Must have tools for the Informatics Nurse

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Specializes in Progressive, Intermediate Care, and Stepdown.

As I have started to learn more about nurse informatics, I think it would be interesting know what tools, tips, tricks, books, journals, technology, resources, etc the experienced informatics nurse finds crucial for success in the field.

I think this information could help new or interested nurses to get more training and experience (like myself).

So, what do you find essential for your daily work in informatics?

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I am interested in knowing this as well.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Depends on what you do (?)

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Specializes in informatics for 10 years.

Tips and tricks...

Part of the job involves parsing through data, specially if a healthcare system is going from an older EMR to a newer EMR.

Knowing MS Access and being an MS excel "superuser" has saved me weeks of work and even gotten me jobs. So I'm happy that when I did my SQL class back in college, my teachers were great and I learned to love SQL. Once a system is live, there is no shortage of, can anybody create a report about this and that?

And tips...always, always be reading the software updates of a vendor.

Is like when windows releases a new version, they will release a lot of documentation about their update. Well, boring to read that. But if you are working with a specific software from a vendor, not a bad idea to see what's new with the new release. Not going to lie...hard as hell sometimes to get through reading this documentation, but again, you might look like a star when somebody says in a meeting, I wonder if we could do this and that, and then you realize, "oh my god...i just read that functionality on the latest release update."

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