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Thanks perseus29! I'm currently looking at enrolling in a Health Information Management progam and I'm interested in Nursing Informatics. Thanks again.

Do you have to be a nurse to be or get into Informatics? Is there a career or education path for this? Just curious. Thanks.

Wow.. thanks for the great feedback. I've been giving nursing and other health related career fields such as dental Hygienists a lot of thought. After spending numereous hours reading posts on this site, I don't think it would be worth quitting my job and going to school full time for two years, while racking up a large school debt. Texas State University has a bachelors degree program online for Health Information Management, that is accredited by CAHIIM. I think I'll go that route. DebberJ, if you don't mind, I would like to contact you and ask you some more about coding. Thanks again everyone.

The problem is all the schools in my area are daytime only and they are full time.

I recently received my Associates of Science and I'm currently taking my last two pre-req's before applying for a Nursing program at one of several universities; but lately I've been having second thoughts, due to finances. I don't know how I can quit my current job and attend nursing school full time. So I started looking for other Health Care degrees that I could either attend in the evenings or online. Has anyone heard of HealthCare Information Management? www.ahima.org Does anybody think this is a worthwhile degree or is it just a catch-all like business administration? I've been trying to find salary ranges, but they seem to vary widely. Any thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks!!!!:)

I will be through with all my pre-req's this spring sememster and will apply for TWU. Do they allow laptops in the classroom and what about PDA's?

Hi everyone. I'm taking my pre-req classes at Cy-Fair. I'm not going to attempt trying to get into their ADN program. I'll have my assocaites along with introduction to Chemistry and Nutrition completed this spring semester and then I'll apply for TWU or UT. So far my GPA is 3.6. I'm hoping to bump that GPA up with my last three class and not have to re-take a class just to bump a "B" to an "A". It still amazes me how competitive it is to get into Nursing school. On a good note UT is building a new nursin school in Pearland. I'm not sure when it will be open. Best of luck!

Not a Nurse... YET, but working on it. I'll have my associates of science this spring. Let's see... 4.5yrs USAF (security police) 8.5yrs Federal Corrections Officer(worse job I've every had!), 7yrs to present working for Compaq/HP tech support. I love computers and technology, but all the jobs are going overseas or we're being replaced by H1B Visa workers, so it's time for another career change. A neighbor of mine, who is a nurse, suggested I look into it. The more I looked, the more I liked. I'm looking forward to becoming a nurse

I'm am soooo glad I found this forum. Sorry if the below is so long. I work in the IT field and have worked for Compaq/HP going on 7yrs. Relegated to a cubicle for 7yrs! I've been in a few different careers, with 4.5yrs in USAF, 8.5yrs as a Federal Corrections Officer and 7rs in IT. I'm now back in school and will apply for Nursing school in the spring. I'm burned out with IT. The jobs are all being shipped to India or other 3rd world countries. Trying to stay on top of the ever changing software/hardware and chasing after certifications that become obsolete as fast as you obtian them is crazy. It's a career where the age of 40 is considered over the hill. Corporate America is saying there isn't enough smart American's and therefore we need to import H1b Visa workers. I'm surrounded by Indians. Nice people, but you can't tell me with the thousands of IT people being laid off by Intel, IBM, HP and others that they can't find enough educated people to fill these postions. I've looked at trying different areas, made some changes, but I can see the writing on the wall. Most of the jobs I found were contract only and reqired a lot of travel or it meant taking a 20% or more pay cut. When I saw engineers with vast knowlege in VMS, Unix, Stoage, SAN's and other areas being laid off and replaced by H1b Visa workers, I knew it was time to jump ship. So I thought about a carreer change and started looking. A neighbor of mine happened to be a nurse and she suggested I try nursing. As a male, I never would have thought about this carreer field, but the more I looked into it the more I liked it. Here are the possibilites I can see in nursing and please let me know the other pros and cons. Longevity (you're not considered too old at the age of 40) Flexability Scalability Profitablity (I'm not going to have to worry about being replaced by an H1b Visa worker or have to worry about my job moving to India) Scrubs.... I get to wear scrubs! As a former Federal Correcions Officer.. I can take the verbal abuse, shift work and political butt kissing. It was the idea and knowledge that I was stuck in a rut and couldn't move up or out. Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I see endless possibilites in a nursing career.