How I Left Bedside Nursing for Informatics
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- This video shares my personal experience of transitioning from a bedside nursing role to an informatics position.
* Part 2 is also on my channel with answers to common questions about grad school and tips on finding a job* • PART 2! How I Left Bed...
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This is so great thanks and if you have more info about if you’re able to work from home or not? And how the salary is -is it unionized? Would you ever go into tech or It
@@user-ym7xz9mx9s These are great questions! I plan to make a new video in the next few weeks when I have time, so I will include these in it! Thanks for watching :)
This is currently where i am at... I have been at the bedside for 8 years and will be completing my MSN in informatics in June.
Good luck! I hope you find an informatics job that you enjoy. :)
How did it go? I’m looking into informatics as well or IT or tech… my heart is broken in nursing been doing it for 10 years but not sure if It compensates just as well or even better for IT
Thank you so much for your video. It is such a great help. You are right, youtibe video clips doesn't help as much to determine if nursing informatics really fit for me. Glad I bump into your video. Thank you! More vidoes pls.
Thanks so much for watching! Part 2 is up now.
Omg, love this!
thanks so much for making! very helpful!
Thanks this was helpful, I am just starting my MSN in Nursing Informatics...Thanks again!
Good luck! Thanks for watching!!
Caroline, The video was extremely informative. Truly appreciate it.
Thank you for this video!
Too bad you haven’t posted more videos! I am an experienced NI, and I enjoyed your vid
Just posted part 2! Thank you for watching :)
I’ve been doing bedside nursing for 2 month and I’m over it already. Im ready for the tech life now.
How has it been? I'm in lab work and contemplating web design/development or medical technologist.
Me too oh my gosh I'm glad I'm not alone
This was helpful! Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Check out part 2 for more information.
This video was highly informative
Thank you for sharing!
Of course! Part 2 is up now with more details.
This is great thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Part 2 is up now on my channel.
This was super informative, thanks! I am currently still in nursing school, but nursing informatics, as well as bedside nursing, is interesting to me.
Thank you for the information, am a nurse currently doing my masters in health informatics management🙌
how is this course going for you
@@munarellatv I am about to complete my Masters HIM program this semester. AMEN 🙌 what do you do now?
@@Dorothysfindinghealth Am planning to start my masters next year but am stuck between nursing informatics vs health informatics management vs MBA in terms of flexibility and never having to be at bedside nursing. Is health information management looking promising so far especially long term. Where are you planning to work once you are done. Pardon my too many questions am just trying to make sure am on the right track cause no more school after this one 😂
@@munarellatv NO problem. You were fortunate to have that opportunity. If you enjoy it so much, and not want to back to nursing. You are on the right rack girl. Also, you can have your master in nursing informatics or health informatics amd still work as a nurse informatics or in health care informatics. Like you mentioned before it's a matter of where you want to work. You want to be more in medical or non-medical. Informatics is next thing hon. I wouldn't change my Masters for anything else. I just started my own healhcare agency, and I work for HHC as a nurse Clinician which involve EHR and documentation. I don't want anything to do with medical nursing, that's just me, except assessment and documentation, lol. I am loving it so far...
thank you for this informative vid!
Excellent video 👍👍 good info
I’m glad to hear there is an option for outpatient nursing informatics.
Thank you for this, currently I am in nursing school and I’m research into this as well so your insight is highly appreciated, thank you so much🙌🏽🤎🧸and you look great sis keep up the great work😇
Thanks for your kind words. Good luck in nursing school!
thanks. great info
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This was so helpful and insightful!! Thanks so much for sharing your experience!! I am currently seeking informatics role and this helped so much!
Thank you
Informative. Thank you.
Until bedside nursing is incentivized financially by management I believe more nurses should leave; I think you made a great decision for yourself by leaving. You can make great money in bedside nursing if you're willing to travel or work yourself into the ground with overtime but a regular 3 shift a week bedside nurse really isn't compensated at a level commensurate with the bullshit you will deal with on the floor, and for that reason I encourage anyone else researching a way out to make the jump!
