Well, after two weeks of trying to catch up on some backed up paperwork that needed to be put in patients' charts, it seems like we're not making much progress. I was hired on a temporary basis (3-4 weeks is what I was told in the interview). The items I was hired to file are filed, but now, we're 2 weeks behind on the stuff we should have been filing. Ironic, huh?
Well, we're trying to get a system to make things run a little smoother during this whole process, but one of the people I work with can't seem to grasp her function in life. Three times today, I go to do what I'm supposed to be doing, and there she is... doing my job instead of hers! I talked to her about it twice, but the third time, I just had to get outta there. I told the other person (who is the long term employee of the group - I guess he's actually the supervisor of the records section) and he's frustrated with her too. Well, I'm here to tell you that crap ain't gonna last long. Do your job and not mine because:
a) you're in my way.
b) you're not doing your job.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Uneventful Monday...
Well, as far as Monday's go, today was just okay. No complaints, but nothing to brag about either. Traffic was pretty light on the way to work this morning due to Spring Break, and it was a pretty quick cruise home too.
I made dinner when I got home, since Sandra had a throbbing headache. She was taking a nap when I got home, so I figured I'd make "Breakfast Skillet". I opened up the new Tropicana 50 juice (Pineapple Mango) and we had breakfast in bed and watched our Monday night comedies on CBS.
Going to take some medicine and hit the sack... still had the sniffles from yesterday. But I felt pretty good today considering.
Gearing up to take some resumes downtown this week... they are updated and printed. I am going to research some of the places I am going to before I drop them off. I don't want to look like an idiot when I walk in there and they ask why I want to work at a nephrology clinic, for example, and I don't even know what it is. LOL
Will be updating later this week, unless something exciting happens sooner.
"Dueces"
I made dinner when I got home, since Sandra had a throbbing headache. She was taking a nap when I got home, so I figured I'd make "Breakfast Skillet". I opened up the new Tropicana 50 juice (Pineapple Mango) and we had breakfast in bed and watched our Monday night comedies on CBS.
Going to take some medicine and hit the sack... still had the sniffles from yesterday. But I felt pretty good today considering.
Gearing up to take some resumes downtown this week... they are updated and printed. I am going to research some of the places I am going to before I drop them off. I don't want to look like an idiot when I walk in there and they ask why I want to work at a nephrology clinic, for example, and I don't even know what it is. LOL
Will be updating later this week, unless something exciting happens sooner.
"Dueces"
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sickly Sunday...
Well, yesterday coming home from the grocery store, I told Sandra my throat was kinda scratchy and she said hers was too. It only got worse through the evening. Woke up LATE this morning, took some medicine, and chilled out in bed for a few more hours.
Drank my coffee in bed... Of course my wonderful wife brought it (and the medicine I took earlier). Then, she cooked an early dinner, we watched some NCAA basketball games, and now some recorded shows on the DVR.
I'm feeling better and will probably take some more medicine before bed tonight.
Hope you all had a great weekend!!
Drank my coffee in bed... Of course my wonderful wife brought it (and the medicine I took earlier). Then, she cooked an early dinner, we watched some NCAA basketball games, and now some recorded shows on the DVR.
I'm feeling better and will probably take some more medicine before bed tonight.
Hope you all had a great weekend!!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The weekend is here
Well, the workweek is over... and now for the weekend. Looks like it's going to be a cold rainy weekend, but I'll take it.
Went and picked up Haley & Cameron so we could meet up with Melissa, Alex, Levi & Keegan. Went to the movies and saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's based of a book series. It was pretty funny. Check out the trailer and other stuff from the movie website. Psst... I made a link back there. Did ya see it?
Looks like we're gonna be grocery shopping and other fun stuff this weekend. The kids are going on cruises (Corbin is going with some Senior friends and Kayla is going with her dad) for Spring Break and they leave tomorrow. We have to get them both some motion sickness medicine and get it to them today. Sandra packed up other meds for them so they don't have to worry about it if they need them while they're off having fun. We hope they don't need any of it, but it's better to be prepared. Especially since there's not a Walgreen's on every corner of the ship.
