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This is a long shot, but does anyone on here have (or know of someone that has) a degree in Health Informatics? I'm possibly going to be choosing this as my Masters but I would like some more information about it.
Another option is to just get my MBA. For those of you with this degree, did it pay off?
Thank you!
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 Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | I have an MBA and alsways had a bit of an issue that it was not specialized enough - I knew a bit of everything but wasn't really good at anything.... If I would do this again, I would be more tageted.
That being said, I fell into a career within the market intelligence for pharma/biotech/device companies field (most don't know this exists). What we do is produce information for said companies to make better business decisions. A health informatics degree may come in handy on the analyst side of this - I'm in sales. |
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | GoMistyGo - 2017-05-25 9:13 AM I have an MBA and alsways had a bit of an issue that it was not specialized enough - I knew a bit of everything but wasn't really good at anything.... If I would do this again, I would be more tageted.
That being said, I fell into a career within the market intelligence for pharma/biotech/device companies field (most don't know this exists). What we do is produce information for said companies to make better business decisions. A health informatics degree may come in handy on the analyst side of this - I'm in sales.
Thank you! This is what I worry about with a MBA. And I dont ever see myself in sales. Right now I have a BS in Health Administration and basically everything I see available requires a masters or 5+ years of experience. I have been toying with the idea of going back and getting a different BS altogether but I honestly just dont want to start over. So I think I'll just get a masters, which will hopefully only take another 2 years. I have a decent job in the meantime to hold me over. I am drawn to health informatics because if I were to go back, it would be IT and this is essentially IT in healthcare.
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | Runninbay - 2017-05-25 9:28 AM GoMistyGo - 2017-05-25 9:13 AM I have an MBA and alsways had a bit of an issue that it was not specialized enough - I knew a bit of everything but wasn't really good at anything.... If I would do this again, I would be more tageted.
That being said, I fell into a career within the market intelligence for pharma/biotech/device companies field (most don't know this exists). What we do is produce information for said companies to make better business decisions. A health informatics degree may come in handy on the analyst side of this - I'm in sales. Thank you! This is what I worry about with a MBA. And I dont ever see myself in sales. Right now I have a BS in Health Administration and basically everything I see available requires a masters or 5+ years of experience. I have been toying with the idea of going back and getting a different BS altogether but I honestly just dont want to start over. So I think I'll just get a masters, which will hopefully only take another 2 years. I have a decent job in the meantime to hold me over. I am drawn to health informatics because if I were to go back, it would be IT and this is essentially IT in healthcare.
I think this is a good idea.
I didn't see myself in sales either when I got the MBA... I am happy with what I am doing though. I get to work from home an make a decenet living to afford our expensive passion..... 
I do however have a massive sales target over my head evry single day. No break from that ever. So this can be very stressful at times.
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | GoMistyGo - 2017-05-25 11:08 AM Runninbay - 2017-05-25 9:28 AM GoMistyGo - 2017-05-25 9:13 AM I have an MBA and alsways had a bit of an issue that it was not specialized enough - I knew a bit of everything but wasn't really good at anything.... If I would do this again, I would be more tageted.
That being said, I fell into a career within the market intelligence for pharma/biotech/device companies field (most don't know this exists). What we do is produce information for said companies to make better business decisions. A health informatics degree may come in handy on the analyst side of this - I'm in sales. Thank you! This is what I worry about with a MBA. And I dont ever see myself in sales. Right now I have a BS in Health Administration and basically everything I see available requires a masters or 5+ years of experience. I have been toying with the idea of going back and getting a different BS altogether but I honestly just dont want to start over. So I think I'll just get a masters, which will hopefully only take another 2 years. I have a decent job in the meantime to hold me over. I am drawn to health informatics because if I were to go back, it would be IT and this is essentially IT in healthcare.
I didn't see myself in sales either when I got the MBA... I am happy with what I am doing though. I get to work from home an make a decenet living to afford our expensive passion.....
I do however have a massive sales target over my head evry single day. No break from that ever. So this can be very stressful at times.
