[cjc64]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a way to obtain some nursing informatics experience working from home? I have three small children and currently work as a staff nurse at night. I have a masters degree in health information systems that I obtained 9 years ago. Since them I have tried to pick up as many side jobs in my health system in informatics as possible. I have worked in Cerner development, training and testing. I have also been system admistrator for OB TraceVue and did training for this. I also have trained on other systems. I am looking for any IS experience that may be out there. Compensation is not that important. I just want to stay current in the field until my kids would get older.

Thanks

[perseus29]

I've gotten contracts where I work from home for 2-3 months, but that's as homey as it gets. I was just entering data into the system, but really, I was supposed to do that onsite, but then the client realized they didn't have to fly me in every week to do glorified data entry; i could do it from home, but once the building phase of the project was over with, then I had to go back to being onsite.

Only way that maybe you could pull it off was to do building or testing for a project, but again, that only goes for so long; if you were a developer, maybe then you could develop from home, but again, i know developers that work at big it companies, and they still have to go in for meetings and such. So the most they do is work from home 3 days a week.

[rninformatics]

Perhaps don't limit yourself to remote "Nursing Informatics" roles and instead market your experience and contributions as "Clinical Informatics", "Clinical Application Support", "Database Management, etc. What about Report Writing and Query building?
Any experience there? You could do this remote.

Have you thought about applying for part-time education/trainer positions? On site yes but it would at least allow you to keep your foot in the door....... so to speak.

Have you tried applying for HIT help desk positions - maybe off shift/night shift positions? I've worked remote providing this kind of support to users who were onsite and I'd just proxy in to their desktops to trouble shoot issues, resolve application and printer issues, etc.


You are not alone in your desire and search to work from home. See below.

A new survey by Dice Holding has found that IT workers don't like commuting and in fact, 37 percent would be willing to take up to a 10 percent pay cut to work from home full time. With the high cost of gasoline, the time lost getting to and from work, and the flexibility it offers, telecommuting is beginning to look better every day.
And with improvements in personal computers, videoconferencing, and Internet speeds, many telecommuters can deal with virtually all of their tasks from a home office.
For more on telecommuting:
- see this InformationWeek.com article

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=208403187

Originally Posted by cjc64

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a way to obtain some nursing informatics experience working from home? I have three small children and currently work as a staff nurse at night. I have a masters degree in health information systems that I obtained 9 years ago. Since them I have tried to pick up as many side jobs in my health system in informatics as possible. I have worked in Cerner development, training and testing. I have also been system admistrator for OB TraceVue and did training for this. I also have trained on other systems. I am looking for any IS experience that may be out there. Compensation is not that important. I just want to stay current in the field until my kids would get older.

Thanks

[NexLvlDad]

If you could get into configuring such as order sets and clinical documentation in Eclipsys, you could do most of that remotely (at home) and VPN into the hospital's development environment. Of course there is a learning curve. I learned it by shadowing others on a project at my job and I was then sent to the courses at the vendor site.