Once the medication list has been completed, the doctor will start the PE. This gives me a moment to do some fine tuning on the HPI. After completing the HPI and ROS, they will review medications/surgical history/new diagnosis with the patients. At this point, the doctor will also discuss lab/imaging results. My providers like for me to pull the HPI from their previous encounter and copy it into the current HPI while making encounter-specific adjustments. The majority of the time, patients are blown away that there is actually someone on the phone and it’s not just a recording! My doctors then take their Heart Phones (Yale issued phones) into the room with them and introduce me and the patient. Example: Another doctor calls and gives them a verbal report on a patient. We start that day with normal greetings and specific information that they may have regarding each patient that I may not be privy to or pertinent information that may be critical to their visit that we ordinarily would not put into the note. Precharting allows me to capture the pertinent information and include it chronologically in my note.Īfter precharting is completed, my provider is usually ready to begin their day. My providers are very thorough with information that they like to have in each of their notes, including imaging, labs, and discharge summaries from hospital encounters. I know some scribes do not do this, but I believe it is more time efficient and allows the scribe to become more familiar with their work flow and their patients prior to their arrival. In the morning, before my provider signs on to Fluency for Scribes (FFS), I start my daily precharting. In addition, I have covered for their peers when they are out of the office.ĭaily duties remain relatively the same for each provider. They have allowed me to learn about specialties that I previously had no knowledge of but was very interested in. The amount of information I’ve gained from working with these amazing providers is not something that can be simplified into words. I have been very fortunate to be assigned three amazing, supportive, caring, and dedicated doctors.
I also learned that, much like healthcare, scribing is not one-size-fits-all! Everyone is willing and able to help new scribes succeed. However, I quickly learned that AQuity is a team/family. Intitally when I sat with them and watched their work flow, I was intimidated.
Immediately following the Scribe Academy, I was placed in Team Training and watched a fellow veteran scribe and his provider. The Scribe Academy is the first stop of many in virtual scribing, and it gives you a foundation of what to expect. In March 2019, I accepted a scribing position with AQuity and have not looked back! When I came on board with this company, I completed the training that is required by all scribes and felt it was geniunely beneficial.