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How many lines do ya'll average per 8 hour day? - just curious

Posted: Feb 04, 2015

and is that straight/VR or both? Thanks!

2500 lines per day - sm

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I work a 7-hour day.

95% VR

same here - newbutold

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Same here, maybe a little bit more but only because I work 8 hour days. I do take a break every hour of at least 5 minutes, the only way I can get through the whole day. Mostly VR also

Lines - Taelus

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1400-1500 straight typed, working on getting to 200 lph.

Dang! I want your account and/or platform. - sm

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It is a good day if I hit 1600/8 hrs with mostly VR. Not a newbie and do not take a lot of breaks. Horrible dictators (most *not* ESL) slow me down.

Eh, I don't think that's the deciding factor here - sm

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I'm on the E5 platform, which is the only platform I have worked on, so I really don't know how it compared with others; but I doubt that it is very attributable to my high line count.

I work on SIX accounts, 3 of them acute, with TONS of ESL and all very different account specs. Yep, I also have some horrible dictators (mumblers, gum chewers, second-guessers, auctioneer speeds). The fact is, I am good at my job and work very hard each day to make that line count. I have a goal of 2500 each day and stop at nothing to get there. If I run out of work, which lately seems to be par for the course, I flex my time to get those hours in. And when I do have work, I don't let distractions get the best of me. I close the door to my office, tell my husband and kids to let me be, and work my a$$ off. That's how you get a high line count.

2300-2500 - Jackie

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Escription, 7-1/2 hrs.

Not Nuance but Escription...SM - Old Anon

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so far this week (4 days) average is 2400.

Lines per day? - Lee

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That depends on the dictator. If you get a batch of reports by a dictator from Hades, you might not even get 800 lines. It also depends on the platform.

Depends - Marge

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I do anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 depending on who it is. But.... I charge by the gross line, not a character line.

lines per day depends on the day - rock bottom

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I work on 5 accounts. I get student dictators who don't have a clue.

I get dictators who say things that cannot possibly be true.

About 50% of my reports are sent for errors, discrepancies, no patient name, not dictating dates, etc., etc.

Yep, I don't get credit for all the explanations in the reasons box as to why I am sending this to EQA because what the dictator clearly said makes no sense.

I don't get any normals and don't know why but that has been the case since 2013.

I have one account where the dictators dictate and erase, dictate and erase, dictate and erase, dictate and erase. Impossible on that account to even make minimum required lines.

I'm about 80% VR, but that doesn't matter because of the above.

Since people have 'flexed' due to NSA or OOW or whatever you call it, I've noticed gaps in the time stamps wherein it looks like nobody dictated for 3 hours on 5 different accounts, huh?

So, my line count per 8 hour shift went from 2200 to 2400 down to 1400 to 1600.

I'm really looking forward to the new escription software, when I log on, there will be no work for hours.

Never worked days, ever. I'm the cleanup person at the end of the day when only the dregs are left.

Where have all the normals gone?

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