Debbie Gring

Debbie Gring specializes in Med-Surg, Nursing Informatics.

Latest Activity

1. "Clinical Systems Analyst" interview

   Debbie Gring replied to VT2010's topic in Informatics

   Hello! I am a clinical systems analyst, but in a hospital setting. One hospital (critical access) system. We also have owned practices/clinics and a nursing home. I do not travel for this position, but I do know of others in multi hospital system...

2. Clinical systems analyst vs informatics

   Debbie Gring replied to trein's topic in Informatics

   I am an RN (Diploma) with 40 years experience. The past 12 years in the informatics field. The rest of the time I was on a Med/Surg unit and then a VIP unit. I got into informatics because my then hospital was changing HIS vendors. I worked with ...

3. Who do you report to? (question for course assignment)

   Debbie Gring replied to beezcorner's topic in Informatics

   Hello! I began Informatics in 2001 with a new HIS at our hospital. At that time I reported to my unit manager/VP of nursing along with the IT project manager. After our go live I stayed on and at that time directly reported to the VP of nursing. ...

4. Is 'Nursing Informatics' really a 'Nursing' specialty?

   Debbie Gring replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Informatics

   All I can say is what a dialogue and I totally disagree with MSN Nursing Management person. When I first entered nursing informatics in 2001 I was bombarded with others who were building their portion of our new HIS at that facility telling me that ...

5. Wants little human interaction- Is this the job for me?

   Debbie Gring replied to krnpynmlr's topic in Informatics

   Question for your, are you contemplating going into Nursing Informatics or a more technical type role? I've been in Nursing Informatics since 2001. I have times of minimal contact and times of lots of contact with other people. The days of minima...

6. Am I too old?? 47 yo- 20 yrs exp'd RN and Informatics

   Debbie Gring replied to fostercatmom's topic in Informatics

   I was 48/9 when the hospital I was working at implimented a new whole house systme. I was chosen to be on the three co-ordinators for order management. The rest is history. I stayed on at that job (in Ohio) and last year at the age of 58 after wor...

7. It's a new day!

   Debbie Gring replied to drgnflydggr's topic in Informatics

   Congratulations and do let us know how it all goes! Tell us more!

8. Who's your daddy? NI Supervision?

   Debbie Gring replied to muzzy's topic in Informatics

   good morning! i have reported over the past 10 years to both sides of the fence. i've reported to vp of nursing, then when she had too many direct reports to the director of education (also in nursing department). then with the thought we were going...

9. Dilemma

   Debbie Gring replied to NewDeb07's topic in Informatics

   Hey Deb! I think you should get some nursing experience before you get into NI. You already have the IT background, getting some clinical background will give you a whole new perspective from the IT side! What about even a part time nursing job? ...

10. Want to get into NI as soon as I can!

    Debbie Gring replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in Informatics

    [quote=matthew_rn;5172401 the hardest challenge and peev is the silo effect. the silo effect is what we are experiencing with our implimentation now matthew. we are moving from a legacy system to a new one, and the installers all have their own mod...

11. Want to get into NI as soon as I can!

    Debbie Gring replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in Informatics

    good morning cara! [color=#483d8b]i am a diploma grad from many years ago (1973!) i worked at my previous facility for many years, the last 10 years of which i was able to get into the informatics arena. that facility was adopting a house wide his a...

12. Nursing home work helpful or harmful?

    Debbie Gring replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in Informatics

    Hi Cara, While I am not certain, I would say that no your current position does not hinder you at all. The current hospital I work at has a nursing home affilitated with it, they just went live with a specialized nursing home system that addresses t...

13. Your Input is Needed

    Debbie Gring replied to rninformatics's topic in Informatics

    angela, i haven't been getting onto the site a whole lot the past few months as i have been moving from nw ohio to ne vermont and into a new position at a new hospital after retiring from the old position! i hope to get onsite more and would love to...

14. New technology is always hard

    Debbie Gring replied to rninformatics's topic in Informatics

    loved it! we had a build session this week for mckesson ccs module and the last day just before closing, i played this for the group. they loved it! really helped the brain drain feeling too and ended a very productive and positive day on a good no...

15. Anyone who has used McKesson?

    Debbie Gring replied to leekun2010's topic in Informatics

    :) hi! we are in the build stage as well. we just started having classes in january (well financials started before then) clinicals pretty much started then. we are doing om, scheduling, financials, cpoe, ccs, pharmacy, bcma all in one big swoop! o...