[crazErn]

Hello all,
I am hoping to glean some assistance from the list regarding furthering my education.
I have been a nurse for 25 years and have worked in several different positions.
For the last 16 months I have worked in Nursing Admin as a project coordinator.
I love this position. I have assisted in implementing the Vocera communications system in our hospital.
I am assisting in a new call light system and also a GE Dinamap Vital signs monitor with Care Fusion to interface with our Meditech EMR.
My main focus however is as a clinical lead for the implementation of CPOE in our Meditech Magic 5.5 sr3 platform. I had worked very little with Meditech prior to this position even though my entire career has been here at LMH.

Now the reason for my e-mail. I greatly enjoy assisting in building CPOE and helping with the NUR module. I have built assessments for our out pt clinics and psych department and am constantly learning more every day. My future goal is to continue in this "nursing informatics" position and eventually relocate to the Carolina's.
I am a Diploma Nurse who graduated from Mt Carmel School of Nursing, which 25 years ago was a 3 year school. I feel that I am at a crossroads and am trying to decide on my next step, do I get my BSN or a BS in another related field and if so where from. I like the idea of on-line learning as I am working full time and could do this in the evenings.

Any help and advice any one can offer would be greatly appreciated.

[Suesquatch]

I was just hired into an informatics spot. My background was systems and I became a nurse a couple of years ago.

One thing that helped, aside from the background, is that I am going on in school. www.excelsior.edu is on-line, and has an RN to MSN option in clinical informatics. I am pursuing it.

Good luck! I enjoy this.

[jmgrn65]

I would get the BSN. Good Luck

[akanini]

suesquatch I was looking into that program and wanted to know how much and how long is their program?