ikarus01 replied to Incognito Escondido's topic in Informatics
Miami---From my past experience, which is about 5 years ago, hospitals in that area always were low balling in salary, even with experience.
The other issue happening now is, obviously, a saturated market. I do consulting and only reason I have...
My first place of employment (eons ago--mid 90's--- 🤣) had a legal nurse do an in service about writing proper nursing notes. Back then, there was no Cures Act that allowed patients to see notes, but the lesson we learned was, if we were writing note...
ikarus01 replied to kaybrianna0's topic in Informatics
First thing, look at many of the posts here...a lot of people looking for preceptors. I myself don't understand the concept---you're paying thousands of dollars for a degree, and then you're on your own looking for a preceptor. Imagine going to nursi...
I have always been an advocate for trying to get a job with your current experience. It seems that a nursing informatics degree opens the doors to interviews, but it does not guaranteed a job.
I should know since at one my former employers, when...
do you know if your hospital reports the unvaccinated as the CDC does? If you took 1 dose of 2, for example, you fall under the unvaccinated category. Or do those stats consider 1 dose of 2 as vaccinated?
ikarus01 replied to BluePotion's topic in Informatics
You don't need to get an RN to go into informatics; I have worked with CNA's and LPN's who are now analysts or trainers.
Epic specialist---what specifically is your role with this job title? Are you doing elbow support? Training?
The next m...
I actually laughed at this because I had the same question in my brain.
This could have just been written as,
Some/a few vaccinated patients are winding up in the ICU.
Future politician in the making.
In the past 4 weeks, have had 2 family members who are boosterized with pfizer end up in the hospital with covid. One in her late 50's living in California, another one in her late 40's who lives in Florida.
I just spoke to one last night and sh...
hahaha! Definitely not. But I still remember that shift so clearly because it really "shocked" me. That director always wore scrubs when I went to that floor. Don't think I ever saw another nursing director like that on the floors. Most were nicely d...
Back in 2004 or so, was working as an agency nurse, and would mainly get sent to an orthopedics floor where everybody was very unhelpful.
One weekday, I was sent to a med surg floor. As soon as I step in, I'm told, you have an admission coming ...
ikarus01 replied to Lisa Brooks's topic in Informatics
Been in the so call informatics field since 2005, started as a Surginet analyst, then switched over to become a consultant, then became physician provider support in epic, then epic analyst. For me personally, I want a job that gives me the ability t...
Most NI programs are....a bit lacking. If I were you, I would spent time learning SQL because no matter what vendor software you work with, reports are always a hot commodity. And even if you are not in charge of doing reports, requests will always c...
ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Informatics
Plenty of old threads on this forum to answer as to what informaticists do. But if you have 10 years of med surg experience, didn't you ever document on computers? So the role of the informaticist is to roll those out. LIke right now..the covid19 ou...
ikarus01 replied to sara skidmore's topic in Informatics
So prior to the covid outbreak, the cost to get certified was 26k per certification. And I know because when you take a job as an epic analyst in some hospitals, they tell you that if they send you out to get certified and then you quit in less than ...