ikarus01

ikarus01

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  1. Nurse informatics salary

    ikarus01 replied to Incognito Escondido's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Miami---From my past experience, which is about 5 years ago, hospitals in that area always were low balling in salary, even with experience. The other issue happening now is, obviously, a...

  2. Not sharing EMR notes w patient/family

    ikarus01 replied to ActiveHusky's topic in General Nursing

    My first place of employment (eons ago--mid 90's--- ?) had a legal nurse do an in service about writing proper nursing notes. Back then, there was no Cures Act that allowed patients to see notes, but...

  3. Thinking About Getting Masters in Informatics

    ikarus01 replied to kaybrianna0's topic in Nursing Informatics

    First thing, look at many of the posts here...a lot of people looking for preceptors. I myself don't understand the concept---you're paying thousands of dollars for a degree, and then you're on your...

  4. Getting my foot in the door

    ikarus01 replied to acmt27's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I have always been an advocate for trying to get a job with your current experience. It seems that a nursing informatics degree opens the doors to interviews, but it does not guaranteed a job. I...

  5. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    do you know if your hospital reports the unvaccinated as the CDC does? If you took 1 dose of 2, for example, you fall under the unvaccinated category. Or do those stats consider 1 dose of 2 as...

  6. Advice: LPN considering informatics

    ikarus01 replied to BluePotion's topic in Nursing Informatics

    You don't need to get an RN to go into informatics; I have worked with CNA's and LPN's who are now analysts or trainers. Epic specialist---what specifically is your role with this job title? Are...

  7. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I actually laughed at this because I had the same question in my brain. This could have just been written as, Some/a few vaccinated patients are winding up in the ICU. Future...

  8. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    ikarus01 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    In the past 4 weeks, have had 2 family members who are boosterized with pfizer end up in the hospital with covid. One in her late 50's living in California, another one in her late 40's who lives in...

  9. Have you worked with a GOAT in healthcare?

    ikarus01 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    hahaha! Definitely not. But I still remember that shift so clearly because it really "shocked" me. That director always wore scrubs when I went to that floor. Don't think I ever saw another nursing...

  10. Have you worked with a GOAT in healthcare?

    ikarus01 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Back in 2004 or so, was working as an agency nurse, and would mainly get sent to an orthopedics floor where everybody was very unhelpful. One weekday, I was sent to a med surg floor. As soon as...

  11. Name title

    ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Patient Education

    I have a degree in nursing and CS...been working in the field since early 2000's. I write my name as, John Doe I guess I'm doing it wrong!

  12. 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Masters in Nursing Informatics

    ikarus01 replied to Lisa Brooks's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Been in the so call informatics field since 2005, started as a Surginet analyst, then switched over to become a consultant, then became physician provider support in epic, then epic analyst. For me...

  13. New NI Student - how to prepare for future work?

    ikarus01 replied to Enarra's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Most NI programs are....a bit lacking. If I were you, I would spent time learning SQL because no matter what vendor software you work with, reports are always a hot commodity. And even if you are not...

  14. Is it important to have experience in different nursing units to become an informaticist?

    ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Plenty of old threads on this forum to answer as to what informaticists do. But if you have 10 years of med surg experience, didn't you ever document on computers? So the role of the informaticist is...

  15. Epic certification

    ikarus01 replied to sara skidmore's topic in Nursing Informatics

    So prior to the covid outbreak, the cost to get certified was 26k per certification. And I know because when you take a job as an epic analyst in some hospitals, they tell you that if they send you...

  16. Nursing Informatics

    ikarus01 replied to Cmmc911's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Is it worth leaving a floor position to pursue a job in nursing informatics? what does this mean? That you have a floor job now and you want to quit and then start looking for an NI job? Or do you...

  17. Will other IT certifications help me obtain a Nursing Informatics position?

    ikarus01 replied to ChristopherB's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Nursing informatics, in terms of configuring a vendor's software, doesn't really need those certifications form MS, cisco, etc. So yea, I wouldn't waste the time or money in those certifications as...

  18. Am I headed in the right direction??

    ikarus01 replied to stephalina6's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Yes, you could even command a higher salary because of your clinical knowledge and past expertise. Not sure why would it even be a wrong move. Best of

  19. Is it important to have experience in different nursing units to become an informaticist?

    ikarus01 replied to madz0212's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Is it important for a nurse informaticist to have experience in multiple nursing units? Not really. Look at companies like Cerner or Epic---they hire people who implement their applications without...

  20. New Nurse? Can I get a job in Informatics right away

    ikarus01 replied to Johnwick21's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Theoretically speaking, you could get a job in informatics without much nursing floor experience. It really has to do with the needs of the hospital and how many candidates they have in their area....

  21. I am desperately looking for a nurse informatics preceptor in New York City

    ikarus01 replied to LilianaC's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I can't help, but I'm really curious to know, why would you enroll in a place where you have to find your own preceptor? Isn't that the equivalent of enrolling in nursing school and being told, yea,...

  22. Anyone willing to help a student?

    ikarus01 replied to nursex23's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Another request that gets done every week it seems...."I have an assignment that requires me to interview a nursing informatics nurse." Why aren't there assingments to interview ICU nurses? How about...

  23. Need Advise for Nursing Informatics.

    ikarus01 replied to AK66's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Networking skills as in, if you don't want to go for a master's degree, then you better go out there and hustle for the job. ? But yea, if you do have a master's degree, helps to get that...

  24. Need Advise for Nursing Informatics.

    ikarus01 replied to AK66's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Just to reinfornce the idea that you don't need to get a master's degree to get into informatics. What you need is networking skills...Yes, a few years back getting a job was easy, but is still...

  25. How to get into Informatics

    ikarus01 replied to Mere_RN's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Look at the questions on this forum as your same exact question has been asked in the past numerous times, and detailed answers have been