Scribe Typing Proficiency

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Do scribe programs really look unfavorably on candidates that type slowly? I really want to apply to one for my gap year, but i'm only like 25wpm, which is pretty bad.
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Yeah you should be able to type pretty fast and accurately (no typos, spelling errors, grammatical errors, etc.).

I'd recommend practicing typing for a while, I'm sure you'll be able to type a lot faster than your current speed in a matter of weeks.
 
HealthHare said:
Do scribe programs really look unfavorably on candidates that type slowly? I really want to apply to one for my gap year, but i'm only like 25wpm, which is pretty bad.
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scribing is not the job for you (currently)
 
DOCBERT said:
Quickest way to improve typing: practice.
My favorite form of practice: online games.

You'd be surprised how quickly you can type when motivated. This is especially true in MMORPG where your messages can become quickly hidden by others messages. You have to type quickly to get your message seen. My typing speed from this "practice": 85 WPM 0% error.
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Haha I swear, Diablo 2 is the reason I can type 125wpm.

I wish I could find a scribe job.
 
DOCBERT said:
Quickest way to improve typing: practice.
My favorite form of practice: online games.

You'd be surprised how quickly you can type when motivated. This is especially true in MMORPG where your messages can become quickly hidden by others messages. You have to type quickly to get your message seen. My typing speed from this "practice": 85 WPM 0% error.
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I know what you mean -- I was a closet wow raider (priest). Same rules apply.
 
DOCBERT said:
Quickest way to improve typing: practice.
My favorite form of practice: online games.

You'd be surprised how quickly you can type when motivated. This is especially true in MMORPG where your messages can become quickly hidden by others messages. You have to type quickly to get your message seen. My typing speed from this "practice": 85 WPM 0% error.
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Were it not for my time spent during 7th grade insulting noobs in runescape, I would not have learned to type so quickly.
 
Someone aware me on this "scribe job"...
I have very good WPM if i say so myself (Years of SC2, WoW, and Diablo)
 
DOCBERT said:
Quickest way to improve typing: practice.
My favorite form of practice: online games.

You'd be surprised how quickly you can type when motivated. This is especially true in MMORPG where your messages can become quickly hidden by others messages. You have to type quickly to get your message seen. My typing speed from this "practice": 85 WPM 0% error.
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Haha, Runescape was my game 6+ years ago. True sentiment, games really do boost up your typing speed. Just be careful and not get addicted OP!
 
thread seems like a valid reason to resub WoW to practice my typing for scribing 🙂
 
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When I applied for a scribe position they had a 55wpm minimum requirement but they said that 60+ women to be competitive. I would reccomend practicing your skills and improving before applying.
 
I would say you'd need to improve. I'm a scribe, and it is important to be able to chart fast since efficiency is basically the purpose of our job lol On the other hand, with the program that we use at our hospital, we aren't required to do much free typing (most is clicking through preset options), but it is beneficial for specific parts of the chart (such as history of present illness and abnormalities to be noted in the exam).

As for those asking about scribe programs, I work for Scribe America and you can apply by going to their website http://scribeamerica.com. It has definitely been a great learning experience, and I think I will have a lot to talk about during interviews.
 
Yeah, I think you'd need to hit at least 50 wpm because I usually have to type over 70 wpm to keep up with what the doc or patient is saying. I had a typing test at my interview too. Just practice, there are tons of free typing programs online.
 
Stumpyman said:
Haha, Runescape was my game 6+ years ago. True sentiment, games really do boost up your typing speed. Just be careful and not get addicted OP!
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Selling coal, phats, and masks constantly on worlds 1 and 2 made my elementary school *failed* computer class go to 130 wpm at times.

Op, following my rs and wow life stages (lives really lol) I worked as a transcriber for a couple cardiologists' private practices in hs (typing ekgs, pt histories, clearance letters, etc). Without the speed, I wouldve been bringing in a lot less $$$

10 cents per line!
 
Hey bro, I was a scribe myself. I type well over 100 wpm (according to the online tests, at least) and noticed the doctors preferred me over the other scribes. You definitely need to be a quick typer or the physicians may get frustrated with you. I think you should practice your typing speed - being a scribe looks great on applications.

