You step on someone's foot to get them to repeat what they said if you didn't hear them the
Posted By: JoH on 2005-10-11
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Career Step Foot Pedal
Can anyone tell me what type of foot pedal Career Step uses. I have a friend who is accepting an at-home transcription position and she needs to purchase a foot pedal. She saw one on E-bay and it states that it is a Career Step foot pedal, however, that is all it says. She is needing to purchase an IN-USB-1 foot pedal. TIA
I need step-by-step instructions to make a macro in word that aligns automatic numbered list to the
HELP!!!!! Thanks in advance.
If you mean CNN, yes, I guess so, but I didn't hear that anywhere else
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I didn't hear the whole story, just the tease part, but there
are 18 elementary school students pregnant in one school. Let me repeat ELEMENTARY. I didn't even know what *ex was when I was in elementary school, much less having it.
One small step for MTs, one giant step for the US! -nm
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Follow his directions step-by-step.
Once the Macro is in place, you can add it to your toolbar by right clicking on the toolbar you want it to appear on. Choose customize (bottom of menu). Click on the Command tab and choose Macros from the left-hand side of the box. Find Normal.NewMacros.GetLineStrictCount from the right-hand side of the box. Left mouse click on that macro one time and hold the button down. Drag the command to the toolbar in the location where you want it to be. You should now see a large box with the entire name of the macro inside. Right click on that box for the drop-down menu to change the appearance of that button and you're in business.
Better to take a step up than a step backwards.
Congratulations!
Help! I need step-by-step instructions for MS
When the dictator says "same" for the postop diagnosis, do I have to highlight, copy, and paste from the preop diagnosis, or is there a simple one-step keystone that can be done to automatically copy (hope that makes sense).
Whatever u do, do not, I repeat
unless you like being taken for a total ride. Lost wages, line stealing, lied to, work 7 days a week so their pockets can get fatter and yours gets thinner. Just some friendly advice for job seekers. 
Might be a repeat but ..
did you try click on VIEW, TOOLBARS and make sure ADDRESS is checked. If it is then uncheck it and check it again and see if it reappears.
Also check on your standard toolbar where the front and back arrows, refresh, stop and home buttons are. I have accidentally drug mine onto that line before and it was a smaller version of it. If it is there you should be able to click and drag it down to it's own line.
I repeat.......
.. the company knowingly broke the law! Nine years ago none of us knew anything about this subject. She didn't complain because she didn't know any better, but she's still a victim.
REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT
It is NOT illegal to collect Social Security OR disability and still work.....I was just trying to find out how I could work and not make over the $900 a month I was allowed to earn. What is WRONG with you people?????
I am probably going to repeat SM
what a few other people have said. You must prepare yourself in order to be successful in getting an at-home job. You must have a headset, a pedal and books already. How are you taking tests with no books?
You must also own a Book of Style if you are trying to get a job at one of the national companies. You must know it before you test.
You must KNOW that you are going to be able to type at least 1200 lines per day and that DOES NOT include headers/footers and sometimes even spaces. Do you know whether your current line count includes those?
You must be prepared, if you have this many years of experience, to put out your 1200 lines per day within a week or so. If you are angry about something and your response is to drop your line count to 600 at a service, their answer to you will be see you later, have a nice life.
To be crying at work and not speaking to your manager is not a good thing, but you also should know that working from home is no cup of tea. You will receive email with feedback you may not like, calls or email from an account supervisor that contain things that make you upset. How will you handle that?
let me repeat what I said before
The element of control!
You got it, they don't.
The service (or client, if you call directly into it) has just so many lines and connections available. How will a service stay in business if they have 500 MTs and all of them want to work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.? So, they give the element of control to you ... "which time slot would you like to work?" There's nothing that says you can't bargain with them. I know you can, 'cause I have. I've had a problem with insomnia for years, so I'll work 2-3 hours until 5 -6 a.m. and then I go back to sleep for a while. When I get up again, I'll return to work for the rest of "the work day." That's one of the things I bring to the table. If the MTSO wants you badly enough, they'll negotiate on the times. If they won't, you don't work for them. You have the element of control.
