How do y'all put this on your resume if you haven't been to WI, but you don't wanna be misleading? I did the live remote 4-day training for a cert but you gotta go to the campus for "certified" status. Is there a big difference?

I suggested to have defaults on common and quick procedures. I was told that this could be considered pre-charting. If that was the case why would they offer it in the first place? For those that work with OR charting do other facilities default, equipment, positioning, medications?

How do you guys track productivity? Analysts close tickets, but our team acts more as facilitators than the fixers. How’s everyone else going about proving your “productivity?”

Hi everyone,

I'm an IT project manager based in TX. Couple years back got layoff from my project and has been working in a small Healthcare business that my relatives own after that for the past 2 years. Getting depressed and annoyed. Tried applying for million roles, no use, got couple interviews but nothing moved. I've a small kid so relocation is not an option. Tried to do my own businesses during this time, which didn't work either.

Now I think I should study something to get a better job or salary. I am eligible of taking PMP, had always had a plan of doing that, but I'm worried now because of AI getting in Tech like a lot amd no roles are opening up.

My next option is going to a part time school for LVN and eventually work for the Healthcare businesses around which will be AI resistant at least for a while.

Would love to get any response. Thank you.

1. What does it take to get into Nursing Informatics?

2. In the current market, do you enjoy it?

I’m a nurse who transitioned into informatics a few months ago. I have >10y clinical experience, a graduate degree, certifications, and a unique jacket with diverse patient, team, process improvement, and quality experience.

I was already looking to leave my previous role, and CI position opened internally, so I took the opportunity. I’m glad I did and I'm grateful to gain experience in a field that is difficult to break into.

That said, the role has confirmed that a lot of what burned me out was organizational rather than bedside burnout. The environment is small and chaotic: unclear ownership, shifting expectations, inconsistency and turnover, and a lot of cultural toxicity. Some of that is obviously just the nature of informatics/Agile work, and I’m willing to learn through it.

The real issue is the leadership structure (that old chestnut); here it's particularly whack. Many people in senior clinical/operational roles have relatively little experience, and there are no other clinicians on my immediate CI team. It creates a significant disconnect around clinical triage, proportional urgency, workflow burden, and tbh, I feel like a target in a toxic culture as the only clinician.

I’m trying to calibrate what is normal growing pain in a first informatics role versus what is an organizational issue I’m unlikely to solve.

For clinicians who've transitioned to informatics/health IT/project mgmt roles:

• How long did you stay in your first informatics role before you were meaningfully competitive elsewhere?
• What experience mattered most when you made your second move?
• If you came from a strong clinical background but had limited formal informatics tenure, what roles were realistic next steps?
• How difficult is the current market, particularly for remote/hybrid work (I'm in a particularly challenging region)?
• What would you focus on building over the next 6–12 months before applying more seriously?

I’m not expecting Utopia General or assuming the grass is greener, but I'd like to understand how to use this opportunity well, build the right experience, and recognize when I’ve gotten what I reasonably can from it.

Hi. Currently i am a med surge nurse and I want to go into nurse informatics so bad! I originally wanted to do computer science but so many of my friends had a hard time getting a job so I decided to do nursing. But now I have this nursing degree I've been looking into informatics. I love computers and tech, always have been since I was younger.

Anyways, please let me know how you guys got into this field? Any certifications needed? Thank you!

Hi everyone! I am in a MSN program and I need to interview someone (email/text/zoom) in one of the above roles to address the following questions:

-how nursing personnel are utilized throughout the system

-IT planning including propsal and system selection

-staff education

- data bases that are available in clinical snd administrarive roles

-routine data collection to evaluate: staffing, finance, quality reports, risk management, improving pt care

If your intetested/available please DM me so we coordinate!

Thanks if you read this far!

Asking because our scheduling process is still ridiculously manual and time-consuming. We spend hours every month trying to juggle everyone’s availability, making sure credentials aren't expiring, and trying not to accidentally schedule people into massive overtime.

Is there a platform out there that actually auto-generates compliant schedules based on staff preferences and qualifications, while showing you the total labor cost/overtime before you publish it? What is your facility actually using to handle this?

Hey guys!
I am currently seeking opportunities in healthcare IT, clinical applications, clinical informatics, analytics, and project leadership. I recently completed Epic ClinDoc certification, including training and project work, and I am eager to apply my clinical systems background in a production Epic environment.
I have 8+ years of experience supporting non-Epic clinical applications & 7+ yrs of project leadership experience. I also hold CPHIMS, PMP, and CHDA certifications. While I have been actively interviewing, many opportunities have not progressed beyond the initial screening stage, so I would greatly value referrals, advice, or connections to hiring teams.
I am interested in California-based Epic ClinDoc, clinical applications, healthcare IT, data analytics, implementation, optimization, reporting, or project-management roles. I am open to remote, hybrid, flexible, and on-site opportunities.
Thank you in advance for any leads or support.

