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Please purchase and read the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice in Nursing Informatics. http://nursingworld.org/books/pdescr.cfm?cnum=3#INFPKGCS This is a valuable document that describes our speciality field. In addition, you might find interesti...

Sometimes it is hard to get your foot in the door. Consider volunteering to work as a "super user" at your current job. Another thought is to do some informational interviews with current systems analysts or nurses working in nursing informatics po...

Here's a story that took 20 years to unfold. I was a young Navy Nurse assigned to a small hospital overseas. 20 years later, I reported in to my new command and discovered my Commanding Officer had been stationed at the small hospital at the same t...

Here's another resource for you http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/%7Esnewbold/sknfaqni.htm "Frequently Asked Questions about Nursing Informatics" Good luck Kathleen Smith

You might be interested in exploring the field of nursing informatics by attending a "WINI" (Weekend/Weekday Immersion in Nursing Informatics). Please visit http://www.winiconference.net for a description of WINI, and location of upcoming conferences...

Congratulations on your new position. In addition to all the training and courses your vendor will offer, be sure to be an active member of your vendor usergroup and join a nursing networking group and one professional organization. Talk to your ...

While these medical shows are entertaining, they are not good at representing nurses and what we do. In this time of nursing shortages, it's important that the general public understands that they go to a hospital for "nursing care" not the doctor's...

Plan to attend the Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics in Baltimore next summer. It's a great week of networking and learning. You might also find the Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics valuable. The latest schedule is at http://www.wini...

In addition to all the panels, speakers, papers and posters there are two nursing informatics events to note. On Saturday October 22 there will be a day long nursing informatics symposium hosted by the AMIA Nursing Informatics working Group (NI-WG) a...

Congratulations on joining the nursing profession. If you can afford it, go straight for the BSN, it saves time in the long run. Many nurses find a certificate program in nursing informatics, and there are masters and PhD programs offered in nursin...

Hello Becky and all interested in nursing informatics, There are a number of ways to get into nursing informatics. One way is to volunteer to work on projects in you institution around nursing informatics (perhaps a work flow group or learning to be...

Your work assignment will depend on the "needs of the Navy". You can always ask/apply for a change in duty assignment (from med/surg to a specialty area). Talk to your nursing supervisor, chief nurse once you get your feet on the ground. Again, ho...

Check out Care Ware http://www.caresystemsinc.com Ask for a web ex demo of a very nice nurse scheduling system designed by nurses to solve this problem. It's even easy to allow self scheduling. Contact me if you want more information. i

First pass the NCLEX -PN exam. It would be good to get some clinical experience under your "belt" before you move into the world of informatics. Look at the vendors job postings - you'll get an idea of the kinds of job experience they are looking f...

If you have antivirus and firewall software and you're sure your virisus and other "bugs" are gone, then you probably do need the active X component. You can read about active xon the microsoft home page - or on webopedia.com http://www.webopedia.c...

Did you enroll in Excelsior College or a group that uses the excelsior name but is not affiliated with the college? (I have a freind who discovered she was not enrolled in the college - the courses were extremely difficult and the payment plan sound...

Angela's advice is "right on" Get a copy of "What Color is Your Parachute" ( or other career and job seeking books). Take an inventory of "what you want to do when you grow up". Then look at the job postings in your career field and the requirement...

Now that you are an informatics nurse, start networking! Join a networking group - CARING is the oldest http://www.caringonline.org Angela is President of MANI http://www.maninet.org ANIA is a west coast chapter http://www.ania.org Budget to come t...

It's tricky Start with http://www.psna.org Select Nursing Resources Select Career Center Scroll to Articles and Info Select Nurse Informatics Select Quick Links Then you can see a lot of information about nursing informatics. Good luck

Most national and international health informatics conferences offer continuing education that is appropriate for nursing informatics. Check out the Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics offered by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, HIM...

Another source in preparing for the nursing informatics exam or learning about the field of NI is to attend a WINI. (Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics). ANCC approved contact hours are awarded for this conference. For a description of the cour...

100 years (when I was nursing with Florence :) ) we used a simple 4 point system. 4 for total care - to 1 for self care. All the nurses put the numbers beside their patients at 10 am (and 4 pm) and then staffing was adjusted based on patient acuity...

Another way to learn about nursing informatics is to join a nursing networking group like ANIA, CARING, MANI, CSR-CIN, and others, attend a HIMSS meeting (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) or a weekend workshop like WINI (Weekend...

If your ISP offers use of Trexil, there is an automatics "counter" which is added to your web page. I understand that Microsoft FrontPage is fairly easy to use. If you use products like Dreamweaver, it should also be easy to add a counter. Getting yo...

Here are more books to purchase: Englebardt, S., Nelson, R. (2002) Healthcare Informatics An Interdisciplinary Approach. Ball, M.J., Hannah, K., Newbold, S.K., Edwards, J. (2000) Nursing Informatics Where Caring and Technology Meet.