Am I making a mistake taking HIM?

Yue09 · Oct 10, 2020

I'm in the fall semester of Health Information Management now.

It's completely online at a CAIIAM accredited community college. I'm taking 18 hours and I work 40 hours a week.

Even if getting sleep or having a social life has been almost nonexistent I'm doing fantastic in my classes.

However, my heart was on getting into the library field and therefore I was going to go to graduate school to get MLIS and duel degree it with a certificate in Records Management.

Nevertheless, this virus made me rethink getting a degree in the humanities was not wise.

I mean I already have one financially useless degree(BA in Journalism) I don't really need another one.

But now I'm beginning to rethink this because quite frankly I don't like the health field.

I also don't like that four of these classes are about coding, one about medical terminology(in now), and one about Anatomy and Physiology.

I also hatttte that a math course is in this too.

Statistics.

I'm in that one now as well.

I'm doing good in all these science-heavy classes, and the math one, but I HATE them.

I thought this was supposed to be about electronic records not coding.

My natural inclinations are writing and english related things, but unfortunately they're always in low money fields.

Basically, my interest in this HIM degree was not like or love but to be financially secure.

If I stick with the HIM degree the only jobs that interest me with it are Release of Information.

So far I have zero interest in coding.

Also if I stick with HIM are these classes doable together for next semester.

A&P ( 6 hours)

Pathophysiology (4 hours)

ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding I (4 hours)

Also, I was freaking lied to by someone in this field who said math wasn't in it. What is Statistics then? History?

Also, I have to eventually take Healthcare Analytics and Reimbursement Methodologies that both also seem like freaking math to me.

Even the LPN program I was in a long while back had a 1-hour lecture on math, a test, and that was it.

So how is it that a program about record-keeping has more math in it then nursing?

Also, the AP and Path have given me some concern to. I'm good enough in science, but why am I feeling like I'm in Med school instead of a records program?