r/ODS_C

I know CE credits are required once you become certified, but do you also have to maintain a membership with NCRA to stay certified? I saw something on the NCRA website that said Annual Credential Maintenance fee so I wasn't sure what that's about. I wrapped up all of my AHIMA courses and will be sitting for the exam so my "student" memberships will be ending and I wanted to know if I have keep any of them active. I'll keep my state association one since it's not that expensive. Thanks for your help!

I’ve been seeing some job listings on LinkedIn and have noticed that some have 100+ applicants. If you are a hiring manager or recruiter, are all of these applicants certified ODS? Or do people who are not in this field see the words data , registry, and remote and apply to these jobs without reading the part where it says you have to be a certified ODS? Kind of discouraging to see so many people applying to jobs in this field, makes me wonder how the job market is like.

I just began my first job in this field, after passing the ODS-C exam in the spring. I'm wondering how long it took you experienced registrars to become accustomed to working with the EHR. I'm confident in my ability to use the manuals to determine reportability and abstract cases, but the amount and variety of information in the EHR is a bit overwhelming right now. I'm sure it'll get easier with practice, but I'd love to hear about your experiences when you were starting out.

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.

I have some question!