I guess you never know until you do it. I would absolutely love to work from home so I am very jealous! lol
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| I will be done with my MBA in a couple of months, I also have a BA in healthcare administration and I found that most positions would take a MHA or an MBA so i was not too sure if I wanted to stay in the Healthcare Administration side of things so I went with the MBA and I work at a bank right now. I may not see immediate results but the previous healthcare industry I was working in made all higher level management get their Masters within two years or face demotion until they finished it and I did not want to be 10 years in the future and have to start over to start my MBA program. |
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Location: Nebraska | I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try.
Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year. |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 10:24 AM I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try. Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year.
I'm sorry, but what is nursing informatics? This did not existwhen I went to graduate school 20 yeasr ago?
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Location: Nebraska | GoMistyGo - 2017-05-26 10:56 AM brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 10:24 AM I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try. Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year. I'm sorry, but what is nursing informatics? This did not existwhen I went to graduate school 20 yeasr ago?
I think it recently became a thing to get a degree in but it's been around pretty much since healthcare started using computers. With nursing Informatics you can do a lot. The gal I shadowed worked as like a mediator in hospital meetings about charting issues and was in charge of knowing what nurses were responsible for. She also went through suggestions about how to improve charting and workflows from nurses in the hospital and brought them back to IT. For example, they now added a bar in our charting system for date of last bowel movement so we don't have to go back through possibly days of charting to find it. She also organized system updates and any training for new systems. One of my friend's mom does it and she travels with some charting company and just trains people how to use it. I think this field is going to continue to grow as health systems start using more technology. |
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Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 5:07 PM GoMistyGo - 2017-05-26 10:56 AM brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 10:24 AM I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try. Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year. I'm sorry, but what is nursing informatics? This did not existwhen I went to graduate school 20 yeasr ago?
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Location: Nebraska | GoMistyGo - 2017-05-26 5:56 PM brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 5:07 PM GoMistyGo - 2017-05-26 10:56 AM brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 10:24 AM I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try. Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year. I'm sorry, but what is nursing informatics? This did not existwhen I went to graduate school 20 yeasr ago?
We'll see! I'm only on my 4th class and will start precepting in the fall! |
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | brlracerchick - 2017-05-26 11:24 AM I am currently working on my Masters in Nursing Informatics. I have my BSN but my work is offering a program where they will pay your tuition if you work there for 5 years after you graduate. It can be any position pretty much. I'm single and don't have kids so figured I better just knock it out now. I'm sure I won't want to do bedside nursing forever and who can beat a free degree? My choices were administration, education and informatics. I like computers so figured I'd give this a try. Informatics is such a hard thing to ask about because it's so new. I shadowed a nurse informaticist that was basically in charge of the whole nursing side. She had meetings to attend but could work from home if needed. She made over 100k a year. Thank you for your reply! I was really hoping to do something similar - get in with a company that would pay for me to get a masters but I havent been so lucky. When I was choosing a degree I struggled between IT and healthcare admin. So this really brings them both together for me. I just hope and pray it takes off like they predict it will in the future. When I look up jobs they arent as abundant as I would like. But I understand its new.
It's kind of like choosing between a promising up and coming stallion or sticking with the proven one. The new one could be the next big thing or be a total dud. LOL decisions.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | In my opinion we have too many people with MBAs in healthcare.
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Bear - 2017-06-20 3:36 PM In my opinion we have too many people with MBAs in healthcare.
Yep - and having someone who will redo your charts and how you chart who has no nursing experience is why lots of peeps are leaving. They have degrees but no practical experience on the floor. Admins, admins, admins. |
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | Bear - 2017-06-20 3:36 PM In my opinion we have too many people with MBAs in healthcare.
I also tend to agree. I dont think business majors without a RN license should be on the floor at all. My boyfriend is a RN so I understand how annoying that can be.
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| I have an MBA. I don't use it and struggled to find employment, but I also live in a small town. I don't regret getting it, however. I hope to use it someday. |
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 Three in a Bikini
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| I recently completed my MS in Food Safety and like someone said above me... it helps to specialize.
I have had no problems getting work in my field and I have no concerns that "food" will be going anywhere anytime soon.
The company I worked for also paid for my schooling; HOWEVER, most businesses will have you sign a contract agreeing to work for them XXX amount of time after graduating.
I saved all of that money and when I did complete my masters I was offered a promotion within a different industry. Since I had saved the cash I could high-tail it out of there and was able to repay them in full with no problems.
ANYWHO I would just keep those two items in mind when you are digging into this option. |
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