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How long has your husband been a doctor? I think they passed a law where they prevented kickbacks; but back in 1998, 1999, when I lived in the Miami area, my friend who was a doctor in south florida, would go on cruises, and always had good tickets t...

As somebody suggested, if you can do the internship program where pre health students are exposed to direct patient care experience, then do that, as that would be your best way of finding you if direct patient care is for you; if you can't do that, ...

"Might this be a good field for me? What do you all do on a day-to-day basis?" Yes, this field would be excellent for you. If i were in your shoes, I would clean up the resume, and start sending it out. In this field many times they are looking for...

The main thing about these tests is to pay attention to the questions because they will repeat in a different manner, and that's how they catch if you're faking it, or it throws a red flag that you're not being honest. Example questions that get t...

I've had a similar question in an interview before and my response was: Upon learning that my assigned tasks were not in alignment with my values, I immediately informed my manager about my concerns. I explained to them why the tasks assigned confl...

So far NO one has gotten GB from this H1N1 vaccine because trials are just starting. And even if somebody has a negative reaction to the vaccine, I highly doubt the pharmaceutical companies will come out and advertise the fact that somebody got GB fr...

If you want to do informatics, just start applying and see what turns up. Companies like Epic, Cerner, Siemens, etc, love to brag that they have IT nurses in their staff because that gives them a lot more credibility when going to hospitals and imp...

As rninformatics says, consulting businesses are seeing a slowdown from years past. A friend of mine own a consulting company and I'm friends with a recruiter from another place; they both say that there are jobs in specific areas, but not the wide ...

Thank you so much for your post and link!!!

Does anybody know what's the process to renew an expired texas nursing license? We have looked through the texas board website, and all we can find is the link to renew a current license; we tried calling the board too, but all we get is, 'represent...

So did you get any advice? Even though there are a few hospitals in the area, there are two main networks; Seton and St. David's. I used to work in the seton network, and i knew nurses that worked at st davids and came to seton, and those that were...

My friend who works as a nurse in Reading (outside of London area), makes 26k a year, and she's been a nurse for 3 years. Salaries in the UK are significantly lower than in the USA, and yet, the cost of living there is outrageous....well, when comp...

Just wanted to let you know that you don't have to have an 'informatics' degree to break info the field, unless you are going for one of those roles that is specific for a nursing informatist. AS I have said in many other posts: there are dozens of ...

You're right! I quit photoshop when our school gave us a free sample of paint shop pro...photoshop was too much too handle for me! And with excel I stick to basic copy, paste, the function of adding, and some sorting :chuckle ...so yea, excel can ...

I would venture to answer your question with, yea IT experience is not really necessary, but it doesn't hurt to have it, and it really depends on the specific job you're going for; if you want to do programming for an application used clinically, the...

I don't think a clinical area matters, unless you know of a specific job that requires you to be skilled in a certain area, and your goal is to get that specific job. As for myself, I worked all areas of medical surgical units, and the job I got was ...

My first degree was nursing, then it was computer science; i was working for an IT company, and when i was interviewing for clinical it positions, even though i had been a nurse for 5 years, and been doing IT for 2, i always got turned down by inter...

Of course it might be too late now, but if you can, take an intro databases course; always comes in handy cause no matter what system you re involved with, you will always find yourself querying data from tables. As far as what to do---do get a year ...

I'm not Gillian, but if the hospital you're working at doesn't have epic implemented or projects going, one way to 'get in' is to scour job boards looking for hospitals that are looking for rn's trying to make a switch into epic implementations; in ...

Benefits and rewards: I finally felt appreciated for my hard work. As pathetic as that sounds, when I did clinical work I worked long hours, and it seemed that instead of getting ahead, we only got more work and less appreciation. One time I reme...

I've gotten contracts where I work from home for 2-3 months, but that's as homey as it gets. I was just entering data into the system, but really, I was supposed to do that onsite, but then the client realized they didn't have to fly me in every we...

Couple of my friends have, and like any other vendor, it depends what specific role you have; you could be hired as a consultant, and you would go implement their software at different sites in the country; to see what they specifically do, just type...

I took this from one of the hospitals i used to work at as this position is pretty much standard across any hospital that has implemented a vendor software across any department: # This position will be responsible for providing application configura...

Hi there, just curious to see who in here has used software by any of these companies. Last time I used sotware by meditech was in 1999, and i hear not much of that has changed. Currently I use Cerner software and I wondered how does it compare to ...

Yes, it might be that a position requires a master's degree to be in management; I've seen a few hospitals that list a position for management and it requires at least a master's degree; however, I work for a company that has people in management, ju...