Since the pandemic started and health technology got the spotlight, many more nurses are interested in a career in Nursing Informatics. However, a lot of nurses are not quite...
Health Professionals Articles
Early in my nursing career I taught health technology classes to other nurses, and I saw how many of us were not comfortable with technology. But nurses, doctors, therapists, and social workers are expected to not only use technology, but keep up with new tech that may radically change our jobs. The message is clear – evolve or go extinct. These articles will help you evolve.
My Bedside vs Informatics Experience…in Gifs
Happy National Nurses Week! At Writing the Future of Health we are certainly celebrating, and thought we would kick things off by having some fun with blog posts. The most...
5 Things Nurses Should Know About Nursing Informatics
Because Nursing Informatics is still a relatively new area, there are many nurses who have not heard of it. We need to change that because healthcare is only becoming more...
Top 5 Work-From-Anywhere Locations for Nurses
A lot of nurses do not realize there are career paths that allow us to work from wherever we want. Having a portable nursing career like Nursing Informatics comes with the...
Nurse Burnout – Is Nursing Informatics the Answer?
The other morning I got a text from my husband. He sent a news headline along with the note, Help them. It was from the Washington Post and read: “Burned out by the pandemic, 3...
Making Charting Easier with Speech-to-Text Technology
Usually the purpose of technology is to make life easier for human beings. Unfortunately, as hospitals went from 10% to 80% adopting electronic health records (EHR) over the last...
MSN vs MBA: Which is Better for Nurses?
You may have noticed I have a bit of alphabet soup after my name: RN, MSN, MBA. This means I am a Registered Nurse (RN) with a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) and a Masters...
Nursing Informatics vs Nurse Practitioner
A lot of nurses considering graduate school programs think their only option is to become a Nurse Practitioner. Half of the nurses I speak to do not even know what Nursing...
How to Be a (Great) Subject Matter Expert
If you are thinking about working in health technology, but you are not sure where to start, becoming a Subject Matter Expert is a great...