I might be getting a new phone this weekend... we'll see. I had a dream about having a new phone and being on a trip. It wasn't good. Not sure if that was a sign and if it was, was it a good one or a bad one? LOL
Went and picked up Haley & Cameron so we could meet up with Melissa, Alex, Levi & Keegan. Went to the movies and saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's based of a book series. It was pretty funny. Check out the trailer and other stuff from the movie website. Psst... I made a link back there. Did ya see it?
Looks like we're gonna be grocery shopping and other fun stuff this weekend. The kids are going on cruises (Corbin is going with some Senior friends and Kayla is going with her dad) for Spring Break and they leave tomorrow. We have to get them both some motion sickness medicine and get it to them today. Sandra packed up other meds for them so they don't have to worry about it if they need them while they're off having fun. We hope they don't need any of it, but it's better to be prepared. Especially since there's not a Walgreen's on every corner of the ship.
I might be getting a new phone this weekend... we'll see. I had a dream about having a new phone and being on a trip. It wasn't good. Not sure if that was a sign and if it was, was it a good one or a bad one? LOL
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Work...
Well, I'm kinda on the fence about this whole work thing (at least at the clinic where I'm working right now). They are pretty jacked up and apparently, have been for quite some time. Let me elaborate a bit:
1.) The time clock is 20 minutes fast (actually 22 by my phone). It has been like that for as long as anyone that works there can remember. I asked why don't they fix it? Even after daylight savings time over the years, they keep it 20 minutes off (it's an hour and 20 off right now). Go ahead and see if you can guess why... really. Try and guess. Hopefully you won't come up with the same reasoning they have. It's that way so people aren't late for work... "it gives you 20 more minutes to get to work on time" is what one person told me. And there's a sheet posted in the break room with everyone's break times on it. Of course those times are according to the time clock, not real time. Seriously?! So I'm supposed to go on break at 10:15am, but it's really not till 10:35. Same with lunch and last break... I guess that's like setting your watch ahead 10 minutes so you're never late? If ya know it's fast, you know you have that cushion... all I can say is OMG!
2.) I work in medical records. We don't pull the records for upcoming appointments. All we do is put test results, office visit paperwork, and hospital correspondence in the charts once that information is received. The people that work in the clinic have no clue on how the charts are assembled, so they just throw their paperwork in there and we have to put it in the chart. Also, the charts are all in a couple of separate areas, but the same concept applies. They are on the big shelves that move so you can get to the other aisle, in alphabetical order. Once we get all the paperwork put in the charts, we put them back on the racks where they belong. Simple right? Well, apparently, someone is not too good with the English alphabetical system. I've seen people looking for charts and reciting the alphabet to themselves. No problem... I catch myself saying it (to myself) too every now and then. But here's what irritates me: when someone else creates work for me, I have a problem with that. It took me about 30 minutes (and I was busting my arse) to pull all of the charts with last name beginning with MA off the rack so I could push back the MC section, then put the MA charts in front of them. Someone thought MC comes before MA? And how long has it been like that?
Other than that, things aren't too bad there. I don't like standing up all day. The area where the medical records people work from is a 20 foot hallway with a bunch of cubby holes like a built-in bookcase in a house. We use the cubbies and it's nice, but there is alot of crap thrown in them and it generally looks like poop. We have no office, no desks, and we have 2 "computers" to look up patient info on. Why do I put quotation marks around "computers", you ask? One of them is a Windows-based, FAIRLY modern model. The other has about a 9 inch monitor, green screen like the old Commodore 64 in the mid 80's and no mouse. You have to use the function keys and some weird commands. I don't even like the old Windows computer we can use... I SURE don't care for that old fossil that is worth more as a collectors item than it is as an actual working system.
