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  1. Nursing Informatics CEU's

    Also the summer institute in nursing informatics at the University of Maryland provides a webcast with a significant amount of potential CEUs in July. You can watch the recorded web programs at a time convenient to you. You can find it at http://nu...
  2. Starting informatics career advice

    Supermom - congratulations on your new position. I'm not sure what type of employer you have. You mention a company, so I perhaps can infer that you work for a vendor or other IT company. I work for a healthcare IT vendor and a few suggestions to ...
  3. SINI - Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics

    I've done the web cast for 2 years now. It is very useful. I've been able to get the CEUs, but I had to contact them directly to request them. They don't necessarily come automatic. If it is critical to get CEUs, I would suggest contacting them d...
  4. Please help me to understand

    As Angela as said, you don't need a CIS or IS or CS degree to go into nursing informatics. You do need clinical experience. If you happen to have a technical degree or are currently working on one, then it can be a career advantage for many, but n...
  5. Where to begin??

    Try http://www.amia.org/working/ni/education/education.html for a list of nursing informatics programs. You will need to have some clinical practice for informatics jobs. There is a lot of info in this bulletin board - some old and new that can p...
  6. Please help me to understand

    Congratulations perseus. As a nurse with a CS degree, I know where you are coming from. I actual had an IT head hunter who knew I was a nurse, asking me if I could do programming. This with the CS degree staring them in the face on my resume. So...
  7. Please help me to understand

    The health care informatics field depends heavily on databases such as SQL server and oracle. I guess the main question is whether you want to focus on the nursing or focus on the computer science. Informatic nurses that work in hospitals and for v...
  8. Please help me to understand

    Jascraft - what made you decide to get the LPN in the first place? What type of computer background do you have? Do you have any programming experience. People in the healthcare informatics area come from two directions. They are either clinician...
  9. Please help me to understand

    What's your first priority? To be a nurse or to be a computer programmer? There are jobs that mix both in nursing and technical positions.
  10. Software_Applications

    maty12 I don't know if this would be enough to help you or not. Sometimes you can check the various vendor sites. Many of them have screen shots of their products if you search around enough. However, they won't show the interactions of the scr...
  11. Anyone know anything about HL7 ?

    check out http://www.hl7.org for full information
  12. Advice

    It is hard to tell from your message whether you looking at nursing informatics from a nursing perspective or from an informatics perspective. There are two paths that people can take to get into health care informatics. One is the clinical path: ...
  13. BS Comp Sci vs BS Info Tech?

    Linda A good source of information would be the HIMSS survey they did this past Feb on nurses in nursing informatics. It will tell you salaries, education, and roles. Heres a link for it. http://www.himss.org/content/files/nursing_info_survey2004...
  14. Career Advice

    Senimoni - What a nurse with a nursing informatics background does in IT may be different than what an regular IT person does. There is some overlap in job responsibilities, particularly in the areas of system analysis and design and project managem...
  15. Informatics

    MsDeeva. I can not be sure exactly what they are looking for and what the position involves as I am not familar with the add or IDX. I would assume that it would prefer informatics experience because it is a CPOE system. It is a position that req...