Anyone Certified As An Epic Analyst?

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

I am going to the Epic Corp soon to start working on my certification for the Epic System. I have been working as an Epic Analyst/Trainer for a short time, and no one in our group has their certification yet. The agency I worked with was small, and they have recently been bought out by a large health system.

The new health system has offered to send us to WI. for the certification, and we should start in the next month or so. We have been told it is a four part process, but very little else.

Is there someone who has been thru the process, who could tell me more?

Thank you in advance for any light you can shed on this process.

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

Well, it looks like I will be going at the end of June, and I guess I will find out when I get there.

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

Well, I have now been thru the first of three training sessions, and I was totally impressed with Epic! The training on the fundamentals lasted for three days, and I had no trouble at all staying engaged...meaning not falling asleep.

The training is fast paced, and we had people there with no experience with Epic to those like myself who use Epic everyday. But it was still a great learning experience, since Epic used a more recent version of the application, with many new upgrades.

The trainers were excellent, and took time to answer all questions to everyone's satisfaction. Plenty of review, and practical hands on for each section taught.

Now I need to take a test on the training, do a project in Epic's training playground, and it's on to two more training sessions, and finally my cert. I plan on getting a certification in Clinical Docs, and IP, and except for flying back and forth, I am looking forward to it.

Anyone who is seeking to obtain cert at Epic, please feel free to contact me for more information. I stayed in Middleton, WI and it is a very clean, quiet town, only a few mins from Madison, and I know where the shopping is...:)!

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I have been offered the opportunity to take on the role of Nurse Informatics and will be sent to Wisconsin for Epic training if I accept the position. I wanted to find out more information as to what the job and training entails. I have been a bed-side nurse for 10years and love what I do. But I am starting to get bored and feeling unchallenged with the daily routine. Can you tell me what some of the pros and cons of the job entails? I don't want to leave the bed-side all together.

Thanks for any information you might give me.

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Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.

Greetings Piamia,

The best person(s) to ask these questions would probably be the hiring manager who interviewed you at Epic along with someone at Epic who is current in the role you interviewed for. I'm going to take an educated guess knowing that Epic is a HIS software vendors. Your role will probably have responsibililities of systems analysis, design and building once a Hospital, OutPt facility or Physicians Practice has purchased one or more Epic applications. You may be training analysts who work for the healthcare organization, training end users who will use the systems, performing system testing, assisting with process redesign, developing/designing training curriculum and or project management. As I wrote earlier the best source of information for exactly what a role entails are the hiring organization and the people/persons who have held the exact role for which you are interviewing for. See the Forum Board for additional quesitons you may want to ask during an interview. Additionally - in answer to whether or not you can continue your bedside nursing practice I would think that would depend on whether or not you can fit shift work into the hours and days the Epic position will require of you. Perhaps you can pick up shifts on the weekends?? Traditionally positons with HIS vendors are 9-5; M-F but that will depend on if the role requires you travel or not. Whether or not the travel is regional, national or international. Such a vendor based role in and of itself will not include hands on bedside nursing, may require you travel Su-Th, work remote, on call or are located onsite at the client's site/location. You also may be required to work off hours, on call and 12-16 hr shifts when a project is in full swing or during a Go Live.

Good Luck!

I wanted to find out more information as to what the job and training entails. Can you tell me what some of the pros and cons of the job entails? I don't want to leave the bed-side all together.

Thanks for any information you might give me.

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I have a Question....HOW DOES a nurse that is interested in IS get trained and certified, say in Epic. Our hospital bought it and we are using it in the clinic totally with no paper charting anymore. They say we are going live for inpatient and the whole hospital this summer.

I've always wanted to go into IS and I LOVE the travel part of it as well as the training and teaching part of it. I worked for Meditec for a few months in 2000 when they had the big Y2K thing going on. I taught nurses in a Vet's Home on making care plans and charting. I loved it. Great money as well. Can anyone tell me how I'd get certified on my own if I wanted to pay for my own training OR what is the best way to transistion into this FROM BEDSIDE nursing. I've been a nurse for 26 yrs. and I am working in L & D right now.

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Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.