There is one thing to keep in mind, however. Not all scribe jobs are the same. Right before I quit, our doctors spent a couple of thousand dollars on a new program. This new program didn't require quick typers. You could type in "Me" and it would pull up Metaprolol. After they got the new program, I was no longer "favored." Basically, it depends on the system you guys use. You could type 10 wpm and that would be sufficient for the program we were using. Good luck!
 
ur2l8 said:
Selling coal, phats, and masks constantly on worlds 1 and 2 made my elementary school *failed* computer class go to 130 wpm at times.

Op, following my rs and wow life stages (lives really lol) I worked as a transcriber for a couple cardiologists' private practices in hs (typing ekgs, pt histories, clearance letters, etc). Without the speed, I wouldve been bringing in a lot less $$$

10 cents per line!
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Nerd time. Brings back super memories man, I remember trying to buy tons of essence as well and the confusing "matchmaking" process that would take place for the two frantically typing to finally find where each other are and shift to a quieter spot. Oh the days! Runescape definitely turned me into a 100+WPM typing beast.
 
Charles Darwin said:
A misc thing?
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mirin memes brah? LivelovelaughYOLO.

@other miscers.
aware



Serious post: Is it easy to get a job as a scriber? I'm surprised i've never heard of this. Seems like a very easy job that'll look good in your application (Currently a pharmacy technician, so i would have to quit this job).
 
ur2l8 said:
Selling coal, phats, and masks constantly on worlds 1 and 2 made my elementary school *failed* computer class go to 130 wpm at times.

Op, following my rs and wow life stages (lives really lol) I worked as a transcriber for a couple cardiologists' private practices in hs (typing ekgs, pt histories, clearance letters, etc). Without the speed, I wouldve been bringing in a lot less $$$

10 cents per line!
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Narmerguy said:
Nerd time. Brings back super memories man, I remember trying to buy tons of essence as well and the confusing "matchmaking" process that would take place for the two frantically typing to finally find where each other are and shift to a quieter spot. Oh the days! Runescape definitely turned me into a 100+WPM typing beast.
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You guys played with dignity. I think my "low" in that game was when I changed my character to a female and, well, made money. Note that I was 13 or 14 at the time :scared:

RS probably killed my childhood, but my typing speed improved like crazy as a result.
 
Narmerguy said:
Nerd time. Brings back super memories man, I remember trying to buy tons of essence as well and the confusing "matchmaking" process that would take place for the two frantically typing to finally find where each other are and shift to a quieter spot. Oh the days! Runescape definitely turned me into a 100+WPM typing beast.
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That damn nostalgia....I kinda wanna play again just to see what it's like...I never did manage to get that phat I always wanted :/
 
For you scribes out there who type often on the job, please explain to me how this works. I am a scribe, however, I honestly do not feel like I type very much at all. Our charts are still paper and pen, and the typing I do is very minimal (printing orders, putting in labs, etc.).

I would assume that your scribe jobs are mostly electronic. I believe my ED will be moving to all electronic this fall.
 
typicalindian said:
That damn nostalgia....I kinda wanna play again just to see what it's like...I never did manage to get that phat I always wanted :/
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Ya, i got strong nostalgia last night. So i decided to log into my WoW account (Good god, i've been paying $14 per month for the last couple months without even realizing it..), and like i expected, everyone still sucks in Arena. /sigh brb 1v2'ing people as a Ret paladin.
 
AestheticGod said:
Ya, i got strong nostalgia last night. So i decided to log into my WoW account (Good god, i've been paying $14 per month for the last couple months without even realizing it..), and like i expected, everyone still sucks in Arena. /sigh brb 1v2'ing people as a Ret paladin.
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Lol I could never bring myself to play WoW...I had to keep some of my dignity 😛
 
JCTWP46 said:
For you scribes out there who type often on the job, please explain to me how this works. I am a scribe, however, I honestly do not feel like I type very much at all. Our charts are still paper and pen, and the typing I do is very minimal (printing orders, putting in labs, etc.).

