ..]For me, I would consider 4 minutes a short report, and 20 minutes a long report. I do acute care. What I dislike the most is an extremely long report (20 minutes plus), and I only get 50 lines. I hate those dictators that wastes my time! My all time favorite report would be a very short report with a very long templet.
Prefer long reports - JustMe
[ In Reply To ..]I prefer really, really, really long reports! The less ADTs and cc's I have to do for free the better!
Just give me the work, I say. - Greatful NM
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I prefer dictators who know what they want to say --sm - anon
[ In Reply To ..]and say it at a reasonable speed without too many pauses or corrections. I find this more so in short reports. I have loved ER reports in the past, but more and more of that is going to being done by the doctor, not even speech rec which is why I switched to acute care work about 7 years ago. I think my problem with the long reports with the doctors pausing all the time is it is rough on my attention span and it interrupts the groove.
Love ER - NuAnon
[ In Reply To ..]Mainly because I know my accounts and docs, not necessarily easy, but at least I can translate their mush into a report.. lol I rarely run out of work on a weekend or holiday, my ER accounts are always busy.
If straight typing, long - If VR, short-nm
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