Most in-house hospital jobs allow only 30 minutes for lunch! So I wouldn't call an hour lunch
Posted By: MissouriMT on 2006-07-29
In Reply to: In-house MT job - sm - CG
"rigid." If you are an employee, there are rules, set schedules, etc. that you have to expect.
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I worked in a hospital and I could make differrent arrgmts for lunch if I needed to.
Don't let the OP scare you off from investigating.
Do what is right for you.
MTs out to lunch
Congratulations! I am sure you worked very hard and deserved it.
No--she is lunch!!!!
lunch
FOr me i just took a lunch without never punching in or out.
breaks and lunch
I think the way it goes is that you must be allowed to take breaks and lunch. I was an employee for a company that did not care when you worked, as long as you met turnaround time.
Could you have lunch delivered for
the staff one day? I'm not suggesting anything too pricey, but something they all enjoy. A donation in their name to an animal rescue in your area might be appreciated as well. Congratulations on your puppies!
So, instead of dinner, whats for LUNCH?
YUM 
I don't know, but my appetite for lunch just left me.
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You 2 should find each other and do lunch sometime! I'm too far away to join ya...nm
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If you are FT employee, must take two 15 min breaks and 30 min lunch
But, I am sure, many MTs do not do this and say they do.
Whats for lunch/dinner??
I am just curious what everyone is having for lunch or dinner. Need some ideas on what to cook.
Have a good Sunday afternoon.
take my lunch break and take a dip in the pool
I had one who decided lunch time ....sm
would be a good time to dictate. Opening wrappers, eating, drinking, etc. I was so repulsed by the eating sounds, I was ready to give them up. I called my contact person about 3 x and asked her to ask him to stop. Finally, I called the manager. When she approached him about it, HE DENIED IT!!! Said he didn't eat while dictating. Of course, she believed him and was dumbfounded at what I could be hearing! I told her I knew what I was hearing and it had to stop. Anyone who has ever heard that sound while transcribing KNOWS they are eating. What a jerk. Interestingly, the eating stopped, and I still have the account.
Lunch- -most important meal of the day!
I work 35 hours a week. I have a scheduled 8-hour shift and take a 1-hour lunch break, leaving me with 7 hours of production a day. My advice is to do the 35-hour schedule. You'll probably be more productive (lph) at 35 hours than 40, and you'll always be able to add extra hours later if you want to. Don't skip lunch or eat at your desk. You'll feel so much better if you take a real lunch break everyday.
I make lunch ahead of time and
my child has never complained about the bread being hard. Maybe because we use 100% whole wheat and it is already kind of dry? I have just never heard that complaint from anyone
I make lunch right after clearing up dinner and that way if we all oversleep by accident, at least its one less thing to have to worry about. We have enough stress in the morning.
Rule of thumb - THERE'S NO FREE LUNCH
If you don't want to do much, don't expect to make much. That's just the way it is.
Eating their lunch/dinner while dictating
I have a doctor from Croatia who is hard enough to understand with his "ah" and 'um" but when he's crunching carrots in the middle of it? Forget it. 
Someone paddles my kids, they will find my fist for lunch!!!
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I'm having a homemade roast beef sub and chips for lunch.
DH can probably BBQ hot dogs and burgers for dinner because I don't feel like cooking.
My employer took all MTs out to lunch today in recognition of National MT Week and we got a new
Drake & Drake Pharmaceutical Word Book! First time I have worked anywhere that actually recognized MTs for this week.
moms? lunch cunundrum - am I a less-loving mother if I make his PB&J tonight and refrigerator it?
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Forget dinner! Just prepared a huge lunch. Skillet chicken: Skinless boneness breasts cooked in skil
golden brown, add can of cream of mushroom soup, 1 cup of frozen mixed veggies, 1/2 c water - cover and cook about 15 minutes.
Then I made homemade mashed potatoes - extra thick - with plenty of pepper :0
Then, boiled my water for my sweet tea....with lemon.
After the chicken is done, pour a cup and a half or so of mozerella cheese on top and let it sit for about a minute or so.
The mixture from the potatoes is a creamy blend with mixed veggies poured over either rice or potatoes. I just make stuff up all the time like this. You could even add crackers to the mixture to give it a crunchy feel. My 2 boys were in heaven today. Of course, I may have to work the night shift when my lunch is finished - when I eat like this during the afternoon I usually skip dinner altogether because of the carb content.
Remember with this dish: You can do it low fat by substituting above ingredients. Also remember to have plenty of color to your diet! Voila!
minutes per hour sm
I am old school. I still cannot figure out how they can assume you can type so many minutes per hour when some dictators are horrible and some easy. I think quality has to be of utmost importance. How about the double speed tapes, some get twice as much on a small cassette as others and try explaining this to the docs, and boy do they know how to take advantage of you on this subject. Some won't understand, but the old timers will, you can dictate in either speed and they'll try to tell you it's only a "half tape" when they know they're getting twice as much on there. Shouldn't be "timed", it's quality that counts if you want to be worthwhile in this business IMHO.
What about minutes per hour/day?
Often times for me that is more consistent. Generally average ~140 minutes per day, but that can equal anywhere from 1200-1500 lines--a pretty big discrepancy, I think.
Minutes/hour
I know everybody measures their line counts by the hour, but I just had someone ask me how many minutes of dictation I could do in an hour. Really not sure. What would most of you say? I can usually crank out about 180 lines per hour when I actually sit down and type.
