Mariah

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1. Nursing Informatics CEU's

   Mariah replied to nursembeth's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Also the summer institute in nursing informatics at the University of Maryland provides a webcast with a significant amount of potential CEUs in July. You can watch the recorded web programs at a...

2. Starting informatics career advice

   Mariah replied to supermom2's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Supermom - congratulations on your new position. I'm not sure what type of employer you have. You mention a company, so I perhaps can infer that you work for a vendor or other IT company. I work...

3. SINI - Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics

   Mariah replied to rninformatics's topic in Nursing Informatics

   I've done the web cast for 2 years now. It is very useful. I've been able to get the CEUs, but I had to contact them directly to request them. They don't necessarily come automatic. If it is...

4. Please help me to understand

   Mariah replied to jascraft's topic in Nursing Informatics

   As Angela as said, you don't need a CIS or IS or CS degree to go into nursing informatics. You do need clinical experience. If you happen to have a technical degree or are currently working on one,...

5. Where to begin??

   Mariah replied to bth44's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Try http://www.amia.org/working/ni/education/education.html for a list of nursing informatics programs. You will need to have some clinical practice for informatics jobs. There is a lot of info in...

6. Please help me to understand

   Mariah replied to jascraft's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Congratulations perseus. As a nurse with a CS degree, I know where you are coming from. I actual had an IT head hunter who knew I was a nurse, asking me if I could do programming. This with the CS...

7. Please help me to understand

   Mariah replied to jascraft's topic in Nursing Informatics

   The health care informatics field depends heavily on databases such as SQL server and oracle. I guess the main question is whether you want to focus on the nursing or focus on the computer science....

8. Please help me to understand

   Mariah replied to jascraft's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Jascraft - what made you decide to get the LPN in the first place? What type of computer background do you have? Do you have any programming experience. People in the healthcare informatics area...

9. Please help me to understand

   Mariah replied to jascraft's topic in Nursing Informatics

   What's your first priority? To be a nurse or to be a computer programmer? There are jobs that mix both in nursing and technical

10. Software_Applications

    Mariah replied to matyt2's topic in Nursing Informatics

    maty12 I don't know if this would be enough to help you or not. Sometimes you can check the various vendor sites. Many of them have screen shots of their products if you search around enough....

11. Anyone know anything about HL7 ?

    Mariah replied to oneLoneNurse's topic in General Nursing

    check out http://www.hl7.org for full

12. Advice

    Mariah replied to l4zo's topic in Nursing Informatics

    It is hard to tell from your message whether you looking at nursing informatics from a nursing perspective or from an informatics perspective. There are two paths that people can take to get into...

13. BS Comp Sci vs BS Info Tech?

    Mariah replied to rn500's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Linda A good source of information would be the HIMSS survey they did this past Feb on nurses in nursing informatics. It will tell you salaries, education, and roles. Heres a link for it....

14. Career Advice

    Mariah replied to senimoni's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Senimoni - What a nurse with a nursing informatics background does in IT may be different than what an regular IT person does. There is some overlap in job responsibilities, particularly in the areas...

15. Informatics

    Mariah replied to sailor444444's topic in Nursing Informatics

    MsDeeva. I can not be sure exactly what they are looking for and what the position involves as I am not familar with the add or IDX. I would assume that it would prefer informatics experience...