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  1. feel terrible, "I don't care anymore"

    perseus29 replied to anticoagulationurse's topic in Nursing Career

    When I felt that way years ago, I changed jobs, became a travel nurse; I was satisfied for a while, then came back to the same feeling; even though I had assignments I enjoyed, it was just rough to...

  2. nclex good in more then one state

    perseus29 replied to keke56's topic in Nursing Career

    I used to be a travel nurse, and in that case, I had my license in 3 different states---florida, texas, Oklahoma....this was about 5-6 years ago; my original license was from florida; then I got one...

  3. Misys interview

    perseus29 replied to tipiwoman's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Well, in my case when I applied with them, they conducted all their interviews over the phone, and it was 3 different people, so about 3 hours long; first two people i remember talking to were people...

  4. Misys interview

    perseus29 replied to tipiwoman's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I interviewed with this company in 2005; since I was experienced and I was coming from a company that gave me 15 days off in the year (in addition to national holidays), one of the questions I asked...

  5. starting salary to annual salary?

    perseus29 replied to bjmarthin1986's topic in Nursing Informatics

    If you work for a company such as mckesson, cerner, epic... starting salaries will start at around 57,000; however, you can negotiate from there. Cerner is known to pay the least. With no...

  6. What Exactly IS Informatics Nursing?

    perseus29 replied to CNAtoRN2b06's topic in Nursing Informatics

    No, you don't have to be a nurse; large companies such as Cerner or Mckesson for example, hire non nurses to do informatics jobs. I'm sure you will read in the postings that of course it's beneficial...

  7. Anybody here used Mckesson/Cerner/Meditech systems?

    perseus29 replied to perseus29's topic in Nursing Informatics

    My only suggestion would be that no matter what system it is, find out what the implementation methodoloy is from both vendors. Hospitals will say, we want to have the system working for us in 6...

  8. New RN with some computer experience...

    perseus29 replied to nursedude1's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Any suggestions as to where I can start looking at resources? I believe I have provided this info in couple of other posts. Does the hospital you work at have an electronic medical record system?...

  9. Some Kid dreaming big!

    perseus29 replied to Matt000's topic in Nursing Informatics

    When I was in nursing school this is how it worked: 2 years to complete all prereqs---basic chem, anat and physiology, statistics, microbiology, etc, social sciences and all those prereqs colleges...

  10. iSeries Computer Programmer Turned Nurse

    perseus29 replied to cwinlv's topic in Nursing Informatics

    If you're working for a company, most likely you won't be doing patient care. However, maybe if you're working as a nurse in a hospital, and they pull you in to work in a project you might still be...

  11. Questions...

    perseus29 replied to pjsleepy's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Salaries tend to vary depending where you are and experience level of course. A new grad (undergrad) coming out of schoool with no experience might be making 45k and above. (This is based on a...

  12. Information on Meditech and Cerner

    perseus29 replied to RN2Be2008's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I used meditech long time ago. 1999 and 2000 and back then, it was all text; it had no GUI, so you could get thru documenting something really fast, if you knew how to type. A lot of the nurses...

  13. This field doesnt look promising

    perseus29 replied to 30andconfused's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Finding jobs under informatics at the hospital sure, is almost nonexistant. Informatics seems to be the fancy term used in europe, and in universities to obtain a degree that combine healthcare and...

  14. Need Your Expert Advice

    perseus29 replied to NurseDiva04's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Hi there... When you say you want to combine the 2, what do you mean? You want to get a job that combines both? As for myself, I worked as a nurse for 7 years, and during 2 of those years I had an IT...

  15. nursing informatics roles descriptions

    perseus29 posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    Since people are always asking what specifically do informatic nurses do, I'm linking below a site hat has some nurse informatics role descriptions. That should give a basic idea of what jobs exist...

  16. Question regarding Contact hours vs Credit hours

    perseus29 replied to NO1_2NV's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Depending on the employer, they either hire those that have a CIS/MIS/CS background with no healthcare experience, or they hire healthcare experienced people with no IT experience, or they hire people...

  17. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    of course, always always always in a

  18. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Take a database class. All systems have data data data and more data. Knowing the concepts of a database is essential and the fact that you like working with databases should make this easier. And...

  19. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    ahhh..well, dont know where the statistics would be for

  20. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    what do you mean by

  21. Need information on Nursing Informations field

    perseus29 replied to rhp123's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I would say the job market for nursing informatics graduate is good; the main problem is that hospitals want people with "hospital implementation experience." In my case I had a nursing degree with...

  22. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    i have worked on 4 -5 projects ....not sure. i dont keep track; is all the same, really. Start with the design phase, data collection, build system, test it, and release the beast, and hope for the...

  23. Isolation rooms and paperless charting, computers

    perseus29 replied to RNKPCE's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I was at a hospital where the hospital bought keyboards and mouse/mice that were or could be sterilized; they were 200 bucks a piece and they really were so hard to use as they keys on the keyboard...

  24. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    I have worked on international projects but virtually; haven't traveled out of the countyr for them yet; however, assignments vary; from weeks to months; depends where you are going, what project,...

  25. Backgruond?

    perseus29 replied to -Midget-'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Well, it could be a 9 to 5 job; mine fluctuates; there are down times and times where you will be working 7 days a week putting in 12 hour days; it really all depends on what type of job you have; you...