Murse901 MSN, RN

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  1. I worked full-time through my BSN and my MBA with WGU. It can be done. However, your full question was "can [you] work full-time, work towards your bachelors and still have some what of a life". The answer to that is, it depends. If your goal is to f...
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    New RN with an informatics goal

    It's unfortunate that you're only 5 months into your nursing career and are already burnt out by bedside nursing. Perhaps switching to a different specialty (ED, telemetry, ICU, etc) might help? To be honest, you just need more clinical nursing exper...
  3. I'm looking at sitting for my RN-BC Nursing Informatics in December. So, to get ready for eligibility, I need to get 30 CE in NI. I've searched all over, and I can't find a one-stop shop for all 30 hours. I can pay $99 here and get a few hours, $69 t...
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    Nursing Informatics CE -- any one-stop shops?

    Ah, looks like I totally overlooked the whole-conference packages and just saw the individual presentations at $20-30/each. Oops! I can handle $199 + the $79 membership fee quite a bit more than I can handle $600. Thanks to both of ya! :)
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    Nursing Informatics CE -- any one-stop shops?

    I did check ANIA out. But, it looks like all of their conference CE is $20 a pop (for members) for 0.5-1.5 hours, unless I'm reading it wrong. Not super excited about the prospect of paying ~$600 for CE on top of $79/year for membership.
  6. Just thinking forward to a time when I may want to enter nursing education. Is there any value on the resume to being a WGU evaluator? Not a clinical evaluator, but the folks who grade papers. My initial impression is no, because this is much of...
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    BONUS: Nurses Week Meme Contest

    I'm completely ignoring the rules and just posting my favorite nursing meme [ATTACH=CONFIG]24556[/ATTACH]
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    WGU MBA-HA?

    I think it depends on your end goal and the culture of your organization. Do you absolutely love nursing leadership? Get the MSN. Are you considering branching out into non-nursing leadership roles? Get the MBA. Do you want to maximize your marketabi...
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    WGU FNP

    Speaking as a WGU fan, with a WGU BSN and MBA under my belt, I don't expect WGU to roll out an FNP or a DNP any time soon. Even if they did roll out an FNP, I would expect that it would be limited to a handful of states in the same way that the pre-l...
  10. I was at a training seminar held by the local health department today, and one of the nurses there gave me a business card. "Concorde Career Institute, Jane Doe (not her real name), DNS, RN, Nursing Program Director". I didn't ask her about it at the...
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    PSA: WGU now has an MSN in Informatics...

    I don't even mind the 3P's as part of informatics curriculum. 1) Those courses just make one a better clinician, which is necessary for bridging the gap between IT and providers. 2) It opens the door for a post-Master's NP down the road if one wants ...
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    PSA: WGU now has an MSN in Informatics...

    Despite the fact that I have my MSN, I've never been a big fan of Master's-level nursing programs. There's just entirely too much fluff and not enough meat. It's even worse in NP programs, where you get a handful of clinical courses and a bunch of us...
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    Nurse Informatics MSN Info (Salary, experience, etc)

    In my organization -- 14-hospital system in Memphis, TN -- neither an MSN nor a BSN nets any additional pay over an ADN. The only thing the degree gets you is a leg up on the competition. No additional pay for IT experience, either. It all comes down...
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  15. Trying to figure out what the next step in my career will be. Before my nursing career, I was an aspiring IS guy, but never snagged a job higher than helpdesk support. I missed the 90s IT bubble and by the time I'd gotten into the field in the late 9...
  16. How big is the organization you work for? I think that's going to be the biggest factor in getting a foot in the door. Smaller systems (or worse yet, single hospitals and clinics) will have one or no informaticist. A large system is going to have con...
  17. I'm going back Feb 16th/17th for my last class. I didn't make it to my class this week due to O'Hare getting shut down by snow. We'll have to meet up for a beer in Madison!
  18. Quick update for anyone following this thread. I've spent the last two weeks traveling back and forth for Epic training. The Epic campus is really amazing and, yes, as sweetlilwolf said, the food and coffee is amazing (Magic Coffee ftw). I think I ga...
  19. I did end up accepting the job. I'm actually flying out to Madison tomorrow evening for my first training session at Epic HQ. Wish me luck!
  20. Just a quick update -- I got the job offer and it came with a pretty decent raise. I'm 99% sure I'm going to take it, but will have to talk it over with the wife because I'd have to travel 3 or 4 times to Epic HQ in Wisconsin for about a week at a ti...
  21. Since I didn't get any input here, I turned to a non-nursing forum that I regularly post on. A member there suggested that I look on LinkedIn for people who have similar jobs to see what their background is. This turned out to be great advice, becaus...
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    Would you report this error?

    I honestly stopped reading after that. Yes. Whatever the question is, if it's related to narcotics, report it.
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    WGU will not accept me

    And here again, we have someone posting under the guise of asking for advice, but just dismissing all reasonable responses and making personal attacks on those that are genuinely attempting to help. How do these people avoid washing out of nursing sc...
  24. Not completely nursing school related, but I have been concurrently enrolled in WGU's MBA Healthcare Management while working on my MSN/FNP. As of last week, I've completed all requirements and submitted for graduation. It's a great feeling to have t...
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    Working as WGU evaluator worth anything on resume?

    I'm sure that doctoral preparation is preferred for evaluators, but I find it unlikely that a ton of DNP/PhD-prepared nurses are chomping at the bit for a $21/hour evaluator job. Then again, course mentors don't make a whole lot more than that, so I ...