Agreeeeed!!! So much BS to put up with at the bedside. I think eventually the hospitals will increase nursing pay. They have to. I think Baby boomers make up a chunk of the nursing workforce and since they’re retiring… who’s going to replace them?
Is medical system Informatics also good for MSC for a nursing undergraduate student who just graduated
Hi caroline, I sincerely appreciate ur video. I really need ur help. Am a graduate of microbiology seeking to do my masters in nursing, am thinking nursing informatics is a good one. Since my Masters program will be a scholarship, wot do u think I can do, before I can get nursing informatics as a specialty to study.
I am up for it!!! I want to leave my Area 😅
Thanks for this
Thanks for watching! Part 2 is up on my channel now.
Hi can you guide me I have the same profession and also want to change what to do
Thanks for the video Caroline. I’m an experienced RN and work as a clinical educator. I’m about to start an MSN program. I’m on the fence about which track to choose...informatics, leadership or education. This was helpful.
Thanks for watching! I just uploaded a second video that goes into more detail.
Can you talk about nursing informatics vs health informatics.
I just uploaded Part 2 that addresses this question! :)
I just wanted to say thank you for the video. Im interested in informatics also. This video was very helpful. Do you recommend getting a Masters degree in order to enter the field?
I am currently getting my masters, and I definitely think it's helpful; but I got my informatics job before I started grad school. Honestly, having experience in informatics has helped me a lot in my classes! I think that getting a masters is a good idea, but definitely not necessary for getting an informatics job.
Hey i want to ask health care informatics and nursing informatics both are same or different?
I am currently in the nursing program and I’m an interested in informatics. Do you think you could go PRN at a facility if you wanted to?
Hi Breya, thanks for watching! You could do PRN or Per Diem at a facility to continue bedside nursing. However, it would have to be on weekends. My informatics job (and I think most other people’s) is a normal 9-5 40-hour workweek. I personally don’t want to work additional shifts, but I know someone who does pick up shifts in the ED on Saturdays.
@@carolinec826Do you have to work 5 days a week, and do you have to work in person? What about working remotely and less hours?
Hi thank you so much for this video. Did you go to school for nursing informatics?
Hi! I am in grad school currently. Check out my part 2 video for more details. :)
Hi Caroline, I totally relate to your experience! Do you have to be on-site while working? Is there any option to work remotely? Thank you :)
Hi thanks for watching! There are opportunities for informatics work that is both in person and remote. Even more so now, with Covid, jobs are allowing remote work (or a hybrid) - but there were remote informatics jobs before Covid.
With it being outpatient, did you have to be specifically trained for the newer portion of EMR?
Hi Ken, so sorry for the late response. Yes I did and that was hard for me! My organization used an entirely different EMR for outpatient and I felt super overwhelmed at first. Others who use the same platform across inpatient and outpatient would likely have less of a learning curve. Either way, it can be done! :)
Thank you for posting this video! I am an LPN and I am in school for my BSN and I have been looking for alternative roles with my BSN. Nursing informatics sounded interesting, I just didn't know exactly what I would be doing. Did you say you did obtain your master's degree in informatics, or that you will eventually? Is it required or necessary in your opinion?
Hi Kimberly thanks for watching. I have a Part 2 of this video that explains further. I am currently getting my masters but did not have it when I started in informatics. I think it’s good to have but not always required to get into the field.
This is my plan if I ever comeback as a nurse
Question do I have to get nursing masters to be qualified in nursing informatics? I'm already working on the computer field.
Hi Ray! No, you do not. Many informatics nurses do not have a masters or have a masters in health informatics, which is not a nursing graduate degree. Check out my Part 2 video for more details on this!
@@carolinec826 oh thanks 😊
Hi. I am also a bedside nurse. But I have now realized that I am wanting to do something else. I am looking into informatics and don't know how to proceed. I do have a BSN. How to I get the process started? Do I need to go back to school to get a master's?
Hi! I have a part 2 video on my channel that explains the process I went through and gives some advice about actually making the change. Hope that helps!
