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...
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