We were required to get up once an hour for five minutes
to stretch, walk around, do hand exercises, etc. Our hospital was very much into preventing repetitive motion strain injuries. I still do it at home. I type for 45 minutes or so, then I get up, fill my beverage, throw a load of laundry in, run out to the mailbox, ride my exercise bike, whatever.
The least I do an hour is 10 minutes of dictation - sm
so in 7.5 hours you should be able to do 75 minutes with relative ease. But if you are new and somewhat slow, I'd start with 45 and work my way up to 60.
Also agree, but average 15-20 minutes an hour...nm
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The MT average is 20 minutes of dictation/hour
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A bad day, I do 100 minutes of dictation and more like 130 to 140 on a decent day, an 8-hour day sm
but I have been doing this for a very long time and have a perfect expander.
Legs.....I move around for 5 minutes every hour, no matter what. nm
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If they don't call you within 15 minutes, you should call them. There
is no excuse for leaving you sitting by a phone all day. At the very least, an e-mail explaining why the delay. If this is the way they train, how do they pay. Do you really want to work for a company who thinks so little of your time?
In the "old days" of dictation on vinyl belts, the quota was do to 15 minutes an hour. sm
To me, it seems realistic, but then again, each situation is different. On account I know, I can usually do 30 minutes an hour, although being money-oriented and paid by the line, I usually gauge things by lines. I do 250-300 lph, but those little dinky reports ARE an irritation -- no argument there -- hardly enter the header info and *poof* the dictation is over. Would be hard to make a decent line count that way.
But ... surely your employers understand there are variations on such things. Maybe you average 8.9 one month and 12 the next ... I would think it would even out.
Anyway, i'm into that gray zone where I know nothing about, but I wish you good luck. To me, in the days when I was supervisor, if I knew someone was doing the best they could do, that was all that mattered to me.
In-house MT around $22 per hour. nm
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I wouldn't work as an MT for a lousy $7.50 an hour OR
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i wouldn't call it a new pay plan.
but this has been in place awhile now (at least in my office). The rate you get paid PTO is based upon your 6-month average, which is way better than a straight $10/hr that it used to be. As far as i know, the QA score does not figure into the average hourly rate. But the QA is a little more structured and consistent and following BOS more from what I see. Since SE's don't get PTO, i don't guess that affects them...
Wouldn't call it envy. I don't even do
transcription anymore and haven't for almost 2 years. I check in on this board and it just confirms that I made the right move. At least I have bennies and my backside is half the size it used to be from sitting on it all day trying to make ends meet.
Where are the in-house jobs? And how many are available?
The number of in-house jobs is dwindling by the day.
Is there any MT out there who still gets paid hourly?
Newbies are in a difficult situation. There are less and less in-house positions,
Consequently, they start at home working production and having to worry about their paycheck.
And on top of that you judge the justification of their questions asked on the world help board.
And I noticed that your comments are contradictory.
BTW, did you buy a keyboard without a 'comma key?'
In-house In-hospital
Ive been in medical records when someone tried to force us to release records to them (not the patient.) I am saying people are sneaky when they want information.
in-house hospital pay?
After working at home for approximately 7 years, I decided to apply for an in-house (but work at home) hospital job. No more companies. To my surprise, the starting wage was 10.31. They offered me 12.00 an hour with a very small incentive, maybe 100 dollars every 2 weeks or slightly more. Okay, does that seem extremely low to anyone else? I make 10-11 cents doing IC work (yes, there are plenty of downfalls to IC work that can be made up by getting employee benefits) The insurance is decent and cheap at this hospital for a family and the benefits are excellent, but still, 12 dollars an hour? Is this the going rate? Are they trying to give me the next-to-lowest wage after the 10.31? Help!
Hospital pay was 7.5 cpl when I was in-house sm
and with shift differential, you could make a maximum of 8.375 cpl. When I went to MQ, I was started at 8.75 cpl and now at new company can make up to 10 cpl with shift differential and other incentives. It totally depends on the MTSO/hospital as far as pay. In-house work only would not necessarily make pay better across the board.
You would need to go back in-house to be paid by the hour.
I wouldn't take the money personally. In a hospital...
they are certainly operating under strict budget guidelines and even though they may "want" to give you more money, it's possible that they probably just can't.
But those will be for in-house or staffing jobs, not
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Unfortunately not enough in-house jobs anymore.
If all MTs had to start in-house and then transition to at-home, there would never be enought MTs as there are fewer and fewer in-house positions. I would have loved to have started in-house, but for me, that was not an option as all the hospitals in my area outsource their work.
i work in-house for a hospital and they
did. the bonus was the first to go, then outsource our work so that the 'chosen few' would be the only one to qualify for what little bonus was left. doubled the lines to qualify for bonus but also cut the pay per line of the bonus. they cant keep emps now except the ones that are too close to retirement.
I don't think there are $20-30/hr JOBS, but rather $20-30/hour MTs. nm
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ALL of those jobs pay more than $12 - $18 an hour.
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Are these jobs by the hour, if so
could you tell me how the pay is? There is a prison hiring in the next town and want to know if it is worth applying going through the application process.
$10 an hour?? at a hospital ...
doing transcription ????
Well I wouldn't call a person "stupid" because they aren't from here, but SM
maybe you mean because of the poor use of the language. I know what you mean.
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