Re: Can new RN grads start in Informatics?
So you only have 6 weeks worth of clinical practice experience as a new graduate, but you have a "computer background", a Bachelors degree in CS, "an almost completed Masters degree" in IS" and you want to know if its possible as a new grad to get hired working for a hospital's information systems dept with minimal RN experience?
Sure anything is possible and it all depends on what the IT/IS hiring manager is looking for.
Ideally in order to be a good Informaticist you need a solid foundation as an experienced clinician,you need to know how healthcare works and how nursing and medicine are practiced. Ideally you need a certain amount of credibility (which comes with being an experienced clinician yourself) in order to lead clinical users. You need to be able to speak their language along with interpreting and translating IS/IT to them.
A degree in CS or IS is not exactly the same as a degree in Informatics, Clinical Informatics or Healthcare IS/IT.
Nursing Informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate date, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing pratice. The goal of NI is to improve patient care and nursing practice.
Contact that hospitals IT/IS department that you were a new orientee at and inquire if they would be interested in someone with your CS/IS background who had just graduated from Nursing school. Again as I wrote above, they
may snatch you up or they may tell to come back when you have more clinical experience..........it all depends.
Do check this Forum as there are numerous posts on this subject.
Good Luck!
Originally Posted by Nursing_chick 
Forgive me if this has already been asked, but I haven't be able to see any post on this question ...
I am a new grad nurse that graduated back in December 2008, I took an ICU position and only lasted 6 weeks (horrible orientation - promised a bunch of training, then wasn't given training that was needed & was terminated b/c they felt I needed more med/surg exp) ... that being said ... I come from a very solid computer background. My bachelor's is in Computer Science and I have an almost completed Master's degree in Information Systems. Is it possible as a new grad to get hired working for hospital systems with minimal RN experience? I want to be a bedside nurse, but few hospitals around the area are hiring new grads at all, I thought perhaps I needed to fall back on my prior degree. Also, how do does one get the experience as an EPIC trainer?
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