Nursing Infomatics

While not in-depth, an interesting look at where an informatics career might be headed:

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Features/...Come-From.aspx

The scary part -- from someone who has much more training and experience and scars -- is this:
""I believe that a three- to six-month immersion for health care or experienced IT workers in informatics could give them the grounding necessary to meet the health IT goals of the stimulus package," Hersh said." [Bill Hersh, chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University's School of Medicine]

That may meet the stimulus goals -- getting people employed -- but it just does not seem like enough training to fully implement an EHR for physician practices or hospitals that do not currently have one. As I said in a prior posting, there will be plenty of work for those who can clean up the mess after the initial wave.

I am going to be a new RN grad in May and would like to work as a Nurse Infomaticist. Does this require further training or does it just depend on the employer?

You'll need some clinical background. But it depends on the employer, and also on where you are.

Walmart has no plans to start creating HISs.
As a matter of fact the systems/vendor - eClincialWorks, mentioned in this article- is the vendor for both New York city's Primary Care Information Project and the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative.
Both two of the successful initiatives to help primary care practioners adopt EHRs.

Walmart would just be the ........... coordinator of software, hardware and implementation services.

Never underestimate Wal-Mart. Their IT systems are always the latest and greatest.