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In-document typed time

Posted By: Jean on 2009-02-26
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My company is now tracking our "typed time" versus the hours we put on our time sheets.  In other words.  The exact amount of time that we are actually typing rather than doing other things that might be related to the job.   If there is too much of a discrepancy between what we put on our time cards and the "typed time" we get warnings.  Is anyone else experiencing this? 


 


I apologize if this posts twice.  I've never posted before.




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Here is the best way...open any document you have typed for anything and count the lines both ways.

I have pretty much always been paid by the gross line...occasionally I will take a job with a company that pays by characters and I never make as money.  Remember...with gross lines, a line is a line is a line....that means anything on the lines be it one character or 65 is a line.  For instance....today I type a normal file for a client I have worked on for years...if I counted the lines at 65-cpl I got 398 lines, but counting gross lines I got 641 lines.  This is a 38% difference in pay between the two, so you would be making approximately 5 cents a line less on the character count.  Hope this helps :)


Docs have the right to document their time
as much as anyone else -- for insurance purposes and any other reason they want.
In-document typing time
I'm an employee (at present).
One time I typed "Tp and his wife are retired and travel in their rectovaginal." Caught it tho
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Can you save the document as a Word document? nm
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At ease, soldier! This isn't a medical document. I repeat, this isn't a medical document. nm
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What Document is that?
FootOnmyNeck?
Is your document (sm)
going "full screen" when you do this? If so, use Alt-V to pull the View menu and change the view back to normal. I'm guessing you are hitting Alt-V instead of Ctrl-V for pasting. If you are in full screen mode, there should be a little box floating that says "close full screen." Clicking that will change it back too.
Do you want a new document to...
to show the template or the new blank page within the current document to show the template?  In other words, is every report created in a document of its own or are all the reports created in one document containing several reports?  Either way, I would think a macro would be very useful. You could use a macro to insert the template on the blank page of new document or, if several reports are joined together to form a document, you could make a macro that would create section break at the end of the current report and insert the template on a new page.
Don't get mad, just document.
Save QA e-mails in an e-mail folder. Then when you get conflicting messages, simply forward the conflict to the QA and very respectfully say that this feedback seems to be conflicting, so there must be something you don't understand.
If for some reason they do this over the phone, I'd ask if you could get that in writing so you'll be able to keep the rules straight.
Don't get mad, just document
The corrections go into an on-line type folder. I have e-mailed the person in charge stating that feedback seems to be conflicting. The response? There wasn't any. One Editor correcting the work will say "good report" while the next will do just the opposite even though you set up/type basically the same way. Some days I get so upset I could literally cry. I love the work but how can one please when the editors are not on the same page? Really broken at heart over the whole thing. :-(
So I can see the document (sm)
otherwise, it runs off to the right of the page.
Did you try it elsewhere in the document?
When I entered the cm2 as a formatted auto correct, it did make everything suprascript; however, go to another line and type the cm2 there. It should work correctly. Just don't know why it won't on the original. Let us know if you're successful.
Maybe it has to do with how you have your document set up?

Just typed in an HP

Under the ROS the heading "Special Senses: Unremarkable"


I once typed for a doc who had
now that was funny!
Maybe that ad was typed by VR... or by an
It irks me no end that our country has shipped off a job to India/Pakistan, etc., that used to be considered important to the medical field, and which fed and housed many of our country's middle-class citizens. So now these foreigners are living the comfy middle-class life, and here I am, trying to rent an apartment and finding that my MT monthly gross pay doesn't qualify me for ANYthing that even distantly resembles a decent middle-class apartment. The only ones I can afford all have "Se habla espanol" in the ads, and of course you know who lives THERE! It's all the non-English-speaking illegals that we've pretty much given carte blanche to come ruin our country, after having done a real number on their own. I hope Uncle Sam enjoys paying for food stamps, welfare, and subsidized housing, 'cause that's where I'm headed unless this profession turns around.
Never typed an ESL??...sm
Now that is strange. As many ESLs as there are. And using the q.d. and h.s. they must have worked somewhere that they didn't use BOS.
--I think she has already typed them.
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did you try to hit F11 anyway? Usually you cannot see them after you save the document.. but they a
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How do you move from one document
to another in the WordPerfect program without stopping to reach for the mouse.  I'm guessing there is a certain key(s) such as F1 or something like that that does it but I haven't been able to find it.  Thanks!
document where the IRS states this please? nm
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document is a template
I am using a different computer in my house because my main one crashed. I had new templates sent to me, but when I open them to use them they have all of these arrows and paragraph symbols everywhere! Thanks for any help
I believe it is document preparation..nm
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Word document
Here is what I do . . . sort of the same thing. I sometimes work on temp jobs and if I think I know how the client wants something, but I am not 100% sure I highlight the area. The MTSO will then return my work -- if she makes a change she will highlight so I can find it easily and if what I did was okay she simply will remove the highlighted area and the report is good to go on to the doctor. It is very simple to highlight an area and just as easy to remove it. It won't exactly show what your MT did wrong, but the MT will know that you changed something that is hightlighted and see the correct way of typing. If she has her original she can match your highlighted area with her original to compare.
Make sure you are at the top of the document
It has been a while for me, but I still have the function key template card that goes overtop of the F keys.
Word document
I have sent really large Word files as an attachment even using dial-up.
Why don't you still just type 1 document - sm
then when done with all the sound files, then upload that 1 document? I do short little blips for a doctor, and she sends me 30 or so voice files and I type them up in one document for her unless it is a letter, then that is its own file. The then cut/paste the correct paragraph into the patients file at their end. (each blip has the patient's name and visit date). Did your doctor decide to change things from how you were doing it before?
How do you encrypt a document before using
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make sure that the document you want
is highlighted and then try the "view" button.
It goes back to 0 with each new document - is that what you mean?
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I have always typed mg/dl and I've been
transcribing early 20 years and have never heard anything about KCl.  I currently work for a service that has a very rigid account and we have had to change several things to avoid confusion, though they have never mentioned this one.   I would think it would be a personal preference.  We use BOS as a rule of thumb, but on Tuesdays and the holiday following the third Saturday of the monh between 8 and 10 we do it this way, and then doctor X wants it done this way, which is totally different from standards, not a coherent dictation but he wants it his way. 
Only typed verbatim twice
once for a Russian infectious disease MD. After one week of strict verbatim reports, evidently she got a talking to by the senior partner and her style became acceptable.

