Chief Scribe with ScribeAmerica

[Carlslee]

So I worked for ScribeAmerica before. During the interview, we agreed that since I was a full time student, I would only work weekends and that was fine. She then changed up my schedule and had me working overnight during the week and I asked her to go back and she refused, etc. the relationship at that hospital (only with ScribeAmerica) ended somewhat badly. The practitioners and co-workers loved me, just that chief scribe didn't. I reapplied like 8 months later for a job in Denver (last job was in Mississippi) and they said the ERs were full but they would like me to interview for a Chief Scribe position at an Immunology clinic. She offered me the job but it only paid $2 more than what I made in MS and CO is much more expensive as far as cost of living. Well I emailed her back with a counter offer to raise my wages to adjust for COL and that was yesterday at 3pm. It hasn't been a full 24 hours but I'm very nervous and actually scared that I may have compromised getting the job at all. Has anyone ever had experience with sending a counter offer to Scribe America and getting at least a compromise? They originally offer $12 an hour for a chief scribe position in Denver, but I made $10 an hour as an ER scribe in MS and was scraping by so I'm scared that if I accepted the $12 an hour (after training) I wouldn't be able to afford rent/food/etc in colorado. Help?

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[trev5150]

Counting on Scribe America as an actual living wage source of income is a bad model. Like fast food, these kinds of jobs are not and never were designed to pay the bills. They exist to allow otherwise inexperienced people to get some experience simply working and being an employee. These places that ScribeAmerica functions in don't really need ScribeAmerica, or you for that matter. The ER gets a little light paperwork done (paperwork that could just as efficiently be done by clinical staff) in trade for the "clinical exposure" you as a pre-med need for your resume, and a few, repeat few, bucks. They're taking the hit on a few person every few weeks or whatever because they are contributing to the early stages of medical education just by allowing you to be there.

I'll use an analogy from my previous working universe. No certified flight instructor CFI) does just flight instruction as a full-time job. One in 5,000 actually has enough students to sustain a living above the poverty line, and think if the stakes. That 22 year old CFI is teaching people to fly airplanes. That dude is delivering pizzas.

How do you get a CFI to leave? Pay him for the pizza. Badump-chaaa

Flight instructors might make $17 and hour but the likely average is about 10 hours a week. The margin is slim because their payoff is the flight time - the hours they need to build to get into that first regional job flying for Cape Air or someplace like that - where they're getting less money pr hour and the time doesn't start until the aircraft pushes back from the gate.

So in conclusion:

1. Stop thinking of it as a real job
   
2. Be glad they're even talking to you, dime-a-dozen pre-med
3. Think like a business person. Realize they're making money off of you. You're not getting what the hospital is paying for you per hour. It's a business. The business model isn't there for you, it's for ScribeAmerica. Just like Wendy's and Mickey D's
   
4. Take the gig
5. Deliver a few pizzas afterward.

 

[cardzfan]

Scribeamerica cares zero about their workers and they don't know how to run a business. They expected me to work at another hospital 45 minutes away last minute with no incentive pay. They offered me the chief scribe position and luckily I'm attending medical school in the summer, but I would have declined anyways because they best down their chief scribes until they quit. Honestly, just get a regular job that pays well and volunteer whatever you can in a clinical setting and it won't hurt you


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[SunnyDO]

Counting on Scribe America as an actual living wage source of income is a bad model. Like fast food, these kinds of jobs are not and never were designed to pay the bills. They exist to allow otherwise inexperienced people to get some experience simply working and being an employee. These places that ScribeAmerica functions in don't really need ScribeAmerica, or you for that matter. The ER gets a little light paperwork done (paperwork that could just as efficiently be done by clinical staff) in trade for the "clinical exposure" you as a pre-med need for your resume, and a few, repeat few, bucks. They're taking the hit on a few person every few weeks or whatever because they are contributing to the early stages of medical education just by allowing you to be there.

I'll use an analogy from my previous working universe. No certified flight instructor CFI) does just flight instruction as a full-time job. One in 5,000 actually has enough students to sustain a living above the poverty line, and think if the stakes. That 22 year old CFI is teaching people to fly airplanes. That dude is delivering pizzas.

How do you get a CFI to leave? Pay him for the pizza. Badump-chaaa

Flight instructors might make $17 and hour but the likely average is about 10 hours a week. The margin is slim because their payoff is the flight time - the hours they need to build to get into that first regional job flying for Cape Air or someplace like that - where they're getting less money pr hour and the time doesn't start until the aircraft pushes back from the gate.

So in conclusion:

1. Stop thinking of it as a real job
   
2. Be glad they're even talking to you, dime-a-dozen pre-med
3. Think like a business person. Realize they're making money off of you. You're not getting what the hospital is paying for you per hour. It's a business. The business model isn't there for you, it's for ScribeAmerica. Just like Wendy's and Mickey D's
   
4. Take the gig
5. Deliver a few pizzas afterward.

Best advice.