ME: Susan, was a programmer prior to returning to school to become a nurse, currently an LPN and GN, waiting to have my ASN conferred and take the NCLEX-RN.
I work in a rural CAH. Have a little better than a year in LTC and med/surg and hated the floor. I loved patients, had no patience with the paperwork and administration and scapegoating nonsense of the floor.
I really lucked into a great job. I can talk clinical, English, and geek interchangeably, and have managed to convince the nurses that I really am there to advocate for them. And I do.
I too have lurked in the background of AllNurses for a long time. I am coming out also!
I worked as a staff OB RN for 25 years, until our department was going to implement Centricity Perinatal. I was asked to consider taking the plunge by my supervisor as the Clinical Perinatal Appilcation Specialist. I knew I was ready for an adventure and the delight of professional growth. So I studied up on Access and Excel. There were days I felt overwhelmed with the complexity of the build and implementation. But...I am very happy to report that the Staff on my unit have been documenting on the views I built for over a year now! I never have a boring day! What a delight this entire adventure was.
Now the OR is asking if I will take thier system (PICIS) under my belt and modify it for thier needs.
Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.
WELCOME Kelly Lynn,
Thanks for "coming out"
I too have lurked in the background of AllNurses for a long time. I am coming out also!
I worked as a staff OB RN for 25 years, until our department was going to implement Centricity Perinatal. I was asked to consider taking the plunge by my supervisor as the Clinical Perinatal Appilcation Specialist. I knew I was ready for an adventure and the delight of professional growth. So I studied up on Access and Excel. There were days I felt overwhelmed with the complexity of the build and implementation. But...I am very happy to report that the Staff on my unit have been documenting on the views I built for over a year now! I never have a boring day! What a delight this entire adventure was.
Now the OR is asking if I will take thier system (PICIS) under my belt and modify it for thier needs.
Still a floor nurse, but definitely on the geeky side. I even have a tee shirt that says "I
And our ten year old's middle name is Robert after Robert Heinlein. Our two year old's middle name was almost Douglas after Douglas Adams, but we named him after family members instead. When my hubby and I first started dating as teenagers, we read the entirety of the Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy" to each other out loud.
I took a science fiction as literature class in college for fun...I was one of only three women in the class, but probably tied with the prof and just two other students for the most well read. It was one of the most enjoyable classes I've ever taken, even if we did have to write a two to three page paper every week for the entire semester.
My family got our first computer when I was in kindergarden, way back in the early 80's. So I'm totally comfortable with them.
Our facility is getting ready to go live with EPIC and I was chosen to be a super user, and couldn't be more excited about it. I was apprehensive at first, but after just one class am a convert. My only questions have been "why did this take so long to get to?" and "why can't we do more with it...lets get apps to do XYZ as well as 123!" I just hope I'm able to maintain that level of enthusiam through the go live process.
Im a Clinical Systems Analyst for a large healthcare organization here in Wisconsin. We work on Epic, and Im actually currently getitng my certification in EpicCare Ambulatory.
I am an RN/BSN, and worked as an oncology/chemotherapy nurse in the hospital, and then as an OB Triage nurse in the clinic, before switching to the Epic team. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Ive been doing this for about a year now, and can not imagine going back to patient care. As much as I loved the patients, the biggest thing that weighed on me was, 'what if I did something wrong that could harm the patient'. Ive worked with the Epic System for 4 years, before joining the team, so I have a lot of experience as an end user which has helped a lot.
Im going back to school to get my Masters in Healthcare Informatics. Was going to start this fall, but my husband just finished law school, and we are moving for his job then. Also we have a five year old little boy:)
I saw a tshirt at Walmart the other day that says "Talk Nerd to Me" and I thought it was perfect! I have a husband and son who are nerdy as heck! (which I love:))
Glad to see other Nurses who work in this field. Somtimes its hard, because my other team members doing think clinically and that can be a big barrier when trying to do this job!:)
Wow, it's great to meet some fellow geeks in health care :) !!!
Me: Kim. a software engineer for 12+ years. Prior to that, I worked at a convalescent hospital while in high school, as a medical assistant while in college, and had completed all the nursing prerequisites, but fell in love with programming and changed majors. I still love programming and all stuff geekish, but I wanted to get back into health care.
In 2008, I got my RN and landed a great job in a PACU at a large county hospital. I enjoy the satisfaction of being able to help pts that come to the recovery room in pain, cold, disoriented, etc.... and send them out comfortable, warm, and relieved.
On a side note: as a programmer, I have spent a considerable amount of time designing and implementing user interfaces, so often find myself biased in usability aspects of the software/tools. I am surprised by some of the applications I have encountered. Some of these applications have remarkably poor/inadequate user interfaces. It's no wonder very few want to use these tools for work related tasks - it can be too time consuming/frustrating/cumbersome. It would be great to be involved, somehow (planning, design, development, whatever), so that the tools can be more user-friendly.
