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  1. How long has your husband been a doctor? I think they passed a law where they prevented kickbacks; but back in 1998, 1999, when I lived in the Miami area, my friend who was a doctor in south florida, would go on cruises, and always had good tickets t...
  2. Nursing right for me?

    As somebody suggested, if you can do the internship program where pre health students are exposed to direct patient care experience, then do that, as that would be your best way of finding you if direct patient care is for you; if you can't do that, ...
  3. Am I right for Nursing Informatics? Please weigh in.

    "Might this be a good field for me? What do you all do on a day-to-day basis?" Yes, this field would be excellent for you. If i were in your shoes, I would clean up the resume, and start sending it out. In this field many times they are looking for...
  4. The main thing about these tests is to pay attention to the questions because they will repeat in a different manner, and that's how they catch if you're faking it, or it throws a red flag that you're not being honest. Example questions that get t...
  5. need help with interview question

    I've had a similar question in an interview before and my response was: Upon learning that my assigned tasks were not in alignment with my values, I immediately informed my manager about my concerns. I explained to them why the tasks assigned confl...
  6. So far NO one has gotten GB from this H1N1 vaccine because trials are just starting. And even if somebody has a negative reaction to the vaccine, I highly doubt the pharmaceutical companies will come out and advertise the fact that somebody got GB fr...
  7. Can new RN grads start in Informatics?

    If you want to do informatics, just start applying and see what turns up. Companies like Epic, Cerner, Siemens, etc, love to brag that they have IT nurses in their staff because that gives them a lot more credibility when going to hospitals and imp...
  8. Job security -- what are you seeing?

    As rninformatics says, consulting businesses are seeing a slowdown from years past. A friend of mine own a consulting company and I'm friends with a recruiter from another place; they both say that there are jobs in specific areas, but not the wide ...
  9. expired texas nursing license

    Thank you so much for your post and link!!!
  10. Any Austin inside 411?

    So did you get any advice? Even though there are a few hospitals in the area, there are two main networks; Seton and St. David's. I used to work in the seton network, and i knew nurses that worked at st davids and came to seton, and those that were...
  11. expired texas nursing license

    Does anybody know what's the process to renew an expired texas nursing license? We have looked through the texas board website, and all we can find is the link to renew a current license; we tried calling the board too, but all we get is, 'represent...
  12. Have any Texas Nurses been employed in England?

    My friend who works as a nurse in Reading (outside of London area), makes 26k a year, and she's been a nurse for 3 years. Salaries in the UK are significantly lower than in the USA, and yet, the cost of living there is outrageous....well, when comp...
  13. Nursing Informatics???

    Just wanted to let you know that you don't have to have an 'informatics' degree to break info the field, unless you are going for one of those roles that is specific for a nursing informatist. AS I have said in many other posts: there are dozens of ...
  14. Is there a shortage or glut of nurses in informatics?

    You're right! I quit photoshop when our school gave us a free sample of paint shop pro...photoshop was too much too handle for me! And with excel I stick to basic copy, paste, the function of adding, and some sorting :chuckle ...so yea, excel can ...
  15. Is there a shortage or glut of nurses in informatics?

    I would venture to answer your question with, yea IT experience is not really necessary, but it doesn't hurt to have it, and it really depends on the specific job you're going for; if you want to do programming for an application used clinically, the...