What I wish was different
There are several things that I wish could have been different but I will only go over the most pertinent ones.. First of all, the management was terrible. They were extremely unprofessional and even rude at times. Now, I worked there for two years, and one of the chief scribes had only been there for 3 months! This is not an issue for me, only how she handled certain situations and went about things. I was a full time college student and had to work another job to support myself. They did not care about me or how I felt about anything. This is what ultimately led me to quit. The district manager was pretty much non-existent, so the only people you could talk to if you needed support were from the chief scribes. Their lack of communication of certain things (like when to have your schedule in) made it so much more difficult to work for them. It seemed like every week they changed certain rules and made it impossible for me to work there.
The pay is awful, the base pay is $10/hr after your 90 day probationary period. I only made more because I had to apply for a raise after meeting certain qualifications. If you work to support yourself, then this is not an ideal job for you. I had to work another job on top of going to school full time to support myself.
There is an extremely high turnover rate. I constantly had to fix other scribes mistakes. Now I don't think this was their fault, rather the training was very inconsistent and some of the physicians were difficult to work with. The chief scribes at that time did not implement a decent training regiment which I believe led to our high turn over rate.
