Have you read a hospital chart carefully?

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62. Congratulations on starting nursing school!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I hope you love it and find it immensely rewarding.

Because I've worked at home for years now, I haven't personally experienced the competitiveness among in-house transcriptionists, though I don't doubt for a minute that it exists. The rapid computerization (including voice recogniton) and corporatization of our work has left a lot of transcriptionists feeling very threatened, which is apparent from MT discussion boards.

Basically, many MTs now work harder for less in return. Computerization and being removed from the in-house clinical setting means a certain amount of isolation and depersonalization, as well as having "more, better, faster" demanded of us.

In any case, I'm still doing transcription and still enjoying it, but I also feel very lucky to be near retirement age, a natural night owl (working hours that few others want), and without a need to compete for work.

Best of luck to you in school and in your future clinical profession!