i did it..

took the leap from clinical bedside nursing to clinical informatics. out of the comforts of the nursing union into the uncertainty of working in a contract position. I can lose my job anytime - certainly not because of incompetence. i'm talking more about if the recession continues on its warpath and the government slashes its hospital funding.

less hospital funding = layoffs (especially nurses who are not by the bedside and who are only contract).

having said all these, i'm not scared. after all, i could always go back to bedside (i'm still a nurse after all) if there are no clinical informatics opportunities in these uncertain times (though i doubt there wouldn't be...it just sucks to go through the process of looking for employment).

or maybe move to Saskatchewan or down the States. I heard Obama wants to invest more moolah to move to electronic patient records. doomsday or not, i'm heading on...

MUST BE NICE...

see related article here.

in the midst of this so-called recession and the massive taxpayer's money that has been given to some of these companies to bail them out of their sinkholes, where do these people get the nerve to pay themselves.

i wish i had a tool to zap these fat-bellied sharks out of oblivion.

and yes I care because i sympathize with all taxpayers out there whose hard-earned money even barely make it to the food table!

mames me think - why dont we all stick to the old method of saving money (i.e. piggybanks)? let's put them out of business once and for all...

CONTINUING EDUCATION

2009 is the year to start pushing my career somewhere significant.

Since I have come on as a e-doc consultant last October I have learned a great deal about building systems that will capture health information. But I have come to realize that my training and background is not enough. I need more information, more training and background information on the e-health strategies in Canada.

Some significant people have been giving me good ideas - I was training this group of nursing students about the system the other week and the teacher was a member of RNAO. She encouraged me to join. So I signed up today. and after i signed up I came across the COACH website - I signed up for the HITS course. I am excited. This is exactly what my manager was encouraging me to do.

Will post about how the HITS course went.