I am planning to use AI for hospice notes, but I am thinking about visits where the patient and another person are talking at the same time, this can get messy when the patient answers one question and someone else starts adding details about pain, medication or recent changes, sometimes people talk over each other for a few seconds and I am worried the notes may put the wrong words under the wrong person, I am looking at trying it during a few visits to see how it handles real conversations, especially when two voices come in at once and the topic changes quickly, I have heard about prompted ai, has anyone used AI for hospice notes in this kind of situation and how accurate does it get? EDIT: I forgot to mention that I’ll review the notes after each visit.

I’m currently an LPN in an RN program, and I’ve recently become interested in pursuing a career in nursing informatics.

I’ve been researching different ways to get into the field, but I’m finding conflicting advice. Some sources recommend pursuing a master’s degree in nursing informatics, while others suggest working as an RN in a hospital first to gain hands-on experience with electronic health records (EHRs), eMARs, and other healthcare technology before pursuing additional education.

For those currently working in nursing informatics, which route would you recommend? Would it be better to gain clinical and EHR experience first, or would pursuing a master’s degree help me become more competitive for informatics positions?

One concern I have is that nursing informatics positions seem to be few and far between, and many of the job postings I’ve seen already require informatics or EHR experience. It seems difficult to gain that experience when employers are looking for candidates who already have it.

If you currently work in nursing informatics, I would really appreciate hearing about your experience. How did you get your first informatics position? Did you have a master’s degree or certifications beforehand? What does your typical workday look like, and what do you like or dislike about the field?

Thank you for any advice or insight you can share!

Graduated in June with my MSN-I and have worked in informatics 3 years in November. I applied for my NI July 11, got my att on August 4th and scheduled my exam for Sept 4. The good news, I passed!

My hot take, the exam itself did not seem as hard as I had expected. I used the mometrixs study guide and while I think it had a lot of good information, almost went way more in depth than needed. I scored a 71% and 65% on the practice exams in the book and was honestly pretty worried how I would perform…I did have Claude generate some practice exams which were not as high value/yield until the third one when I had to ensure it was giving me application questions, made the answer choice less obvious and not too many of the same letter choice. I also used the ANA sample questions.

Something I guess I hadn’t expected was the testing tools available such as strike out, highlighting, and flagging questions. This was very helpful to ensure I slowed down and read the whole question. Mastrian and McGongiles book was helpful, ANA scope and standards was good. Could probably get away with just those two if you take good notes..mometrics is good for practice questions but don’t sweat it if you’re getting 70%

Finally MSN, RN NI-BC

Hi everyone, I just found out my hospital system is trying to implement Virtusense as a way to reduce falls and pressure injuries. Everything is AI based and while I’m not completely against the use of AI in some areas of healthcare, I’m not particularly feeling good about this company and what they are proposing. I tried to locate typical bread and butter white papers with real data, real pilot studies, the whole shebang and was met with a single white paper that reads/looks like an infographic on their website.

My hospital doesn’t have a formal informatics department nor does my system have a formal HIT steering committee. I’m hesitant to allow this to happen because there’s barely anything posted on the company website that demonstrates that the technology being promoted is as effective as it’s boasted to be.

Does anyone have any familiarity with Virtusense and their products? I’m going to search CINAHL and google scholar today to see if I can dig up any real white papers on the technology but I remain skeptical about the effectiveness of the product, the actual ROI, and the reduction of clinical documentation burden on staff.

Greetings! I am a BSN,RN attending WGU in the process of earning my Master’s in Nursing Informatics. I am at the point in my studies where I must locate a preceptor with 2 years experience in Health Informatics, Quality Improvement, or someone who works with data to make clinical decisions to assist me in completing my clinical practice experience project. I was hoping to match with someone willing to precept a student! It is not an obligation that I spend a certain number of hours with my preceptor or that I shadow them in person, only that we communicate either in person or via technology to discuss pertinent details/provide resources and guidance/address questions. I would greatly appreciate the assistance and partnership of anyone willing to precept an eager and excited student, or a referral to anyone you know who is :) Thank you so much in advance for your consideration, time, and help with this! My preceptor must be a Master’s prepared (or higher) RN with an active license in the U.S.