-: I'm Zach Stevens
and I am an Emergency Medicine Medical Scribe.
So,
basically what a Medical Scribe is,
is someone that
follows a health care provider around
and we essentially just assist
in completing the electronic medical record.
That would be maybe procedure,
documentation or patient notes or charts.
I work with ER docs.
Sometimes PAs or NPs
and that's physician assistants
or nurse practitioners,
but yeah,
all of our work is done
in ER/urgent care hospital.
So a busy shift might be
watching where the doctors are going,
they could be seeing maybe 3,
4 or up to 5 patients at a time
and you are in charge of monitoring
and updating all of the charts
with incoming lab work,
or imaging results.
Making sure the doctors are keeping up
with what they need to be working on,
or checking in with patients after
lab results come in.
So our shifts are usually about 8 hours,
there are some that are 12,
but you work over 40 hours a week
in some cases.
So I would say in terms of the work load,
yeah, you are working with the doctor
a hundred percent of their shift.
On a typical day to day,
the physician will pick up a patient,
we'll go into a room,
we might see a hand laceration.
From there we have to completely change gears
and we're going to see an abdominal pain.
From there we might see
an ambulance,
someone who's just randomly brought in
and the whole time,
the doctor is putting in orders,
putting in labs
and as a scribe,
I'm in charge of making sure
all of the documentation is done simultaneously
with all three patients.
So I will be proactively going
back and forth into notes
and updating everything as it's happening.