These are basics. All of you should know

Posted By: QA specialist on 2006-03-19
In Reply to: QA question ! - susieQ

this. I have seen this type of work from people who have maybe only worked for one facility and been at the same facility for over 20 years and these people call themselves veteran MTs. That's how some veteran MTs do not pass tests. No one told them...BUT now that someone is telling you...listen. Get the necessary reference books and listen. It's your chance to grow and you might think these emails to be petty, but these emails are what QA is paid to do. They are paid to help an MT learn the rules and be uniform in what is transcribed. Are you just working for the service you do work for and not the hospital? If so, I would only be concerned about your work and the accuracy of your own work and the way you were doing it is not accurate.

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QA question ! - susieQ
- Provide the service you are being paid to do... - Chief Editor
- These are not petty! These are major sm - 30 year MTr
  - 2-5 years in acute care wouldn't solve this (sm) - Another QA member
    - you are correct. I should have said sm - 30 year MTr
- I do QA also and agree with that QA - she is helping you really. nm - hvlmt
- These are basics. All of you should know - QA specialist
- I totally can't believe that after 15 years - QA99
- Listen to your QA - you might be up for a review?
- Sounds like she is giving you - excellent feedback and you
  - not true. Crux is, she is being treated differently than others - in her ofice.
    - It will make her a better MT if she learns to do it right - so what
- To SusieQ - Albert
  - .... - to Albert
    - that is the most ridiculous bunk i've ever heard! - whole thread belongs on comedy board!
    - What someone else is silly enough to pay you, has no bearing on your ability or character. - nm
      - .. but im sure you know that already - you are RUDE
        Naaaaaaasty lady. Bad lady. Pooh. - gonna go drown my sorrows in a Pina colada.
        and if she chooses to swim with..sm - ignore the florida troll-I live there too
        my original post was perfectly - I was nice, and courteous!
- I have to wonder if this is made up BUT if you are - genuine, then I would
- Tell her THANK YOU! - TopMT
- Wow, that's really awkward that you are being treated - differently than other workers. sm
- I have only been doing this for a year.. - TM
- I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
- Your QA person is correct. More thoughts inside. - QA Mgr
- bottom line it's what client wants...sm - every client profile is different but
- Been doing acute care for 7 years now, - MT
- I do all of them too! How long have you worked there? - Is it just too hard to retrain yourself or what?
- I would do as they ask..sm - AzMT
- Some rules I follow..for #6, I think the first time an abbreviation is used, you expand and paren th - I agree with QA
  - that would be same rules not some. - yikes..me again
- 15 years of experience and you don't know - these rules?? Very sad. Nm
  - everyone else has responded, - sad? Oh please ...
    - Not trying to be rude. It is just sad that this - sm
- They are all correct style and grammar rules. More concerning are the gross HIPPA violations sm - MTSO
  - portability and accountability act....nm - It's HIPAA - health information
- These are all normal things for me as well. - they are correct
- Looks like your QA is going by the AAMT Book of Style - nm
- I believe all of the examples you have here are - correct. It's the way I do it.
- #2 should be 82-year-old female, - Wannie
  - Thanks to (almost) all - susieQ
    - RE: Thanks to (almost) all - Shelly Hendrix
- With the exception fo #6, which we have been told - me
  - grade typing back in the 60s...lol...sm - taught 2 spaces after a period in BASIC 10th

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