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Criminy! I wish they'd pick one and stick with it! - getting messed up
Posted: Jan 19, 2011
Since I can't get the same answer out of my QA, my CCM and others, I guess I'll poll the audience.
We DO NOT put the zeros on medications, like 4.0 mg should be typed 4 mg, right?
Do we put the zeros on...welll...pretty much anything else, like creatinine 2.0, temperature 98.0? And no, I'm not new. I've been told many different things over the past 10 years that now I'm just messed up, confused and too tired to think straight.
Some answers, I think - What I have been told
[ In Reply To ..]No point zeros on meds, 4.0 can be confused as 40, etc.
On lab data you do put zeros on the end because it basically is a place holder on how sensitive the study is, same with temp.
I got in trouble for not putting them if the doc said it like that - nm
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Zeros - Old MT
[ In Reply To ..]It is pretty must strictly forbidden to put the trailing zero on a med. Unless there is some extreme verbatim account and the dictator dictates it, no trailing zero on meds (not 5.0 mg). (Conversely, you want a leading zero (0.5 mg).
But yes, elsewhere, because as stated, some tests are very exact to the exact fraction, and the zero is needed for precise clarity.
Thought BOS2 said no trailing zeros - and JHACO also
[ In Reply To ..]Both of their Dangerous Abbreviation lists say no trailing zeros.
This is too confusing.
What a crock! You'd think they had more important - things to worry about than trailing zeroes.
[ In Reply To ..]QA bounces back and forth so much on that sort of thing that I just type what the doc says, and don't care whether QA likes it or not. They change so much anyway, that if they don't like it today, maybe they'll like it tomorrow. If a doc says "9.0", I type "9.0". If he just says "9", he gets "9".
What is more important. This is basis of MT business, either - for MT or MTSO, attention to detail. nm
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Trailing zeroes, or lack thereof, have no bearing - whatsoever on quality of work.
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It has to do with attention to detail, and doing it how you - are instructed to do it. nm
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Just because some pencil-pusher tells you to do - something, doesnt mean its important. nm
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Who is talking important? Talking you do it how the person who - signs your check wants you to SM
[ In Reply To ..]to do it. Doesnt matter if important or not. It amazes me the people that respont to posts who seem to have no idea what is actually being discussed. Comprehend much?
You are not paid to do it however you want just because it - doesnt affect meaning. You are paid to SM
[ In Reply To ..]do it however the person signing your check wants it done.
I'm surprised most of those check-signing knuckle- - draggers can even read & write. nm
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Well, they can so do the job how you are paid to - do the job.
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Only in medication dosages. They are ok in - lab results.(read BOS)NM
[ In Reply To ..]NM
BOS is for the most part just meaningless drivel. - MT Wordz
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Thank you - getting messed up
[ In Reply To ..]Thank you for responding. I feel much better now. I'm not going to put a 0 on the end of meds, I'm going to put a 0 on labs and temps if dictated and I'm sticking with it! I hated not putting 0 on labs because I always thought it looked like I missed it.
Same problem with slashes (/) and dashes (-). - Wish theyd make up their minds! nm
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