How Do You Explain What We Do To People Outside Of This Field?
I’m fairly new to this job, got certified in December and landed my role in mid February. Ever since then, I’ve had numerous healthcare professionals ask me what I do for a living, but when I tell them that I am a tumor registrar/ODS, they have no idea what that is. I’ll tell them I am, essentially, responsible for looking through patient records and collecting information about their cancer journey to create a report called an abstract and that information gets turned over to the state and the feds. This came up recently at a nutritionist appointment, she was very insistent that I must be a nurse even though I explained I work remotely for a state on the West Coast (I live in Texas) and I am at a loss. I’m only 25, so I know this question will inevitably come up again in the future.