BelleP

Congratulations!!! I heard about Meditech being a bit "unwieldy" I guess but that is from an end user's perspective. Good luck!

JUST got hired today! My start date is on October 20th and I am so excited. MSN next year is the plan. Yes I would love to be part of this group! It took me a year of patience and persistence but I finally landed the position of Clinical Applications Analyst. I am soooo happy. I know the hospital well and the team I will be part of is a good one.

Count me in! I am a floor nurse but hoping to transition to NI. Very difficult in my rural area but I am trying not to lose hope. I have participated in a GoLive at my current facility as a credentialed trainer and I am aiming for a Clinical Nurse Analyst position at my old workplace. I would love to network and compare notes.

I always come in early so I have time to get ready before report. We just switched over to a new system so we had to get acclimated a bit to workflow adjustments. I generally look up meds, h&p's, vs, orders, labs, progress notes and any significant events during the previous shift. Sometimes I do them all, and sometimes I look these up right before I go into the patient's rooms (except meds). Then bedside report from the previous nurse. Then I do my assessment and try to chart as I go. I go to fresh surgicals first or patients who have had some "issues" during the previous shift so I can look at them first. I have a sheet where I write down the info that I need. Of course it gets MUCH tougher when we have admissions (from ED, PACU or direct admits) during shift change. I think that makes things trickier because there is a window of time that you need certain things done for your new admission, but you need to do things for you other patients too (plus hourly rounding). I second Jess410's method of checking for missing meds. We do not have a 24 hour pharmacy so it is really important to make sure that you have all your meds available before pharmacy leaves.

I took mine through Ferris State. You could possibly take a math class online if it is required though through them and generally BSN would require a statistics class, which means you have to take an algebra class (or whatever stat pre req they would need) before you take the stat class. Hope that helps.

Thanks! We are actually relocating next year (my current employers are aware) and I was interviewed at another facility for the position of Clinical Informatics Nurse Specialist. I am hoping that I get the position although the commute is going to be a killer. But I am going to give it a shot anyway and I am hoping that I can transition to this specialty for good! Thanks again! (I am looking at other areas as well but this is at the top of my list. Tough to get a nursing job where I will be moving to and it's only due to blind luck that I came across this position.)

Hi everyone! I got selected at work to be trained as a certified trainer at the end of July (two weeks). We are about to transition to Epic and a lot of other bigger facilities in my network have already gone live with it. Supposedly, we will be trained and then we will be teaching blocks of classes, three days at a time after the training. For those who have gone through the training, do you have any tips as to how I should prepare for this role? I will be part of the "go live" process, training etc. and I will be returning to my normal nursing duties once the transition has been completed. My goal has always been to transition to Nursing Informatics eventually and this is the first opportunity I have had to put my foot in the door. Initially, I applied to be a superuser but when this on opened up, I informed them of my interest right away! I am just nervous a bit because I am one of the newer nurses on the floor. I was a teacher at a former life and I have had experience with staff training but the environment here is ..different and personalities are very varied. So I would like to prepare and to do a wonderful job fulfilling my role. Hopefully, I will have more chances like this or eventually if I do change hospitals, it will be at a job that is within this specialty. Thank you very much! Belle

Are you at liberty to say the name of the kind of software/system your are using? PM me if you cannot. :) Thanks!

I'm probably one of the "quiet kids" at work and I am fairly new. People seem to talk a lot about their kids (e.g. graduation, college, prom etc.), food/recipes, diets and trips. Since it is a community hospital in a small town, throw in some gossip there too but I haven't really noticed much of that either.

About an hour away with no traffic. The drive is easy but tough in the winter time, tougher after a midnight shift.

Congratulations!

I travel 55 miles one way to where I work. I love my workplace but with winter time looming ahead, I am not all that excited about trying to finish up a noc shift and driving in the snow. There is a possibility of applying in town (3 mins away from my house) at a critical access hospital. I have no idea what type of experience that will give me.

New grad (December - RN), passed my boards last March, but I worked as an LPN at a skilled nursing home before being hired for Med/Surg/Peds as an RN last May. I was a teacher for 13+ years before I became a nurse. JUST finished my 6+ week orientation and will be working on my own tomorrow (wish me luck!) Starting my BSN in the fall and will be done by summer of next year. We shall see what will happen after that.

No prep course. I just used the Saunders book. Passed with 75 questions. In my graduating class, I think only one person failed the NCLEX - RN (as far as I know), and most of us have RN jobs right now (LTC and hospital). I wanted to take a course but it was just too expensive so I just tried to review on my own in between work and homeschooling my ds. Thank goodness I passed.

I passed!!! Woot!