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What exactly is acute care experience? - Nickname

Posted: Nov 09, 2012

I feel dumb asking this, but I have done many types of transcription and I'm wondering if any of them apply as "acute care."

acute care = all hospital dictation, all specialties, all report types (except pathology/radiology) - nm

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nm

So does that mean having experience in all or some of all of those? - Nickname

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Would it be acute care experience if I have typed some emergency room notes and notes for a women's health facility? Would I have to have experience in all hospital, all specialties, all reports? I want to click "yes" to acute care experience, but I'm feeling like I shouldn't now.

Nevermind, I think the answer is no. - Nickname-NM

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Yeah, it looks like the answer is no.

You're right. (please see message) - sm

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Acute care means H&Ps, consults, discharge summaries, ER reports, operative reports, procedure reports, letters, and includes all specialties, including rehab, but doesn't include radiology and pathology.

The reports in acute care are much more involved than most clinic reports. The initial patient visit in a clinic will usually be the most detailed report you'll have, and even those reports don't often compare to the detail of acute care H&Ps.

Also, in acute care you'll usually have a minimum of several hundred dictators to thousands of dictators which could show up in your queue.

Large multispecialty clinics that have a surgery center within come close to acute care... so close, in fact, that AHDI will accept large multispecialty clinic experience in lieu of acute care experience to qualify for certification.

I should mention, though, that working for multiple specialties separately isn't the same thing as a working for a multispecialty clinic.

No, ER notes are clinic-type - See Msg

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ER notes are more clinic and a woman's health facility is also clinic, limited at best.

I would not put acute care on your application.

Acute care experience would mean you have done all the specialties that are dictated in a HOSPITAL, including surgeries, have experience with heavily accented dictators from far east, mid east, etc.

It's far different from clinic.

ER notes are clinic-type? - You sure?

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I've been doing acute care for many, many years and have always done ER notes as part of that and wouldn't classify it as "clinic-type" at all.

What I Meant Was - See Msg

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I didn't mean they're not in a hospital, I meant that they're not considered acute care. Standing alone, I don't think ER notes would be considered acute care experience, though they certainly can be more compicated than a family clinic note, for sure.

Acute care reports - Precious

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Acute care dictation is not only the operative notes, but history and physicals, discharge summaries on patients admitted to the hospital, consultation reports, and I do even cardiac caths, ER reports, amongst other. You have to have a lot of experience in order to type acute care.

Acute care, just need ability to research - me

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I started my career transcribing operative reports and HPs and landed a hospital job after 5 months, beating out hundreds applicants. Experience is not necessary but helps. Mostly you need the ability to research equipment, drugs, etc., and ESL. Honestly, I thought ER reports were more difficult than operative reports, as where the ER was located had some strange diseases (fungal and such due to location).

Good luck!

I took a course in acute care - anon

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I took a course through AHDI at Oak Horizons for specifically acute care. It involved everything pretty much that is necessary for acute care transcription. I know I can transcribe acute care. I have done ortho for 27 years and some other specialties before that for a total of 30 years. No one to date has given me a chance so I gave up and quit applying for those jobs. But I do believe it is possible if you are dedicated and can do the research. I feel I can do any specialty and you just need to keep a positive attitude and you will do it. Really dig into the research.

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