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I have been working as a clinical analyst for the last couple of years, in a hospital based rural health system. My job has been eliminated and I am interviewing with a vendor (whose products I know). Just would like some insight/advice from people ...

Thank you Mariah, I accepted the position the vendor offered me. I agree with all you said. The main difference is the "focus". The company was very up front "we are a profit-making business and making money is our focus". I actually found that refre...

http://nursing.umaryland.edu/~snewbold/ This is Susan K Newbold's nursing informatics webpage. Select the Newbold Publications link to find a lot of online articles and a list of reference books. I have met and heard Susan lecture a couple of times....

Seems like things always happen "all at once". I believe that is so you aren't dragged down, worrying and tired for a long time- you get it over with more quickly this way!!! Hard part is getting from Point A to Point B. Sounds like a good decision ...

I cannot even imagine!! I am not an OB nurse, have to ask...what the heck is "2 mother craft bubs with reflux" ? (I only understand the mother and reflux part...) Thanks, and you get a "supernurse" award for that shift!!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!! Lots of people (yeah, even nurses and EGADS, even doctors0 still smoke...but lots of people have quit. Once you make up your mind, you have taken a big step. Do whatever else you have to. Here's my history- 27 years total smoking h...

I do not have a good sense of smell- have always said that is an assett in nursing. Sometimes, really bad smells get to me (mostly that rancid skin fold cheese stuff). But I have a rather peculiar aversion for a nurse- blood. Obviously, I can handle ...

Agreed. Like P_RN pointed out, these are not just nursing anecdotes. I work in IS now. Yesterday, they moved all the network servers to Windows 2000. I'm thinking, not a good time, with the moon nearly full. People are really edgy at that time. Add l...

Emery and Mandi; Thank you so much. Your posts give hope for the future of nursing. A lot of people go into nursing for a lot of reasons (it has become a better paying profession with lots of options). There's nothing wrong with that. But to hear fro...

My daughter is losing her medical insurance. She has worked for a county agency (Child and Family services, no less...). They will allow them to pay full premiums to keep it- About $750/month. She will have a baby in May, so going without is not an o...

This website has a link to interview questions from the homepage. http://www.hospitalsoup.com (There are questions to ask for general nursing positions and management positions). I saw some new ones there. I had an interview with Veteran's Admin. r...

Some really good moments for me came working M/S in a very small hospital. We "did it all"- bed baths to blood transfusions, babies to end of life. I learned skills daily and how to be flexible. One day, it occurred to me that I had become the nurse ...

. Well, the OT who saw her this morning said "Oh, no, we don't carry those here. You'll have to get those yourself." She could not suggest anyplace where we might be able to find this. The OT dropped the ball here, that is her job to recommend and f...

You have to really care about people to feel that kind of pain. How incredibly fortunate for that resident and the family to have a nurse willing to give of herself so much. I've been there. I once sat and read to my hospice patient from a book of Je...

In my experience as a clinical analyst implementing an EMR in several hospital based clinics.... "nursing informaticists" need to remember they are still nurses. When teaching nurses (and doctors) who may have very limited technical backgrounds or ev...

rninformatics; gee thanks for clearing that up. I was worried that kyung-mi,jang may have needed a basic,simple explanation due to language/cultural differences. You must be a great teacher.

! I feel sick each day before I work ! 40 years old, sick in the morning... hmmm...hope that working in L&D you didn't "catch" something!! Seriously, I worked in newborn nursery as a brand new nurse, rarely was even in the delivery area. WAY too ...

Yoooo Hoooo.... Stiritup.... Come out , come out wherever you are... Don't stir it up then walk away... we're not b****ing now, we are being nice...

Michigan DOC-to-be: Your on the right track, just asking about interacting with nurses. You will work with us every day of your career, probably more than with other doctors. Mutual respect always works for me. I have never wanted to be a doctor, I d...

I am not a Christian. I am one of the most compassionate and genuinely caring nurses that I know. I sometimes feel that nurses who are outspoken Christians think that they have more or better insight into the human condition, suffering and merciful a...

kyung-mi,jang, Are you looking for general information about nursing in the US? The topic in this area is Nursing Informatics, which is a specialty in nursing. Nursing Informatics is nurses who are specialists in developing or teaching computer prog...

Please fill us in on what exactly you are doing, so that we may direct our energies appropriately. :)

Welcome to nursing! I think more so than many professions, in nursing you never quit learning. Every day is different-every single day! That may sound exciting (as it is most days) but sometimes you will just think "when am I going to be so good at t...

I have always been delighted with men in nursing. "Most" of the male nurses I have worked with were not only excellent nurses but really genuinely nice people who cared about people. At the risk of sounding sexist, there have been times when it's bee...

I had one of those tests (a stereotactic biopsy). When it was first explained to me , the nurse said, "they raise up the table and the doctor works under you. It's like getting your muffler changed" (Seriously for a moment..the technology is great. ...