Occasionally nurses ask me about starting Nursing Informatics while keeping a bedside role. One thing I have not talked much about is that I did not step away from the bedside...
Health Professionals Articles from June 2021
How I Got My First Job in Nursing Informatics
My most frequently asked question is how to get into the field of Nursing Informatics. There are several different ways nurses get into this area, but all eventually end up in...
Why Every Nurse Needs a Career Action Plan
For most nurses, our career planning begins and ends with the statement, I want to be a nurse. We may tag on more detail, such as, I want to be an Informatics Nurse Specialist,...
3 Reasons to Get Nursing Informatics Experience Before a Degree
For nurses, the idea of getting into a job before having qualifications seems counterintuitive. After all, we start our nursing careers by going to school. This is so we can...
Help! I Got an MSN in Nursing Informatics and Cannot Find Work!
There are a number of nurses who think the MSN is where you have to start if you want to get into Nursing Informatics (years ago I was one of them). Unfortunately these programs...
3 Technology Trends for Informatics Nurses
Informatics Nurses have to stay on top of technology trends. We need to be in the know about new approaches that change how healthcare is provided. One major trend that gave...
Top 3 Nursing Informatics Career Advice
The pandemic forced everyone in healthcare to try new technologies. Now there is renewed interest in Nursing Informatics and, quite frankly, health technology could really use...