ikarus01

ikarus01

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  1. Nursing home work helpful or harmful?

    ikarus01 replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in Nursing Informatics

    If anything, that nursing home experience can only broaden your job search perspective later on. Nursing homes are also starting to use EMRs, so that experience gives you access to those jobs too....

  2. Anyone works for Epic systems directly at madison, WI

    ikarus01 replied to jmeng's topic in Nursing Informatics

    from the latest histalk blog: "Epic. They gave me a great start in healthcare IT (I didn’t exactly have recruiters pounding on my door as a fresh liberal arts graduate), but it’s truly a sweatshop...

  3. Suggested NI/IT/IS Interview Questions

    ikarus01 replied to rninformatics's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I wasn't holding out!!! More like I didn't know entry level candidates were struggling so much, and that's why those links above came up, because I didn't know what else to do besides scream in...

  4. Does anyone out there work the Go Lives?

    ikarus01 replied to aprilhicks's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I have done go live support and the most consecutive months I ever did was close to 4 months of supporting a couple of different clients and this was by working for 2 different consulting firms....

  5. Anyone works for Epic systems directly at madison, WI

    ikarus01 replied to jmeng's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Epic is known for selling the idea that new grads fresh out of college can be trained to implement their system, and most likely that's why they give out that test to weed out the weaker candidates....

  6. Nursing Informatics info

    ikarus01 replied to nursetxrn's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I have some friends in the healthcare IT recruiting business, and according to them, things right now are looking a lot better than last year and they have told me that the demand at the moment...

  7. Epic Application Analyst

    ikarus01 replied to cjg10RN's topic in Nursing Informatics

    In the past, I have worked implementing OR systems, not specifically epic though. However, no matter what application it is, the phases of the project kind of repeat. Before a project is...

  8. First Informatics Nurse in my hospital

    ikarus01 replied to leekun2010's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Asking if its hard, is a tricky question. For example, I don't like chemistry. I can take chemistry classes and do very well because I understand the concepts, but it would be very difficult for me...

  9. sending an online thank you after interview

    ikarus01 replied to MorningLight's topic in General Nursing

    We have done interviews in the past and the directors are always surprised when they get a thank you email, mainly because many people still don't do that. So an email or the card would never be...

  10. Do men in healthcare suffer from burnout?

    ikarus01 replied to Pigeons's topic in General Nursing

    Easy! Clock out of your shift, and celebrate you're going home by thinking of all the good stuff you have to do at home, like taking a shower, resting, eating,

  11. Do men in healthcare suffer from burnout?

    ikarus01 replied to Pigeons's topic in General Nursing

    I burned out after a couple of years. But my strategy was to use my nursing job as a way to do something else. So as much as I hated to go to the hospital, I was also eager to go and get my...

  12. Medi Tech...Who slept with Who? Vent.

    ikarus01 replied to gcupid's topic in Nursing Informatics

    They are still looking DOS-like? I remember using the system way back in 1998 and it looked like DOS back then. I thought meditech had come up with a GUI version by

  13. I am doing a paper for school.... please post your opinion

    ikarus01 replied to jaclynshroyer64's topic in General Nursing

    Funny thing is, the so called nursing shortage has been going on since I graduated from school in the late 90's. Back in my travel days, I became good friends with a nursing director who used to...

  14. Career advice?

    ikarus01 replied to R*Star*RN's topic in Nursing Career

    I wasn't clear from the post---so did you finish your BSN that you started? Have you looked at other fields within nursing to get away from patient care? Are you stuck in the same geographical...

  15. RN or PA?

    ikarus01 replied to doxiern40's topic in Nursing Career

    You could always go the nursing route, then explore the nurse practitioner

  16. How do you protect your license? What are common errors to avoid? Pls. HELP

    ikarus01 replied to newbiekenobe's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Try to find a legal course given by a nurse in your area. That was what really put me up to speed as to the do's and don'ts of charting and being a

  17. Curious about NI

    ikarus01 replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Hello.... I'll reply based on my experience in the field. Unless you're doing hardware programming or interface programming, or maybe assembly language programming, or hardcore database setup, you...

  18. How hard is nursing school? Another question...

    ikarus01 replied to wnb4's topic in General Students

    As somebody mentioned, a lot of depends on the teacher or the school. We had a teacher that loved theory, and honestly, anytime I picked up the book, I fell asleep. Then I hit the maternity rotation....

  19. Male RN wanting to get some advice.

    ikarus01 replied to DudeinNursing's topic in Men in Nursing

    Do you enjoy being a nurse? It might just not be that the acuity of patients makes you anxious, but the fact that you don't like your job. If anything, health is above all. I would take the less...

  20. Is nursing for me?

    ikarus01 replied to 2RNornot2RN's topic in General Nursing

    Within a year, I also hated my nursing job. Fortunately for me though, I took a vacation to Europe for a few days, and when I came back, I was so motivated to work so that I could take another...