ThanksForAllTheFish!

ThanksForAllTheFish!

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  1. Transplant nursing

    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 applied. Ego boost, much? :) No pressure either h...
  2. Transplant nursing

    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 new grad in the ICU. I just hope she remembers good...
  3. Transplant nursing

    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 patients, setting up transplant, and I think er ...
  4. Transplant nursing

    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 idiot and often just blank out.. :) the manger was ...
  5. Transplant nursing

    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, then it's meeting the docs (which many I already wo...
  6. Limited EHR program experience

    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 facilities recent implementation of part of a new EHR. ...
  7. Transplant nursing

    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

    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 go to person and try to be the person who contacts ...
  9. One more question and then I'll be quite. :)

    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 me to learn upon entering this field. However, I...
  10. One more question and then I'll be quite. :)

    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 and mentally buried out with my hospital and beds...
  11. Transplant nursing

    . 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 transplant patients with the occasional panc (and of...
  12. Limited EHR program experience

    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 and data entry.. Helped my boss with some PowerPoi...
  13. Limited EHR program experience

    Thanks for the info! :)
  14. Limited EHR program experience

    Sorry for the one paragraph. It keeps unformatting my paragraphs on the device I'm using.
  15. Limited EHR program experience

    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. I was a superuser when we went live with the first...
  16. A day in the life of ..............

    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 nurse at my hospital, but in the meantime . . . I ...
  17. SuperUser to 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 we go live soon.
  18. SuperUser to 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 we will still have a paper chart for progress not...
  19. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    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. Made a good impression, from what I was told. But ...
  20. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    kelischa - I'm glad things eventually worked out for you! :) I'll try to hold out as long as I can. Thanks for the encouragement!
  21. So Close . . . (kinda vent/pity party!)

    Thanks! My post was mostly about venting my frustration/sadness. BTW I live in Texas.
  22. Hospital Based Reseach Centers

    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 contacts with my hospital system's research institute...
  23. Hospital Based Reseach Centers

    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 discovered one available at my hospital, and I might ...
  24. areas in nursing 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 the little info I've gathered about clinical resea...
  25. Interested in patient care coordinator RN job & need info

    Thanks! Good Luck to you, too! :)