Week 2 of my new job, and it is getting better. That first week is always overwhelming, and you are worried about being "you" and wondering if that is too much, or not enough. A little bit about what I am doing. I work at a sleep clinic, and I am one of many assistants to the four doctors we have there. 2 of them are PA's, so even though they don't have that MD after their names, they pretty much do their own thing, and are amazing! 2 days a week, we have two pulmonologists that rent out an office, and we also bring their patients back. On Thursdays and Fridays, it can be overwhelming rooming for 6 docs.
We all are going to be doing the same job, all on a rotation so that one of us isn't always doing the same thing, and we are able to be cross trained to hop in where needed. For the time being, I am working in the back, and I take on A LOT of patients every single day. The other day I counted, and I saw 48 patients. I was tired that day, lol!
I bring the patients back, do their ht/wt/bp, and then I download their cpap machines to get their most recent readings ready for the doctors. It sounds way easy, but it is far from easy. It is very hectic, time consuming, and these patients want to somehow connect with you, but there is zero time for that in this busy day, and I am responsible for being a time keeper, and hustling patients back. "Every day I'm hustling!" that is what song is always in my head..keep em moving!
During my "downtime" which makes me giggle, I am responsible for making sure charts are built, and ready for the patients that are coming in that night for their sleep study. I am on the phone with insurance companies, and PCP's trying to figure out where my prior authorizations are, and making sure they are built into the system, and that we have their chart notes from their most recent visit ready for the sleep techs that will be helping them that night. There is a lot of pressure, and just when I have rubber-banded my charts and placed an "ok for sleep studies" sticky on it, 3 patients may cancel, and 2 more get added on..all for that very evening. I run. I hustle. I move my ass, and I have never felt better. It is a hard job, I know it sounds easy..but it is a HARD job. I am constantly on the computer, constantly digging through my chart cart, constantly doing paperwork, and then oops! I have a patient checking in..It is rewarding because the Dr's like me. :) I had one of them tell me today "You are so good, and SO fast. Thank you!" :) yes, I am so relieved to be liked. I think everyone wants to be told you are liked.
I will be learning the scheduling aspect, and then the check out desk job in the next week or more. That seems even scarier, but I hope to do good. The good thing is I am never alone, and there are some great, wonderful gals in the office, always so eager to help. Hmm. Teamwork. I am not sure of that term. I haven't seen, nor heard it in a long time. I was happy to look at my payroll, and saw that since I moved to the hospital, I got a wage increase since I am hospital, and not clinic. That was a nice surprise!
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