Peggy to my knowledge in order to obtain certification in a particular vendor's product (like Epic) you would need to be employeed by an organization that is willing to pay for and send you for the training. Hospitals, and other healthcare organizatins send their project managers, analysts, and other's you have roles within the organization currently building, testing or in some way working with or planning to work with the vendor product. I have never heard of an independent clinician or person obtaining Epic certification............but hey you may be the first. Be proactive and contact Epic directly and give it your best shot! As my Grandmother use to say Nothing beats a failure but A TRY!

To my knowledge neither Meditech, Cerner, Eclypsys or McKesson offer "certification" in any of their clinical applications.

Good Luck!

I have a Question....HOW DOES a nurse that is interested in IS get trained and certified, say in Epic. Our hospital bought it and we are using it in the clinic totally with no paper charting anymore. They say we are going live for inpatient and the whole hospital this summer.

I've always wanted to go into IS and I LOVE the travel part of it as well as the training and teaching part of it. I worked for Meditec for a few months in 2000 when they had the big Y2K thing going on. I taught nurses in a Vet's Home on making care plans and charting. I loved it. Great money as well. Can anyone tell me how I'd get certified on my own if I wanted to pay for my own training OR what is the best way to transistion into this FROM BEDSIDE nursing. I've been a nurse for 26 yrs. and I am working in L & D right now.

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

Well I have finally gained certification as an ASAP ED Dept Epic Analyst, and it was a very difficult path for me. But one more exam to pass and I am will have my second certification as an Epic Ambulatory Analyst, and I am loving every day I work.

Currently working on the ASAP ED Build team in preparation of our Part Two Go Live. I am learning something new each day, and no two days are alike, which suits me just fine!

As Angela stated, in order to become Epic Certified in an application developed by Epic, you have to be working for an employer who has Epic, or is installing Epic. Even if you take all of the classes and stop working for an employer before you complete your certification, you can not continue until you are with an employer who has bought the software from Epic.

Any grades you obtain while working toward the certification are only good for one year, and you must maintain the certification by taking NVT (New Version Training) each year, which amounts to downloading them from the Epic website, and submitting them for grading to Epic.

You are given a certificate of your initial certification and then each year they send you an embossed emblem to attach to the certificate, showing that you are up to date.

Good Luck!

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Specializes in student; help!.

I'm not/wasn't an analyst, but I did do abstracting in EPIC and thought it was a great product. Apparently our facility led them to add LOTS of extras to other places' packages. Woo!

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What is nursing informatics? How do you get a job in that field? What are required who gives the training? Thanks

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Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.

Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Some Informatics nurses got their starts by being in the right place at the right time, by on the job experience, by taking on a newly created role, etc.

Requirements vary depending upon the specific position. At minimum you need to have foundational experience as a nurse, the ability to be a change agent and have demonstrated skills as a problem solver outside. Do an Internet search and learn about the role. Join your local Nursing Informatics group and network and learn about this specialty.

Good Luck!

What is nursing informatics? How do you get a job in that field? What are required who gives the training? Thanks
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Well, I have now been thru the first of three training sessions, and I was totally impressed with Epic! The training on the fundamentals lasted for three days, and I had no trouble at all staying engaged...meaning not falling asleep.

The training is fast paced, and we had people there with no experience with Epic to those like myself who use Epic everyday. But it was still a great learning experience, since Epic used a more recent version of the application, with many new upgrades.

The trainers were excellent, and took time to answer all questions to everyone's satisfaction. Plenty of review, and practical hands on for each section taught.

Now I need to take a test on the training, do a project in Epic's training playground, and it's on to two more training sessions, and finally my cert. I plan on getting a certification in Clinical Docs, and IP, and except for flying back and forth, I am looking forward to it.

Anyone who is seeking to obtain cert at Epic, please feel free to contact me for more information. I stayed in Middleton, WI and it is a very clean, quiet town, only a few mins from Madison, and I know where the shopping is...:)!

Hi,

I am interested in getting Epic certified. I understand from another forum that one either has to be employed by Epic or work for a hospital that uses Epic to get trained. Have you heard anything different?

Thanks you!

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