I would assume that your scribe jobs are mostly electronic. I believe my ED will be moving to all electronic this fall.
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Yes, our hospital uses electronic charting through MedHost. There isn't that much typing involved because there are preset templates for different chief complaints, so basically you just click through the positives/negatives in ROS and the exam. The only typing I do is in the HPI to give background info about the event or in the MDM when updating the ED course. There are also times when I need to type things into the exam when there isn't a clickable entry for the specific finding. We only have to do paper charting during computer downtime, and I honestly have never had to do one before.
 
HealthHare said:
Do scribe programs really look unfavorably on candidates that type slowly? I really want to apply to one for my gap year, but i'm only like 25wpm, which is pretty bad.
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WOW. I type 75wpm and bombed the online scribe test (took it for fun but have zero interest in doing it). The medical jargon and speed they talk at is very hard to keep up with. Im assuming that if you only type 25wpm that you will drown in the er environment as a scribe and piss off the doc...or get fired. Why not just do er tech or something? ( Getting my point across online may not be read the way I intended it so fyi..I was not being an ahole just suggesting something else for ya)
 
Ashh said:
Yes, our hospital uses electronic charting through MedHost. There isn't that much typing involved because there are preset templates for different chief complaints, so basically you just click through the positives/negatives in ROS and the exam. The only typing I do is in the HPI to give background info about the event or in the MDM when updating the ED course. There are also times when I need to type things into the exam when there isn't a clickable entry for the specific finding. We only have to do paper charting during computer downtime, and I honestly have never had to do one before.
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Interesting. Like I said all of ours has been paper, but I believe we are switching this fall. Hopefully it won't cause me any issues.
 
lol @ "Come in me, bro"
 
Made an account on typeracer tonight. Been playing for a couple of hours and am averaging 30 wpm. Hope to get 50+ by the end of the summer.
 
AestheticGod said:
mirin memes brah? LivelovelaughYOLO.

@other miscers.
aware



Serious post: Is it easy to get a job as a scriber? I'm surprised i've never heard of this. Seems like a very easy job that'll look good in your application (Currently a pharmacy technician, so i would have to quit this job).
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i worked for EMSS for about a month or 2, was in training but some management changed at my location so I've kinda been stuck in limbo and not really sure what im doing. I took the training course but it seems mostly clicking stuff super fast and knowing where things are.
 
Mavis beacon teaches typing. boom.
 
I'm an ED scribe and you do have to type fast. There are templates you can click through but to do a good HPI, you'll need to free type a good amount of info. The thing to get most used to is writing/typing your own shorthand. Docs tell you stories so fast I abbreviate everything at first. For example, "-n/v/dia/ha/numb/ting/sob" is equivalent to if a doctor told me "The patient denies nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, numbness, tingling, shortness of breath...". Then later I go back and write the HPI out in paragraph form.
 
Quick typing is really a necessity. I'm currently training new scribes and the ones that are most impressive to me and the docs are the ones that are great at taking dictations and typing quickly.

It's too easy to drown in a fast paced ED if you can't type fast. However, this is easy to improve, so work at it if you want to be a scribe.
 
Freigeist said:
I'm an ED scribe and you do have to type fast. There are templates you can click through but to do a good HPI, you'll need to free type a good amount of info. The thing to get most used to is writing/typing your own shorthand. Docs tell you stories so fast I abbreviate everything at first. For example, "-n/v/dia/ha/numb/ting/sob" is equivalent to if a doctor told me "The patient denies nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, numbness, tingling, shortness of breath...". Then later I go back and write the HPI out in paragraph form.
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Agk that sounds awful. They just don't pay enough for me to do this even though I can type pretty quickly.
 
So are you guys carrying laptops into the room with the physician and typing as he questions the pt? Is there a place to sit? Seems a little inconvenient.
 
JCTWP46 said:
So are you guys carrying laptops into the room with the physician and typing as he questions the pt? Is there a place to sit? Seems a little inconvenient.
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Our department used to have small tablets, but they all are broken. I bring a small notebook and a pen, and I shorthand the symptoms and exam findings. When we get back to the computers I chart everything. There are also computers in most critical care rooms where I can chart if I need to, but I find it easier to write everything and chart later.
 
Same here, use paper first then chart on the comp. my friend scribes at a different hospital where they have a laptop on a small table with wheels they bring into the patients' rooms
 
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