mariafh

mariafh has 35 years experience and specializes in Informatics, Med/Surg.

Latest Activity

1. Professional Organizations

   mariafh replied to DataJack BSN-RN's topic in Informatics

   ANIA: American Nursing Informatics Association is a nationwide nursing informatics group that is very active. HIMSS, a general HIT organization, also has a nursing workgroup and a very active nursing informatics membership. Also, there are local gr...

2. The Path to Informatics

   mariafh replied to micheRN323's topic in Informatics

   I am a nurse with a MSN and a MSCS. With a CS degree, you might also consider working for a vendor in one of the various areas of development, not implementation or field support. Of course, that is more technical than the NI position in the hospi...

3. Accelerated Nursing Program/ NYU Nursing Informatics program

   mariafh replied to JMR85112's topic in Informatics

   I am a nurse that then earned a MS in computer science. Whether you pick a MIS or CS degree really depends on what you want to do. I wanted to work for a vendor in R&D to actual build and design the systems that are installed in hospitals. Som...

4. Nursing Informatics CE -- any one-stop shops?

   mariafh replied to Murse901's topic in Informatics

   The ania organization provides their conference web sessions as a package. Each conference is about 15 to 30 credits. They cost about $300 for the entire conference of sessions. There are multiple conferences available. All of them are web casts....

5. A round about way into nursing informatics

   mariafh replied to guest042302019's topic in Informatics

   As a nurse with a computer science degree, I would only recommend a computer science degree if one wants to be involved with software design and development, most likely for a vendor. The degree takes a lot of work and has a very specific focus. M...

6. Another "should I do this".....

   mariafh replied to FLmomof5's topic in Informatics

   You might want to also consider working for a vendor either in R&D, support, or quality. I work for a vendor, and we have nurses who earned engineer/CS degrees later as well as engineers who later became nurses. They work as business analyst, s...

7. Question about standardizing data

   mariafh replied to jlao's topic in Informatics

   SNOMED CT will not define what should be charted about urine output and its color. SNOMED CT main purpose is to tag the data that is charted so that it can be understood and later used for analysis. So SNOMED CT will not provide you the choice list...

8. Keep your license?

   mariafh replied to theantichick's topic in Informatics

   I been working in a vendor's office for over 20 years designing and developing HIT systems. I still maintain my nursing license, although my position doesn't require it and doesn't require me to be a clinician. Besides feeling it is the right thin...

9. Start in Nursing Informatics dilemma

   mariafh replied to KDuncan890's topic in Informatics

   A BS in Data Analytics is a specialized degree that focuses on data, databases, database queries/reports, and analysis. Looking on line, some also have business courses, programming courses, and other technical courses. Can it get you into nursing ...

10. Looking for feedback on my "dream" job

    mariafh replied to njax's topic in Informatics

    I am a informatics nurse involved with designing applications with a vendor. Yes, the dream job you are looking for is most likely found within the vendor environment. It may be found in a hospital, but not as likely. Infomatics nurses in the ven...

11. Am I remotely qualified?

    mariafh replied to downthealley,BS's topic in Informatics

    You might want to look at the HIT vendors . Your background would be applicable to multiple positions. You could work in R&D designing HIT system as a business analyst, software quality testing, support, customer implementation, and so on. Dev...

12. Biomedical engineering & nursing?

    mariafh replied to EGVnurse's topic in Informatics

    I am a nurse that went into computer science. I now work for a healthcare IT vendor developing software. I have heard of other nurses, although quite a while ago, that went into biomedical engineering. But I don't know where they are now. Most b...

13. Informatics Nursing Certification Maintenance

    mariafh replied to NI Nursing's topic in Informatics

    I am about to do my third renewal. It is actually 150 contact hours if you don't do some of the other professional activities such as publications. A couple of easy, and somewhat reasonable cost wise options are (1) HIMSS Online Conference (2) SI...

14. Where is the innovation??

    mariafh replied to bnizi's topic in Informatics

    As a developer of these systems, there are a few reasons that might associated with this. Some have already been mentioned. First, healthcare and its documentation/processes are complex. This industry, with all of its nuances, rules, etc is not s...

15. Application Systems Analyst

    mariafh replied to MissRN11's topic in Informatics

    I have seen many variation of titles in healthcare informatics, including all kinds of variation of the term "analyst". I have also seen two people with the same title responsible for very different tasks in different organizations. The only way ...