ikarus01

ikarus01 has 18 years experience and specializes in informatics for 10 years.

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1. Nurse informatics salary

   ikarus01 replied to Incognito Escondido's topic in Informatics

   Miami---From my past experience, which is about 5 years ago, hospitals in that area always were low balling in salary, even with experience. The other issue happening now is, obviously, a saturated market. I do consulting and only reason I have...

2. Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

   ikarus01 replied to ActiveHusky's topic in General Nursing

   My first place of employment (eons ago--mid 90's--- ?) had a legal nurse do an in service about writing proper nursing notes. Back then, there was no Cures Act that allowed patients to see notes, but the lesson we learned was, if we were writing note...

3. Thinking About Getting Masters in Informatics

   ikarus01 replied to kaybrianna0's topic in Informatics

   First thing, look at many of the posts here...a lot of people looking for preceptors. I myself don't understand the concept---you're paying thousands of dollars for a degree, and then you're on your own looking for a preceptor. Imagine going to nursi...

4. Getting my foot in the door

   ikarus01 replied to acmt27's topic in Informatics

   I have always been an advocate for trying to get a job with your current experience. It seems that a nursing informatics degree opens the doors to interviews, but it does not guaranteed a job. I should know since at one my former employers, when...

5. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

   ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in COVID

   do you know if your hospital reports the unvaccinated as the CDC does? If you took 1 dose of 2, for example, you fall under the unvaccinated category. Or do those stats consider 1 dose of 2 as vaccinated?

6. Advice: LPN considering informatics

   ikarus01 replied to BluePotion's topic in Informatics

   You don't need to get an RN to go into informatics; I have worked with CNA's and LPN's who are now analysts or trainers. Epic specialist---what specifically is your role with this job title? Are you doing elbow support? Training? The next m...

7. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

   ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in COVID

   I actually laughed at this because I had the same question in my brain. This could have just been written as, Some/a few vaccinated patients are winding up in the ICU. Future politician in the making.

8. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

   ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in COVID

   In the past 4 weeks, have had 2 family members who are boosterized with pfizer end up in the hospital with covid. One in her late 50's living in California, another one in her late 40's who lives in Florida. I just spoke to one last night and sh...

9. Have you worked with a GOAT in healthcare?

   ikarus01 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

   hahaha! Definitely not. But I still remember that shift so clearly because it really "shocked" me. That director always wore scrubs when I went to that floor. Don't think I ever saw another nursing director like that on the floors. Most were nicely d...

10. Have you worked with a GOAT in healthcare?

    ikarus01 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Back in 2004 or so, was working as an agency nurse, and would mainly get sent to an orthopedics floor where everybody was very unhelpful. One weekday, I was sent to a med surg floor. As soon as I step in, I'm told, you have an admission coming ...

11. Name title

    ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Education

    I have a degree in nursing and CS...been working in the field since early 2000's. I write my name as, John Doe I guess I'm doing it wrong! ?

12. 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Masters in Nursing Informatics

    ikarus01 replied to Lisa Brooks's topic in Informatics

    Been in the so call informatics field since 2005, started as a Surginet analyst, then switched over to become a consultant, then became physician provider support in epic, then epic analyst. For me personally, I want a job that gives me the ability t...

13. New NI Student - how to prepare for future work?

    ikarus01 replied to Enarra's topic in Informatics

    Most NI programs are....a bit lacking. If I were you, I would spent time learning SQL because no matter what vendor software you work with, reports are always a hot commodity. And even if you are not in charge of doing reports, requests will always c...

14. Is it important to have experience in different nursing units to become an informaticist?

    ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Informatics

    Plenty of old threads on this forum to answer as to what informaticists do. But if you have 10 years of med surg experience, didn't you ever document on computers? So the role of the informaticist is to roll those out. LIke right now..the covid19 ou...

15. Epic certification

    ikarus01 replied to sara skidmore's topic in Informatics

    So prior to the covid outbreak, the cost to get certified was 26k per certification. And I know because when you take a job as an epic analyst in some hospitals, they tell you that if they send you out to get certified and then you quit in less than ...