Saturday, 1 June 2013

Work Handled By An Emergency Scribe

By Hassie J. Jewess


An ED scribe is charged with working with emergency department doctors and maintaining their patients' medical documents accurate. The core goal of an emergency scribe is to keep complete and accurate records of all the patients being visited by the doctor they have been assigned to. The reality is that modern emergency rooms are hectic, stressful places where doctors have very little time to properly attend to all of the patients that have been assigned to them. Doctors have a lot of tasks to attend to when working the ER and these sometimes make it impossible for them to take the time to discuss the cases of each patient at length like they would if they were not so short on time.

Emergency scribe professionals change that for doctors by doing almost all of their medical documentation for them and thus freeing up their time. While the doctor is conversing with their patients, checking blood pressure, and performing other procedures, the emergency doctor scribe documents everything that is going on so that it can be referenced later in the patient's medical history file. This is a highly valuable service to doctors who need to make very second count as they work their way through a long list of ER patients.

Hospital emergency rooms can get to be much more efficient by hiring an ER scribe for every one of their heavily burdened doctors working in the emergency department. Hospital managers know that time is money and that doctors are actually wasting their time with much of the simple medical paperwork that they fill out during each of their shifts. Allowing a doctor to focus on their primary objective, caring for patients, makes them more efficient and better able to offer the highest quality care to everyone in the ER.

A few facilities are worried that hiring emergency doctor scribe workers will represent a significant chunk of their budgets and will not be worth the expense. This is not always the case, however, because several documented cases of hospitals that have hired scribes have shown that doctors become more efficient and thus save time and money in the ER with scribe ER assistance.

The medical field is packed with job opportunities so many people who get jobs as an ER scribe eventually move on to excellent medical careers. The challenges of being an ER scribe also bring considerable rewards and get you ready for your future career goals.




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