The hospital is one of the larget and most respected hospitals in the US. All residents much pass a week-long course dedicated strictly to how to chart, how to document, how to dictate. Each resident must personally sign his/her own name daily on a log in sheet and anyone who misses a day does not get to start with the rest of peers. One day is devoted SOLEY to HOW TO DICTATE and accepting full legal responsibility for the dictation. They have to sign an agreement that the hospital will not provide legal support if their documentation falls short of their standards and the resident has to provide his/her own funding against any lawsuit. If they dictate a reversal of pulse rate/respiratory rate, I could switch them, but I had to send it to QA who attached a note to the dictator covering the MTSO from any repercution.

Best dictators I EVER had!
I typed in my sleep once...sm
it was a late shift, about midnight (which is late for me) and I got up to go downstairs, move around, stay awake, came back and found I had typed something about a TV in a box...? So it can be done!
Proofing as you go...as in looking at what you typed?
Doesn't everyone? Or do some MTs watch TV or look up in the air while typing? LOL! That is not proofreading - proofreading is double-checking a finished document.
No, it was a report I typed. Now will you tell me off
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I typed ENT for 6 years and
charged 14-16 cpl but that was about 4 years ago when you could charge that. I printed everything and picked up, delivered. I eventually had to drop the rate down to 10-12 cpl to keep the docs and then they found someone who would do their work for 8 cpl.

I think you are in the ballpark as well. Good luck.
I have to agree -- not only have I typed ERs for sm

people with cold symptoms, flu, snotty nose, etc., and wondered "why in the heck are they in the ER?," I have also witnessed it firsthand while waiting in the ER with my mom.  She had congestive heart failure and towards the end we made frequent trips to the ER when she ended up unable to breathe and no doctor's office open.  They always ended up admitting her anyway.  But I watched the same thing that the poster below mentioned -- nonemergent cases clogging up the works because they treat the ER like a doctor's office. 


And yes, there are "special circumstances" and such, but that was not the situation you were addressing.  Sorry for the attacks you received.  You just put in writing the thing that many of us have been thinking for quite awhile.


I HEAR ya, but only because you typed it.
I am with you. They really are clueless, aren't they!
Oh, okay, like not something we have never TYPED in a report before then...


 


Gotcha!


dictated / typed
Doctor says "jiddo, jiddo, jiddo" - what does this mean"  Why.... 0-0-0 - OMG. The things we put up with for no money.
If they know they've been typed.

Why can't you skip over those patients since obviously they know other girl typed them. 


Do not transcribe for free!  Ever wonder why the other girl left? 


 


"Qualified MT" just typed ...
Arthrosclerotic heart disease. This is an MT claiming to have 5+ years experience and wants to be paid .10 per line.
Any test I have taken I have typed
verbatim exactly because you do not know what they actually want. Also, need to follow BOS guidelines on tests as most MTSOs use these.
Sorry, typed the above without glasses
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I recently typed an EGD....sm.
The patient had choked on a piece of meat and had it lodged in his throat. The whole report for some reason by hands did not want to type food...always foot. I felt pretty confident that I did a good job correcting all of them and sent the report on.

Two days later the doctor sends it back and asks me to change it. No big deal, must have made a different mistake....NO I was so mad at myself that I sent this report that stated "foot was removed from the esophagus". It was embarassing then but now it is pretty funny to me.
document solution center
Jen: Is that the one in Gadsden? with Tina Parker as president? You can email me for more info, but I worked for them for 2 1/2 years and I would not recommend it to anyone.  Thanks, Beth
Document Enterprise System I think
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If it worked earlier in the document SM
the paintbrush on the toolbar - highlight a paragraph (including the paragraph mark itself) that DOES work, click painter, then click in the paragraph you want to reformat and it should add that tab (as well as any other embedded formatting in the paragraph you copied from).
can anyone document anterobasal hypokinesis?

Point is, the document is copyrighted
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