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Do you know if this program is still going on Mijourney? Everything I looked at looks like the programs are over for now, you can still take the certification exam, but it looked like all the schools were done doing their programs.

My goal for the last 4 years was to make it into Informatics. I was a bedside nurse on a tele unit. There weren't any positions that were opening up in informatics at my hospital, but there was a management position that opened up, so I jumped at that. I was in that position for about 8 months before something opened up that I wanted to go for. I think that anything you can do to widen your experience is a good thing and can be spun in a good way. Just be careful, because at my hospital I can only switch position every 6 months. So if something opens up right away, if you've just taken a new position you may not be able to make that move.

I agree with the previous poster. Although I just started in Informatics within the last 6 months. But I have worked at this facility for 3 years. I became a superuser when we completely changed over from paper to electronic record. After finding out how much I enjoyed this type of work, I literally did everything I could to be part of the IT department. I came to every single meeting with IT to represent the floor nurses as well as my specialty (telemetry) I volunteered to help with other areas of the hospital when they went live. I volunteered to work extra to help train other employees. I worked side by side with the Director of Informatics to start refining some of the processes in place. I did that for almost a year and a half until a position that was a good fit for me opened up. But because I was so in tune with key people already, they actually contacted me before the job was even posted.

I had all my classes out of the way except microbiology which i took in the summer. i would definetly recommend not taking any other classes with your nursing classes. it makes it alot easier to just focus on nursing classes. my first semester i did clinicals at john know. second semester at western missouri and truman. third semester at childrens mercy and research belton. i thought reasearch belton was absolutely awful. it was really boring there but all the other sites were not bad. i thought truman was awesome. you definetly get to see and do alot there. good luck i hope everything goes good for you!!

I am a penn valley adn student. i am graduating in december. The first semester is tough just because it is a totally different environment. After that things get a little bit better because you. But i can not give you any estimate because it is totally different for everyone. It did not take me near as long to do clinical paperwork as it took some of my friends. Let me know if this was any help.