Wow, it's great to meet some fellow geeks in health care :) !!!
Me: Kim. a software engineer for 12+ years. Prior to that, I worked at a convalescent hospital while in high school, as a medical assistant while in college, and had completed all the nursing prerequisites, but fell in love with programming and changed majors. I still love programming and all stuff geekish, but I wanted to get back into health care.
In 2008, I got my RN and landed a great job in a PACU at a large county hospital. I enjoy the satisfaction of being able to help pts that come to the recovery room in pain, cold, disoriented, etc.... and send them out comfortable, warm, and relieved.
On a side note: as a programmer, I have spent a considerable amount of time designing and implementing user interfaces, so often find myself biased in usability aspects of the software/tools. I am surprised by some of the applications I have encountered. Some of these applications have remarkably poor/inadequate user interfaces. It's no wonder very few want to use these tools for work related tasks - it can be too time consuming/frustrating/cumbersome. It would be great to be involved, somehow (planning, design, development, whatever), so that the tools can be more user-friendly.
Hello everyone and nice to see Nursing Informaticists. I'm glad that we have allnurses to vent and rattle about our passion and frustrations with our job.
Me: Been a nurse for >15 years with strong Critical Care background. Got my MS in Administrative Studies in Nursing and right before i finished school when i was choosing my electives, i stumbled to a course called Health Care data, not my first choice as elective byt it is the only elective course available online. I ended up loving this course and took MS in Healthcare Informatics.
I have worked as a system analyst specicfically for Cerner: First Net, PowerNotes. I am currently a Nursing Informatics Specialist in a Pediatric Hospital. Been live with Meditech C/S e-mAR and Status Board. Will be starting with Clinical Documentation (PCS) projected to go-live next Summer 2010. Our peri-op area uses PICIS.
I would love to network and share the pains and success of Meditech. I consider myself novice with Meditech functionalities so I would appreaciate feedback from the group.
Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.
Welcome DidooeeRN,
Thanks for sharing your story. Please make yourself at home, look around the NI Forum, read posts, contribute and if you need anything, just halla!
I've worked with MT C/S in the past and currently am implementing phase II of EDM, support PCS, BMV and ORM, and am gearing up for PCM and CPOE!
Shoot me now!!!
Hello everyone and nice to see Nursing Informaticists. I'm glad that we have allnurses to vent and rattle about our passion and frustrations with our job.
Me: Been a nurse for >15 years with strong Critical Care background. Got my MS in Administrative Studies in Nursing and right before i finished school when i was choosing my electives, i stumbled to a course called Health Care data, not my first choice as elective byt it is the only elective course available online. I ended up loving this course and took MS in Healthcare Informatics.
I have worked as a system analyst specicfically for Cerner: First Net, PowerNotes. I am currently a Nursing Informatics Specialist in a Pediatric Hospital. Been live with Meditech C/S e-mAR and Status Board. Will be starting with Clinical Documentation (PCS) projected to go-live next Summer 2010. Our peri-op area uses PICIS.
I would love to network and share the pains and success of Meditech. I consider myself novice with Meditech functionalities so I would appreaciate feedback from the group.
Glad to know that you are in the Meditech C/S Wagon. I will be in touch with you as we start our build on PCS. I'm curious, what is Phase 2 of EDM? Our ED has been live with EDM since we were in Magic platform.
Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology.
This organization's methodology was to roll out EDM in a "phase" approach.
Phase I - going LIVE with just the Trackers and Triage documentation - everything else still on paper. Phase II being the rest of nursing documentation, Phase III will be ED physician documentation. Combining ED physician documentation with pdoc for the Hospitalists on the inpt side and the Outpt Oncologists. They've been live with PCS and BMV for more 5 years.
Angela,
Glad to know that you are in the Meditech C/S Wagon. I will be in touch with you as we start our build on PCS. I'm curious, what is Phase 2 of EDM? Our ED has been live with EDM since we were in Magic platform.
KellyLynn
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I too have lurked in the background of AllNurses for a long time. I am coming out also!
I worked as a staff OB RN for 25 years, until our department was going to implement Centricity Perinatal. I was asked to consider taking the plunge by my supervisor as the Clinical Perinatal Appilcation Specialist. I knew I was ready for an adventure and the delight of professional growth. So I studied up on Access and Excel. There were days I felt overwhelmed with the complexity of the build and implementation. But...I am very happy to report that the Staff on my unit have been documenting on the views I built for over a year now! I never have a boring day! What a delight this entire adventure was.
Now the OR is asking if I will take thier system (PICIS) under my belt and modify it for thier needs.
Sincerely,
Kelly Lynn