Hi Caroline. I have a BSN with 20 yrs experience. Med Surg, Hospice. Have a lot of computer insight. I am currently working on a certificate in Nursing Informatics from a school online to show that I am serious about getting employed in that sector. You emailed the director of the department you wanted to work in? Is that how it works? I mean you can choose any department you want? I am confused. Lol. Please, any guidance would be great. Thanks, Jenny
Hi Jennifer. You can apply for jobs external to your hospital system in a more traditional way through an online job posting or recruiter. I wanted to stay within the health system where I was working at the bedside and wanted to learn about informatics at my organization. So, I emailed the director of the outpatient informatics department asking to meet with her to learn more. She happened to have a position that was opening soon after I met with her. I applied for the open position through my organization’s job page. My point is that networking is a great way to find an informatics job or any job for that matter. I suggest looking for a department where you would like working and starting a conversation with its leader. Good luck to you!
@@carolinec826 Thanks you for your response. I need to finish this class and then 2 more classes for my certificate in NI. I will take the advice for the networking and just seeking out places that I would like to work. Thanks! Jenny
I shadowed some in informatics but it was a lot of sitting and so different than being hands on in bedside. Do you struggle with it being sedentary?
Yes, I sit almost all day. But since I have a “normal” schedule now I can exercise before or after work, walk on my lunch break, and spend more time on my hobbies. Very different than bedside, but 100x better for me personally.
So how much bedside nursing experience did you have before transitioning and how much bedside nursing experience do they look for?
I had two and a half years of bedside experience. There is no specific amount of bedside experience needed for an informatics job, as every situation is different. Some people I work with in informatics are not nurses; but I do think having bedside experience helps me a lot in my informatics role.
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Do you need bedside experience in order to do informatics or can you go into informatics straight out of nursing school without bedside experience? I am currently doing home health and am interested.
Yes and no. You could get a job in informatics without working as a nurse, but it likely would not be a nursing informatics specialist position. Those typically require some bedside experience. There are lots of health informatics jobs that don’t require an RN license. I would recommend getting some experience as a nurse first and using your nursing degree before moving into informatics. That would set you up for nursing informatics positions that utilize your clinical knowledge and roles with higher pay. There might be other jobs out there that I don’t know about, but from what I’ve seen the nursing informatics specialist jobs like you to have some patient care experience.
@@carolinec826 Hi Would 1 year of med-surg experience be enough to work remotely in nurse informatics?
@@blaq2handle It would be a case-by-case basis depending on the job requirements. To be realistic, I think it would be difficult to find a remote informatics job that would hire you with no informatics experience and 1 year of bedside. I recommend looking internally in your hospital to try to get informatics experience. (See my part 2 video for more info on that.) However, it never hurts to apply!
Hi Caroline! Thanks so much for posting this. I've also been looking for other ways to practice nursing apart from bedside care mainly for health reasons. Nursing Informatics seems very interesting but, I want to know, please, is having a bedside experience required to pursue a job as an informatics nurse? This is one of my bigger concerns as I have not worked as a bedside nurse in over 10 years now 😬 any info/advice you could give is truly appreciated. Thanks so much!
Hi! I think you could be successful in this field even if you haven’t been in clinical practice for a while. You mainly need to be able to ask the right questions of clinicians and learn how they work. Having clinical knowledge and experience will help you, even if you haven’t been practicing lately.
I graduated with my MSN in Nursing Informatics but I’ve had trouble finding a job. They all want experience. Any helpful tips? Please help
Hi! Sorry for the late response. That is super frustrating. My best advice is to try to transfer within the organization where you currently work (if it’s a hospital or health system), ask your classmates from grad school how they got a job, ask a professor you liked from grad school for help, or just keep on applying online. You might have to take a lower paying job at first to get that experience, which I know isn’t an option for everyone. I hope you have found or find something very soon!
@@carolinec826 Thank you for responding
@@stratfothave you found a job?
I am looking to get into the healthcare field and start as a MA, but do you think an introvert could do this? I am researching more about this and it seems very interesting and fun!
