acmt27 BSN, RN

Have you found out yet?? It's my understanding that it's rare to fail at 75 questions. Since it's looking for you to hold at a minimum competency level, most who are below the level get more than 75 to determine whether they can hit the level.

Completely agree. As long as you're able to get by on the pay cut, your parents should support your mental health above all else.

I joined a big nursing informatics group on facebook (private group called 'Nursing Informatics') with over 8000 members. The discussions there have been super helpful. From what I've gathered, experience is more likely to get you a job in informatic...

No problem. I have even worked at hospitals that publicly announced how many COVID patients were admitted daily.

Nothing confidential about your response. No specific patients were mentioned. No HIPPA violation there.

Interesting information, I have considered trying to get my foot in the door of the informatics/analyst world. Do you think the current pay cuts/hiring freezes in the field are concerning for the future of nursing informatics?

I have been looking into nursing informatics as a career. I'm currently in an outpatient clinic after working 4 years bedside on various floors. If I have learned anything since switching, it's that I want to be even farther removed from patient care...

I have been considering getting into nursing informatics. I'm thinking along the path of a masters in nursing informatics. My question is, would the best path be to jump right into a masters program while working my current ambulatory clinic job, and...

Thanks for the advice! I appreciate the insight into the candidates. I guess my only concern is that I have only been at my current job ~7 months. I did 4 years on the floor, between med surg, tele, PCU, and ICU. I had to get away from the bedside du...

I did UWorld back when I was preparing for the NCLEX. I remember getting average UWorld scores, that gave me somewhere in the mid chance passing range (don't remember exactly but I don't think I did as well as you). I was so nervous and didn't even f...

I used UWorld and passed first try in 75 questions. It's been a couple years so it's hard to remember but I think I was getting average scores on the UWorld questions. Average enough to be very nervous that I should have been doing better on the ques...

My situation a year ago was almost exactly like yours- a year and a half on a tele unit, working nights. I absolutely hated nights but day nurses on tele were always swamped so I put up with the disruption to my circadian rhythm. I've always wanted t...

I float around the ICUs at my hospital, but mostly stick to our SICU and MICU. We are a level I trauma center in a large urban area. We also have a CCU and PCU, 10 beds for each unit. We are a very trauma heavy hospital so even when I'm in the MICU I...

At my hospital, they use pain parameters for IV pain meds (ex: fentanyl 50mcg q1h PRN for pain 7-10). If I rated the pt's pain as a 3 and gave that med, I'd be flagged by pharmacy. That's crazy that they expect you to give IV for a pain of 3.

Long post but skip to the last paragraph for the main jist of my issues. I have been considering quitting my current position for a while now (like, since before COVID was a thing in every hospital). I work in telemetry, where we are chronically unde...

It all completely depends on where you end up. I have friends who can't stand some of their coworkers, don't feel welcomed on their floor, or are put off by hearing nurses gossip about other nurses. But I have had an incredible experience in my first...

I used UWorld. The explanations they gave for every question were phenomenal. They also rationalized why the incorrect options were incorrect, which I thought would be confusing but made total sense and was a massive help in developing better critica...

I'm in sort of the same boat! Trying to switch from tele to ICU, I hate the monotony of a non critical floor and am most excited and focused in the few times where our floor is in an emergent situation. I would totally say to go for it but I don't th...

Ditto to the above comment. I went to Mizzou's nursing school and had taken a few different AP classes. They counted as credit but did not factor into my GPA (which was a bummer because they would've raised my GPA ?‍♀️)

I also passed in 75, and would HIGHLY recommend the app/website UWorld. There's different subscription options so you can choose from different size banks of mock exams and questions that are broken down into categories such as psych, OB, etc. What I...