You’ll need
Certifications
✓No Certification, Competency or License Required
Education
✓High School Diploma or GED (Required) Experience: 2 yrs experience in medical office, clinical, or hospital setting. Medical transcription experience is preferred.
Qualifications
✓Patient Group Knowledge (Only applies to positions with direct patient contact)
✓The employee must possess/obtain (by the end of the orientation period) and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment or care as defined by the department’s identified patient ages.
✓Specifically the employee must be able to demonstrate competency in: 1) ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of patient needs
✓2) knowledge of growth and development
✓and 3) understanding of the range of treatment needed by the patients.
✓Competency Statement
✓Must demonstrate competency through an initial orientation and ongoing competency validation to independently perform tasks and additional duties as specified in the job description and the unit/department specific competency checklist.
✓Substitutions: Formalized training in Medical Transcription, Medical Terminology, and/or Physiology may be substituted for 2 yrs experience
About the role
The scribe is responsible to capture accurate and detailed documentation of patient encounters in the electronic health record (EHR) or by handwritten record. Scribes are not permitted to make independent decisions or translations while entering information into the medical record.
What you’ll do
Assist the physician inAssist the physician in navigating the EHR
Respond to various messagesRespond to various messages as directed by the physician
Locate information for reviewLocate information for review (i.
Entering information into theEntering information into the medical record as directed by the physician (click or type)
Researching information as requestedResearching information as requested by the physician