As far as not knowing the law ... well, there's a very specific reason why you're told up front if you'll be an IC or not. And if you don't know what an "IC" is, you need to find out. If it applies to working and you get paid, go to the www.irs.gov website. No disrespect intended, but not doing that is as foolhearted (sp?) as taking a medication without knowing the side effects.
My temperament is such that there are some things I'm not willing to do. Work YOUR schedule (not you, personally) is one of them. I also won't work outside the home or learn a platform (i.e. DocScribe) ... no system is telling me how many lines I transcribed. That alone restricts my options of who I can work for. But, it's a risk I'm willing to take. So far, I've been lucky.
The bottom line is ... know what's expected of you BEFORE you apply for a job. But, don't apply for a position and when you're told that XYZ is "required," say "that's illegal by IRS laws." I've already been through it, and I'll tell you what the IRS told me: "If you have the element of control, you're an IC."
And for the record ... an IC sets the line rate, not the service. They also determine the manner in which lines are counted (i.e. Sylcount, Abacus). People need to keep that in mind the next time they applying for a position.
I have said this before and will repeat again
I have worked on Escription now for the same hospital, outsourced and once again picked up working for the same hospital on Escription, same platform, nothing changed. DO NOT count on Escription taking over anyone's job. My dictators have for the most part remained the same. Escription started out as better than I would have expected and life was good. For whatever reason, it has gone to a lot of salad this day (mixed up mess) and it does things now it did not do in the first place such as not putting in periods at the end of a sentence and knowing the next word (which is capitalized) is start of new sentence, does not insert physician's names when said (and if it does incorrect such as Dr. Brown), does not number in sequence (it did when I first started on the same system) so when you say VR will eventually take over, I see every day where it has a long way to go. It is so irritating to me now because of what I knew it could do when I started about 4 or 5 years ago and now such a mess. It is not because of the dictators and I have no idea why. I sometimes have numbering going from 1 to 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 and then 1 and so on, well you get the picture. Thank your lucky stars if you have Escription that works HALFWAY right because mine has gone to the dogs.
I repeat, the price of everything, the value of nothing.nm
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Do NOT get Vista. I repeat - DO NOT!
Better to buy a system at Best Buy and load your own software (i.e., XP Home Edition).
I repeat - and YOU have never had a typo?
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repeat offenders
I used to transcribe dictation from this one guy who was a chronic um-er and and uh-er and paper shuffler. Just for the heck of it, once I counted how many times he said "um" or
"uh" in a three-minute dictation, and it was something like 45 times! OMG, ridiculous! I've always thought that a good punishment for terrible dictators would be that they have to transcribe their own dictation for awhile!
Know this is probably repeat question but...
What are you using for a computer? I think in the past you said a laptop but I am not sure. Also, if it is a laptop, did you have to add extra memory, etc., to load all the software programs you need? I am very interested in what works as I have such back problems I had to let a lot of business go and am sorry with all this economy stuff, had I had your brain and done it your way, it would have been worth the investment. I just worry some won't accept a laptop, etc. Appreciate your comments, you are truly a "helping" person, that was the reason I chose this profession but not too many want to part with help. Kudos to you.
Repeat after me,,,,, I love that movie.
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My calendar says it's repeat the same sentence over-n-over day
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Hey, it took us over 8, I repeat 8 weeks to sign my FIL up for cable TV.
US-based call center, talked to a different ENGLISH-speaking person....and they still didn't get it right for 8 weeks, 10 phone calls, no joke. It's not all the fault of the offshore workers, it's right here on our own soil. Go figure!
Dont mean this situation. Mean repeat blanks,
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Guess you missed the part about deleted posts. Sorry, can't repeat again
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Computer techs - I want to add undo, redo, and repeat to my IE toolbar which are not listed as an
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Brain dead today - or is it hear hear? I'm going to bed.
