Thinking about nursing informatics...

lorazepam · Sep 24, 2010

Where I work, I know nurses in certain specialties are sought because they have a clinical understanding of the processes of that department.

Have you considered working for a health care/ bio-med company? Philips Health Care has an application called "Trace Master Vue" and their clinical support was an ECG tech. She comes on-site (to the hospital) and assists in the implementation of the product.

At the local level/hospital, depending on the size of your facility, you may be the only support person and you'd have to be able to assist staff who are involved in different areas of patient care. That's the level of support I give. I assist lab, radiology, in addition to nursing areas such as emergency and maternity. I think it helps to have experience in the department, because you're able to relate to the staff more, but if you have good people skills, I think you can do anything.

rninformatics, DNP, RN · Sep 24, 2010

Sounds like you know what you want and I'd agree that either way would work -

Related to jobs in informatics related to staff development think about - System Trainer or Educator positions where you train users on the information systems used in hospitals.

Some do work in NI in their specialty but those jobs are few such as with a vendor that specializes in the Oncology or ED systems, etc ........... you may not want to limit your self to specialty HIS systems roles as there are fewer of those jobs. Some NIs do support specific areas of the inpt acute care areas such as being the Information Systems Trainer or Educator that suppports the pediatric units or oncology areas, etc.

Hope that helped and Good Luck!

Hello everyone!
I recently started a MSN program in nursing education and now the school is offering a MSN in nursing informatics. The courses I have taken so far are the "core" MSN courses. I have always been fascinated with health care IT and nursing informatics but never really thought twice about it. I dipped my toes into nursing education and found that I do not want to teach nursing students, but I would like to do some sort of staff development. I am contemplating declaring myself a MSN in nursing informatics major and getting a post MSN certificate in nursing education. I know there are many job opportunities in nursing informatics, but are there any opportunities for this in the staff development world? Also, my speciality is oncology. I have seen a few job postings for nurses to build oncology systems. Does anyone work in nursing informatics in their specilaty?