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1. I dread going to work- not a new grad. Has this happened to anyone else?

   Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

   Curious1alwys- I constantly fantasize about going back to waitressing/bartending, being a dog-walker, ANYTHING but what I'm doing now sounds like a relief from the stress for a while. And you're not a wuss (although sometimes I feel that way when I s...

2. I dread going to work- not a new grad. Has this happened to anyone else?

   Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, thanks everyone for your support and encouragement! While it's good to know I'm not alone, I'm sad that this is what nursing can do to so many people like me and many others here who are clinically strong, have a desire to help people, but get b...

3. I dread going to work- not a new grad. Has this happened to anyone else?

   Ativan posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been a nurse for about 4.5 years. During the past year or so, I've started to dread waking up in the morning and going to work, so much so that I can barely sleep the night before without taking Xanax. The anxiety even creeps into my days off, a...

4. Inpatient Care Plans/Education documentation working well?

   Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Education

   Thanks everyone for your feedback! Integrated into the regular documentation and automatically generated care plans seem like the way to go! Our system (Epic) requires the RN to remember to go to a completely separate module to document care plans an...

5. Inpatient Care Plans/Education documentation working well?

   Ativan posted a topic in Education

   We need to streamline and improve compliance with documentation on care plans & patient education at my hospital. Does anyone working inpatient think their system of documenting on Care Plans & Patient Education is working well? As in: nurses...

6. First RN job!! Need some tips please!

   Ativan replied to vil2290's topic in New Nurse

   Basically, you need to learn to edit and cut stuff out to get to just what's important. Then when you're caught up after lunch (theoretically), you can dig deeper into the notes, chart your care plans, spend more time chatting with the patient, etc. ...

7. Do you miss patient care?

   Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Informatics

   Good distinction, I guess that's probably true. If only there were a way to have it all!

8. Are there specialties in healthcare informatics?

   Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Informatics

   Thanks ArmyRN789. What is a Nurse Methods Analyst and how is it different from an informatics nurse?

9. Why become an RN to do computer work?

   Ativan replied to Wayne47's topic in Informatics

   I actually have the opposite question, and I don't want it to seem judgmental, I'm genuinely curious. Why would someone with an IT or computer science background go to nursing school to become an RN, then work in an informatics role? It seems to me l...

10. Are there specialties in healthcare informatics?

    Ativan posted a topic in Informatics

    I know there must be sub-specialties in nursing/healthcare informatics, but I can't find much information about it. The main specialty I've encountered is the type of nurse that focuses on training and education of end users as opposed to the nurses ...

11. Gaining experience without hospital's support

    Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Informatics

    \gypsyd8, don't give up! That's one person's opinion, and if he really said that your MSN is "useless," he sounds pretty untactful and overly confident. He might know what is valued by him in that organization, but not in all organizations for all ti...

12. Are you good at charting in "real time?"

    Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of great responses, thanks everyone! It's interesting that there is a big split between nurses who think charting at the bedside is the fastest and those that are against it (either because it's distressing to the patient or takes too much time)...

13. Do you miss patient care?

    Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Informatics

    Thanks for your response! It sounds like 100% of the informatics nurses I've asked about this are considering a return to the floor. But then again, 100% of the floor nurses I talk to are trying to get off the floor, so maybe it's a "grass is greener...

14. Gaining experience without hospital's support

    Ativan replied to Ativan's topic in Informatics

    Thanks everyone for all the great responses so far! I have two additional, but related questions (and updates): 1) I did make some progress towards becoming a Super User! However, I'm struggling to find resources to learn more about advanced features...

15. Are you good at charting in "real time?"

    Ativan posted a topic in General Nursing

    Are you good at charting/documenting in "real time," that is getting your assessments and vitals charted close to the time you actually do them instead of catching up with charting hours later at the nursing station? Any tips for how to do this succe...