Hi! Any job in healthcare for the most part requires a level of interaction with people. Medical assistants especially need interpersonal skills and a caring, positive attitude to work with patients. That doesn’t mean you can’t be an MA if you’re an introvert, just that it might not come as easy to you as someone who is extroverted. Informatics still requires working well with others, but is not patient-facing; so it’s easier for people who don’t want a lot of client interaction. You could eventually work up to being a systems analyst which would be more computer work and less work with people. Maybe check out medical coding/billing as well.
Hello Im also trying to get my MA exam , and looking for something that will suit my introversion a little bit 🥲
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Can you do both informatics and bedside nursing?
There are ways to incorporate bedside nursing and informatics. For example, you could be an EMR super user while working as a bedside nurse. You could also do EMR education on your days off or maybe work out a way to work part time on the floor and part time in informatics. However, most of the nurses that I know who work as true nurse informatics specialists do solely that role. They have left their bedside practice and informatics takes up 40 hours of their week. This is just my personal experience - I’m sure some people do both.
@@carolinec826 Got it. Thanks for the input. It's an option that I am contemplating for the future as I recently finished nursing school. Right now I'm preparing for boards then after just contemplating what to do for higher education. An alternative from going the NP route.
Do you always need to have a beside experience before studying or working in the informatics department? Or can someone get the job who studied the program but has no clinical experience? Do you have an idea/stories you might have heard on the 2nd part?
There are many health informatics jobs that do not require you to be a nurse, so yes you can do it without bedside experience. Examples would be EMR analyst or educator, EMR support specialist, data analytics for a hospital etc. So you can go into the field without bedside experience, but bedside (or any healthcare) experience is really valuable in informatics since you need to communicate with clinicians and understand content. Hope this helps!
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Would you say this is a step into eventually getting out of nursing all together?
Yes, if you want it to be. I think it exposes you to the corporate world and the IT world, which makes transitioning to a different career a little easier.
Is the EPR/EMR system Epic?
I’d rather not share specifics about my organization, but Epic is a common EMR system in the United States. Other common EMRs that come to mind are Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, and NextGen. Thanks for watching! :)
did you go to graduate school for Nurse informatic?
Check out Part 2 that I just uploaded for the answer to this question!
This is exactly how I felt too. I was a CNA for 4 years before graduating nursing school and I was regretting my decision to be a nurse because I was already burnt out of the bedside. I know having experience in the clinical setting is helpful for a nursing informatics role but do you think some of my clinical experience as a CNA would be helpful or should I focus solely on getting experience as a bedside RN before looking into a informatics role?
Hi! I’m sorry for the late reply. I personally think your clinical experience as a CNA and then your nursing degree provides you with enough background to work in informatics. However, some employers may feel differently. You’d have to apply to some jobs to find out, but I think you could emphasize in an interview all the ways that working as a CNA has taught you about using technology in healthcare.
Is it a lot of sitting at a computer?
Hi! Yes, it is. Some informatics jobs include rounding in the hospital, which would put you on your feet more.. but for the most part it is a “desk job.” I definitely go to the gym more than I did as a bedside nurse. :)
@@carolinec826 thanks. Do you know if there are jobs for informatics nurses in public health settings?
@@jamie5mauser I don’t know specifics but yes those exist for sure.
hey , did you get a degree in informatics before getting your informatics job
No I didn’t. I got the job first.
@@carolinec826Hi do you have a nursing informatics degree now?
@@dee27206 I got my masters in health informatics (so no, not a nursing degree). My part 2 video goes into this in more detail. :)
Why are there so many videos of Bedside Nursing? never even heard the term until this month. so nurses are really not respected in the US.
I don’t think I understand your question. Bedside nursing is a term that refers to working as an inpatient nurse within a hospital. This differentiates the job from a nurse who works outside of acute patient care, like in a clinic. I do believe that nurses are respected in the US in general and are a trusted profession, although this could always improve. The point of this video is to describe an alternative for working at the bedside as a nurse. Informatics is a specialized field within nursing.
Thank you
Thanks for watching! Part 2 is up now.