Please Do
- Understand how to use your recording equipment or microphone
- Dictate in a quiet area
- Speak clearly and into the microphone (don’t turn your head and keep talking when referencing the chart)
- Identify yourself
- For each dictation state:
- Patient name (spell it)
- Patient ID
- Type of dictation (letter, note, etc.)
- Date you want on the transcribed document
- Referring physician (spell name and address)
- Include punctuation (use “stop” or “full stop” for ends of sentences)
- Spell unusual diseases, drugs, procedures or words or sound alike words
Please Don’t
- Eat, drink or chew gum while dictating
- Forget to say “End of Dictation”
- Dictate in a noisy environment
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