You are not expecting too much, though
Posted By: Oh I have so BTDT on 2005-12-15
In Reply to: I need some perspective here. - OT - chicken without her head
For one thing you need a break, With the holidays coming up at least you won't have running the kids to school which should give you a few minutes where you can have some "me" time. Can you adjust your schedule so that you have a split schedule and get up early and work a couple of hours before you take the kids to school and then work in the afternoon, or work in the evening after the kids have gone to bed? If you can split it up like that, that would give you some time in the evening to clean house, spend time with family, and still have some down time for you.
If the family helps with chores, just make a list of what needs to be done and divide it up so that everyone gets accomplished. If you aren't so harried about getting things done you can concentrate on work, knock it out, and then have some restful time for family.
I think the holidays are stressful even on a good day. We have our tree, doesn't have the first decoration on it, but we plan to do that today. Haven't wrapped the first present either, but at least all but 1 is bought.
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No, they're not expecting too much.
The problem here isn't that 1500 lines is too much, but that you think it's unreasonable. If you are angry about this or feel that it's unfair, you'll have a harder time meeting your new obligation.
The 1500 lines a day is a reasonable expectation. It's about 50-75% of what you could minimally produce.
Their expectation of 1000 lines per day for their acute care, i.e., "medical," dictation is about 50-75% of what an acute care Transcriptionist should be able to produce.
Psychiatric dictation is easier to understand and doesn't involve complicated surgical procedures, a lot of anatomy and physiology, or exotic diseases. It's just basically English.
At the moment, you might not feel that you can reach this, but you can.
You didn't tell us what your current productivity was, but if you're not already able to produce 1500 lines a day, you are either doing chores that do not generate transcribed lines or you are not working at your full potential.
All hospitals have their noses held to the bottom line now. They have to justify expenses.
If you and your coworkers don't want them to start considering outsourcing and/or voice recognition as viable alternatives, you will need to be the most economical alternative.
If I were you, I'd aim for 2000 lines a day. That will make reaching 1500 easier.
How long do you have to do this? A month? Assume you have HALF of whatever time they give you. Set up an improvement schedule which increases your line count daily until you can hit 1500 lines daily in half that time. Every day, aim to produce MORE so that you will always average out to 1500 a day, even if you have bad days.
During your period of improvement, every time you can't make your count, figure out what nonproductive activity prevented it and eliminate it.
At our facility, employees either improve on their own or get put on a performance improvement plan. Once on that, they have 90 days to meet the standards and keep their jobs.
If everyone produces very little right now, it could very well be due to playback being too slow. If it's set for everyone uniformly, you might need to have it set a bit faster every week until it's not dragging you down.
Was expecting more from last night's performances . . . wonder if they are pushing them with too
many activities, etc, and they're just tired. Ace was too cute, but didn't really think his song was that great. I think Lisa may be on her way out, even though she has a great voice, it was one of the weaker performances, and I think Ace's looks will keep him in for another couple of weeks.
Oops, missed the part about expecting it to be as big as the moon!
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