You know your'e an Informaticist when.......

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN INFORMATICS NURSE WHEN ……..


1. You initially flinched at the use of all upper case letters (considered shouting) in the title above

2. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

3.You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years and know (via review of audit trails) which users’ PCs in-house have been playing the on-line version of the game.

4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

5. You e-mail the person who works at the desk/cubical/office next to you.

6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

7. You pull up in your own driveway and use your Blackberry, Smartphone or PDA to call to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

8. You wonder why every commercial on television does not have a web site at the bottom of the screen.

10. Leaving the house without your cell phone and or laptop, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get them.

11. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your
coffee.

12. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
: )

13. You can text with the best of them, have a "BFF"……… or know what those letters stands for.

14. Your definition of “a critical situation” has changed from one dealing with the decline in a patient’s physiological status to being unable to access ANY module of your HIS.

15. "Downtime" for you means additional work and inconvience.

16. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this l ist.

17. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a
#9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE ROTFL at yourself.