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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 time convenient to you. You can find it at http://nu...

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 for a healthcare IT vendor and a few suggestions to ...

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 critical to get CEUs, I would suggest contacting them d...

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, then it can be a career advantage for many, but n...

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 this bulletin board - some old and new that can p...

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 degree staring them in the face on my resume. So...

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. Informatic nurses that work in hospitals and for v...

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 come from two directions. They are either clinician...

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 positions.

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. However, they won't show the interactions of the scr...

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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 health care informatics. One is the clinical path: ...

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. http://www.himss.org/content/files/nursing_info_survey2004...

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 of system analysis and design and project managem...

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 because it is a CPOE system. It is a position that req...

MsDeeva - a technical degree such as a degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or management information systems. A MSN in informatics is a nursing degree with a technical focus, but is not considered a technical degr...

Sailor Good luck on your search. Vendors have positions in the field called "Clinical Specialist", "Consultant", "Eduator" or "Application Specialist" or something like that that requires them to be a clinician. These are the positions that travel ...

Sailor - you were in the other posts on vendors as well. If I understand, you have a BS in computer science. Vendors have a lot of different jobs. There are field jobs and factory jobs. The field jobs do installations, training, sales. They are...

Sailor - I got this job over 16 years ago and things were different then. The position I have is actually a software engineering position in R&D. It is not a nursing position and not an official nursing informatics position. However, I do a lo...

I have both a MSN and a MSCS. As Angela states, the main difference is the focus. I can only talk about differences as the MS level. Note that masters in computer science, information systems, and information technology are not necessarily the sam...

The ideal way --- First get a nursing degree, probably a BS at least if you can do that. You can either go the traditional BS program or try the specialized MSN programs that take students with BS in other fields. If you get a BSN or MSN, it allow...

Themathias Thanks for the response. As Angela said, Monster.com and Career builders are good places to look around. Look for positions such as software engineer or programmer with the words of medical or healthcare. Also, HIMSS (http://www.hims...

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Cynthia and Thematais I'm also a informatics nursing with a CS degree (MS). I work in software development for clinical information systems for a vendor. I am just one of many nurses involved. What made you decide to get the nursing education? D...

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