What kind of jobs can you get in informantics?

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Specializes in Psych nursing, DD nursing.

I've considered getting a Master's in this area but I'm afraid there aren't many jobs available or that it would be hard to get a job in this area.

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

I'd say it really helps if you have a background and experience in this area. It helps to be established and know people in the field.

If you know nothing of the field, just getting the degree and expecting jobs to appear, especially a fulfilling, stable, or well paying one, is probably a fancied dream. There are better ways to escape the bedside.

Informatics spans from glorified communications facilitator and technological handholder to database analyst to project manager etc. It depends on your skillset and experience.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Don't forget the nursing part of it. I have stumbled into a practicum situation that may turn into a job. Short story is that there is a SIM lab in my SON and they don't have anyone to assist with real-time charting while working in the SIM lab. The same issue in the medicine side.

Helping with developing careplans, education topics. You don't even need to be able to write code. Example: when we first went live, there was charting related to a coronary artery bypass graft. It was listed in EPIC as a "CABBAGE"". They need nurses that know the difference.

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.
Don't forget the nursing part of it. I have stumbled into a practicum situation that may turn into a job. Short story is that there is a SIM lab in my SON and they don't have anyone to assist with real-time charting while working in the SIM lab. The same issue in the medicine side.

Helping with developing careplans, education topics. You don't even need to be able to write code. Example: when we first went live, there was charting related to a coronary artery bypass graft. It was listed in EPIC as a "CABBAGE"". They need nurses that know the difference.

Exactly! OP This is the type of stuff that you can get in as experience, or being an EHR superuser, leveraging bedside care, so that if you go for an Informatics degree, you have some resume material.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

CABBAGE? That is hysterical!! Lol

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

I know! We laughed pretty hard, They were really embarrassed

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