I applied for an NI position a few months ago that has opened up within my facility. Here is my dilema and background. I am a nurse with an ASN degree, 8 classes short of a BSN (in which I am currently pursuing).
I have been a nurse since 2008 working in a variety of clinical settings. Neuro/Trauma for 2 yrs at another location and Float Pool/ICU at the current. I have had the ability to float throughout the current hospital in all acute/long term/clinic settings so I am very familiar with all of our computer applications and am able to apply them in all clinical settings.
We have a large variety of computer applications that we utilize in different areas. Ive also created and provided numerous examples in the interview/post interview emails of tasks and projects I have accomplished for the facility that we will use officially and satff members have used unofficially within the clinical setting. (For example I created a flow sheet from a blank word document that is to be utilized hospital wide within our facility for increased/more accurate documentation purposes for the safe practices of our patients). I also have 6 years working under my father as an assistant manager for the hotel he owned completing multiple proposals, accounting functions and a variety of other tasks, so I am very very familiar with word, excel, powerpoint, and quickbooks.
My husband also owns his own company in which I have done many of the same accounting functions, created proposals/bids for. I can provide my resume and emails sent. Throughout my panel interview and post interview they stated they loved my enthusiam, clinical experience, and was looking for someone who had the self motivation as I expressed. A few weeks later I recieved an email stating although they appreciate my enthusiam they wanted to yield a larger pool of applicants and opened the position to the public but would keep my application. The position posted, closed and had been 1 month so I sent another follow up letter requesting an update when she was available. A month later she sent an email saying, "we did go external to try to yield some candidates with educational background in informatics." Not a definitive yes or no.
The person who had been in the position prior was reassigned to another position unrelated to NI. The only information I have on him was that he had a previous degree in IT and only 6 months of clinical nursing experience. He told numerous people that "they kept placing more tasks for him to complete that he could not handle." Which I know maybe irrelevant, however I need advice as to where to continue on from here.
I am also an individual who is very known amongst my peers and coworkers as being someone who is familiar with computers and am sought after for questions that I expressed throughout the interview. I need help. I don't have what she maybe looking for on a physical piece of paper but I am very well qualified and am not sure what to do next.