Well, that's it for today... Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Today was my first payday there. Had 48 hours on the check. I just did the paperwork for withholding taxes and such last week so how wrong could payroll have it screwed up? Hmmm... let's see. FITW: 2 exemptions, State: 2 also. How much taxes taken from my check? State looked okay, but federal? Let's go with zero. Are you kidding?
Well, time to crash... it's been a long week. Sandra and I are both worn out.
1.) The time clock is 20 minutes fast (actually 22 by my phone). It has been like that for as long as anyone that works there can remember. I asked why don't they fix it? Even after daylight savings time over the years, they keep it 20 minutes off (it's an hour and 20 off right now). Go ahead and see if you can guess why... really. Try and guess. Hopefully you won't come up with the same reasoning they have. It's that way so people aren't late for work... "it gives you 20 more minutes to get to work on time" is what one person told me. And there's a sheet posted in the break room with everyone's break times on it. Of course those times are according to the time clock, not real time. Seriously?! So I'm supposed to go on break at 10:15am, but it's really not till 10:35. Same with lunch and last break... I guess that's like setting your watch ahead 10 minutes so you're never late? If ya know it's fast, you know you have that cushion... all I can say is OMG!
2.) I work in medical records. We don't pull the records for upcoming appointments. All we do is put test results, office visit paperwork, and hospital correspondence in the charts once that information is received. The people that work in the clinic have no clue on how the charts are assembled, so they just throw their paperwork in there and we have to put it in the chart. Also, the charts are all in a couple of separate areas, but the same concept applies. They are on the big shelves that move so you can get to the other aisle, in alphabetical order. Once we get all the paperwork put in the charts, we put them back on the racks where they belong. Simple right? Well, apparently, someone is not too good with the English alphabetical system. I've seen people looking for charts and reciting the alphabet to themselves. No problem... I catch myself saying it (to myself) too every now and then. But here's what irritates me: when someone else creates work for me, I have a problem with that. It took me about 30 minutes (and I was busting my arse) to pull all of the charts with last name beginning with MA off the rack so I could push back the MC section, then put the MA charts in front of them. Someone thought MC comes before MA? And how long has it been like that?
Other than that, things aren't too bad there. I don't like standing up all day. The area where the medical records people work from is a 20 foot hallway with a bunch of cubby holes like a built-in bookcase in a house. We use the cubbies and it's nice, but there is alot of crap thrown in them and it generally looks like poop. We have no office, no desks, and we have 2 "computers" to look up patient info on. Why do I put quotation marks around "computers", you ask? One of them is a Windows-based, FAIRLY modern model. The other has about a 9 inch monitor, green screen like the old Commodore 64 in the mid 80's and no mouse. You have to use the function keys and some weird commands. I don't even like the old Windows computer we can use... I SURE don't care for that old fossil that is worth more as a collectors item than it is as an actual working system.
Well, that's it for today... Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Today was my first payday there. Had 48 hours on the check. I just did the paperwork for withholding taxes and such last week so how wrong could payroll have it screwed up? Hmmm... let's see. FITW: 2 exemptions, State: 2 also. How much taxes taken from my check? State looked okay, but federal? Let's go with zero. Are you kidding?
Well, time to crash... it's been a long week. Sandra and I are both worn out.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
A full week + at the new job...
Well, it has been a little over a week since I started in the medical records area at a Little Rock clinic. It started out kinda slow, with alot of sorting old correspondence from hospitals and other clinics. That was sitting in the basement at a long table with stacks of papers.
Then after 2 full days of that, it has been 4 days (and counting) of non-stop standing, walking, stooping, and squatting... exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I went to school to get the sit down job.
Will keep you posted. I created this blogspot over a week ago, but haven't written on it till now... I think with a new career on the horizon, this would be a good venue to keep track of it all.
Later!!
Then after 2 full days of that, it has been 4 days (and counting) of non-stop standing, walking, stooping, and squatting... exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I went to school to get the sit down job.
Will keep you posted. I created this blogspot over a week ago, but haven't written on it till now... I think with a new career on the horizon, this would be a good venue to keep track of it all.
Later!!
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