I've been doing lots of dental notes. Not boring at all

• PT job for an orthodontist is available. Am wondering... - Dental transcription??
  • Dental Trancription - Rainagade_ MT
  • I've been doing lots of dental notes. Not boring at all - Jus me
  • Orthodontist - Patti
  • It's no more boring than anything else. - better than podiatry! LOL

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number of doctors usually and for the most part there isn't a lot of medical terminology and they have lots of normals, which is good because they you can have lots of macros/expanders to help, but I like learning from my dictation.  With clinic notes I did know when viruses/illnesses were going around and what the standard treatment was, so I could try some of the same treatments if we got sick without a doctor visit, just after a while they were just boring.  I much prefer acute care. I have lots of dictators so I don't get sick of hearing one doctor all day, although occasionally I do get a slew of the same dictator, the terminology is constantly changing, new drugs, new equipment, new procedures, etc.

as a foster parent.  Here's some suggestions for you:

1. Don't negotiate a kid's negative behavior like that counselor recommended all of the time - make negotiating  a rarity instead of the actual standard rule.  YOU are the parent and in charge, not the child.  If you negotiate then they'll always think that life is a big negotiation pool. 


2. Be consistent.  Set up the house rules and consequences/rewards and even write them out for the child.  For example, set up a sticker chart and every day the child brushes his teeth without being told twice to do so he gets a sticker, and when he gets "x" stickers accumulated he gets a small prize.  In my house we have what is called a  grab bag, which contains items that I got at the dollar store.  The grab bag is  a dark laundry bag and the child cannot see in there - they have to reach in there and grab a prize out.  On the other hand - anytime the child misbehaves, i.e. does something to make the younger sibling cry on purpose, they lose a sticker.   Kids his age usually do well with having to obtain around 10 stickers to get rewarded. 


3. Talk with the teacher about what is going on and ask them to try techniques to help build his self-esteem.  Oftentimes they'll do things like this by asking your child if they'd like to be the team captain for a game.  A lot of schools have school counselors available for free, so if this is available ask the school counselor to also spend time with him.


4. Socialize your child as much as possible with other kids.  Sports are great for this and allows them to burn off energy.  Playgrounds are superb as well. 


5. I also love the John Rosemond stuff - he's great on getting kids negative behaviors turned around.


6. Most importantly make sure your child knows you love him.  Spend a few minutes each day snuggling/loving on him or at least trying to.  There will be days he'll be refractory to this but other days he'll appreciate it. 


7. Never speak negative about his biological father to him or when he can hear you.  Kids don't understand when they have a parent that is bad and things like this often cause them to misbehave more.  I've had kids come to me whose parents were horrible parents/people yet the child still loves them. 


8. Don't forget to take time out for yourself.  Enjoy that bubble bath!

Feel free to e-mail me if you have any further questions.  Good luck!

I type the clinic notes at home, print them, verify the all notes printed, place them in a manila envelope clearly marked with the clinic name and dictator doctor's name and date of clinic.  I then deliver the notes to the lead Transcriptionist at the hospital which manages the clinics.  She in turn distributes them to the clinics. 

The last two weeks, I have gotten several calls from the lead MT that I give the work too that clinics are calling saying they are missing certain notes from certain days which is impossible because I type all notes for a specific day in one large document and print them out together.  There is no way that some are printing and some are not.  Plus I ALWAYS verify that each note printed.  Today, she called and said there were missing notes from two different days.

Then there is the issue of my work being typed by someone in the hospital.  When I deliver work I get a print out of what's on the system as far as clinic notes.  It is a worktype specific list that only I am supposed type.  There are a couple of doctors who dictate all their notes in one looooong job.  There were two very long jobs on my list, but were never pooled to me.  When I enter the specific job number, it says they have been transcribed.  In one instance, the dictator dictated half on one job and half on another.  I typed one job and the other just magically got transcribed.  When I've called to ask who's typing these reports, no one seems to know.

These ladies in this particular transcription department are not a friendly bunch.  I have felt that they sort of resent the fact that I am doing work from home while they have to come in and type.  I think they are wondering why they aren't allowed to work from home.  The work I do is very easy clinic work and would be pretty easy lines for one of them to do just to pad their line counts.

I have a meeting tomorrow with the HIM director who contracted with me about TAT and I know they want a shorter TAT than the agreed upon 24 to 48 hours and I know she is going to want me to make more deliveries than the three I do a week now.  I have asked that they set up a remote printer for me so I can print from home that way delivery isn't an issue anymore, but they act like this can't be done which I know it can be done.

I'm about to cut this account loose, but it's such easy work.  It's just that I'm running into brick walls at this place.

Thanks for listening to me whine! 

Some of them VERY severe, including head injuries when the person bounced off the trampoline and landed on his/her head.

ANYTHING can be dangerous if you aren't careful.  Way back in the disco era, I typed a report on a guy who had fractures of ALL FIVE metatarsals - from dancing!! 

I transcribe all ops, and I have an oral/maxillofacial surgeon, but no samples on him.  Is there anyone doing this type of transcription who might be able to send me a few good samples of dental surgeries? 

Thanks. 

I need a some good dental/oral surgery reference books.  These books would have to include also the names of dental instruments and how they are most often packaged together and what the names of the packs are.

Can somebody help me with some links to some good books that would not only include traditional reference material but also the additional information I am needing?

Thanks, Anne

Thanks

Anne

because it is a dead end job with no future.  Try studying something that will provide a better living.