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Marry me?! :) Seriously...hear, hear. Good post. - nm
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Yes--it airs at noon in the Pacific time zone after a repeat of last week's show. nm
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Poor dictators that stumble over something and do not repeat the sentence to clarify, choose to mumb
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Hear, hear! I agree with Dakota - sm
The MTSO should be giving feedback to the hospital/doctors who slur, speak too rapidly, etc. They need to pull up their socks! And there's no reason why these doctors shouldn't be given an outline of what is expected from them when they dictate, such as cell phones, chewing food, candy, gum, etc.
step outside the box?
I'm looking at your samples and asking myself, "How would I ever remmember that?"
To the moderator - you need to step up
and block this flamer from the board. We come here to chat nicely because we have isolating jobs and don't get out much. There is absolutely no need for someone to make these kind of statements to a mother. If her purpose is just to cause upset, then clearly she has no place here. Do the right thing.
Career Step
Hi - have any of you received your training from Career Step? If so, would you recommend the program? Thanks for you feedback.
Well, that's a step in the right direction!!!
Level the playing field a bit!
Thx for sharing!
career step
I am considering going to Career Step. I have been working as an MT for a few months now, but I do not feel that the course I took prepared me for the "real" world of transcription. My only question is that I also noticed the price diff in these online courses. That is primarily the reason why I am choosing to go with Career Step. MTec seems like a good school, but they are 3x as much. Will I get just as good an education?
Career Step
It's true, you get what you pay for. Andrews is #1, M-Tec is #2, and Career Step is a distant 3rd.
Career Step
I am attending Career Step. I have also been hired as a MT while still attending. I think the course is good. Good luck!!
M-Tec and Career Step
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Career Step
is the largest online school of medical transcription. You can join their forum even if you are not a student so that you can see for yourself what the grads in the forum say about their training. They are in there talking about their jobs all the time. Big companies like Spheris and Medquist and Transolutions hire CS graduates.
Not a Mom, just step-Mom and aunt
I tried for years to have a child, lost many early on in pregnancy and it was many years ago prior to the advances that they have now adays. But I do have two step-daughters -- one remembers me one does not even though I am divored from their father. She and I have stayed close and neither have seen their Dad since our divorce. But I have two nephews and a niece in the area that I am very close to who now have children ranging from 4 to 18. One of my great nephews told me yesterday, I am not a Mom but close, better than a Grandma because I am special Aunt Patti. So that made my day. For some reason the Lord chose for me to be that special person to my many nephews and nieces which I truly enjoy. And I get to send home when they become "too much". Love it and cherish my time with them.
12 step programs, which above are
referring to, are all based on God, a higher power - surrendering to that higher power, and then healing following the 12 steps. Leaving religion out of recovery is rather contradictory!
Career Step
Have you been to Career Step's website. It is a very friendly community there and you would get lots of support on their forums. www.careerstep.com.
Some need to step out of their box for a moment - eh! LOL. nm
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Is Career Step it?!
Any graduates of Career Step? Any information about how you felt about your experience would be greatly appreciated. I was so impressed by the website and information that I have received in the mail. I make $10/hr now in an office job. What are the chances that I can meet this as a grad?
Career Step is IT!
Hi,
I'm a CS graduate and would HIGHLY recommend them. I was so well prepared, I received a job offer in less than 24 hours from one of the top employers, AND I was able to start out in acute care as a grad.
Email me if you have additional questions. CS ROCKS!!!!
you gotta step outside the box a little...sm
twwa=the wound was
twwe or twsw= the wounds were
Look at Career Step
If you know the content you can take the tests.
oh gosh. I would have had to step away for
hours probably..... I do ER reports and had 4 bad ones in a row earlier this week - makes me really count my blessings. My toes curl typing procedures I have had or my children have had - I've never done an OP note such as you described... I don't think I could handle at all.
If not my kid, then the parents need to step up
and take care of their own child. If I need to work, do not babysit period. I took care of my children when they were little and they can take care of theirs. No time to spare when working.
Career Step
Career Step is one of the top 3 AHDI-approved schools. If you work well independently at your own pace, it may be a good program for you. It is an online course. I know from experience that employers will hire for at-home transcription work immediately after graduation from CS.
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