ThanksForAllTheFish!

ThanksForAllTheFish!

ICU (med/surgical/transplant/neuro/ent)

Member

  • Content

    105

  • Visitors

    5,706

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    1

All Content by ThanksForAllTheFish!

  1. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Guess what? I had my meeting with the dr and a few other staff members this am. Went well. Apparently they all had pretty good opinions of me coming in. The doctor said she was excited that I had...

  2. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks for the info. Finally have my meeting set up with the doc this week. After that meeting that day, the manager wants me to meet with one of the other coordinators (who was my preceptor as a...

  3. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    From my understanding, I wouldn't be managing patients that are on the list, I would be in charge of the evaluation for transplant and placing on list. And of course, rotate on call for calling in...

  4. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    So I met with the program manager. I think I came off ok. I just suck at all those "how do you deal with conflicts with team members" and strengths and weakness questions. I always sound like an...

  5. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Sorry for the late reply.Yes, actually I just completed the initial hr phone interview today. He seemed pretty confident that the hiring manager would want to meet with me. If I do well with that,...

  6. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    Hey everyone! I've looked in this forum for answers to this specific set of questions, but I didn't seem to find any. Forgive me if I'm repeating. I am an ICU nurse who was a superuser during my...

  7. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thank you so much for the information! I went ahead and bit the bullet and applied for a pre transplant coordinator position that opened up at my hospital. Fingers crossed.

  8. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Belizish - nah, I'm not on the west coast, would be nice for vacation right about now though. :) I was merely a Go Live superuser. Not sure what made me "super". Of course I am still considered a...

  9. One more question and then I'll be quite. :)

    ThanksForAllTheFish! posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    So, I got the opportunity to spend a day following a few informatics nurses at my facility and pick their brains. Granted, one single day does not not tell me everything. And there would be much for...

  10. One more question and then I'll be quite. :)

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Thank you all for the information! I really wish an informatics opportunity would present itself; absolutely no guarantee that I would get it, but it would be nice. Right now I am really emotionally...

  11. Transplant nursing

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to emilynorth's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    . I have some questions! I am currently a second career nurse that has been working in the ICU for almost 4 years. My ICU has a varied patient population, but we do take care of kidney and liver...

  12. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Before I became a nurse I was a research assistant in an animal behavior lab. I used a variety of animal tracking/data collecting programs. I used excel 2000 ALOT, was quite the wiz with formatting...

  13. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Thanks for the info!

  14. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Sorry for the one paragraph. It keeps unformatting my paragraphs on the device I'm

  15. Limited EHR program experience

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Oh trust me, I have been lurking in this forum for sometime now :)My only experience is as an end user for our old program, Meditech (a pretty old version) and our new EHR, Allscripts' Eclipsys....

  16. A day in the life of ..............

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to rninformatics's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I love this thread and have read it many times. I was just wondering if anyone else can add/update "a day in the life" for this insightful thread. I am hoping at some point to shadow the informatics...

  17. SuperUser to Nursing Informatics

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Nursing Informatics

    Thank everyone so much for the info! I am going to continue to learn as much about this field as I can. What would I do without allnurses.com? :). Hopefully I will be an effective Super User when...

  18. SuperUser to Nursing Informatics

    ThanksForAllTheFish! posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    I will be a superuser for my unit when my facility finally enters the 21st century with an upgraded computer system in a few months. It will include most everything except the physician's portion (ie...

  19. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    ThanksForAllTheFish! posted a topic in Research

    Was so close to entering the world of being a research nurse: Research position at my hospital (where I work in the ICU) with a patient population I knew and PI's that were docs I was familiar with....

  20. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Research

    kelischa - I'm glad things eventually worked out for you! :) I'll try to hold out as long as I can. Thanks for the

  21. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Research

    Thanks! My post was mostly about venting my frustration/sadness. BTW I live in

  22. Hospital Based Reseach Centers

    ThanksForAllTheFish! posted a topic in Research

    I currently work in the ICU (over a year) but have been trying to get into the research field (pre-nursing I worked 3 years as a research assistant in animal research). I have been trying to make...

  23. Hospital Based Reseach Centers

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to ThanksForAllTheFish!'s topic in Research

    Hey! I was wondering if anybody had anything to add to my original post from way back when. I have been working hard in the ICU but keeping an eye on research positions in my area. Amazingly, I...

  24. areas in nursing research

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to orangepink's topic in Research

    Well, like I said, I am currently not a research nurse/coordinator, but am working on it. So, my knowledge is purely based on my experience as an academic research assistant in non-human studies and...

  25. Interested in patient care coordinator RN job & need info

    ThanksForAllTheFish! replied to Genista's topic in Case Management

    Thanks! Good Luck to you, too!