I'm at the Department of Physiological Nursing full time now, under a professor whose name is homonymous with Dr. Who. My main responsibilities include data science (data acquisition, data analysis, data interpretation, database management), project management (running operations for our SuperAlarm project at superalarm4patients.com), and research (my own research project- integrating medications into our SuperAlarm algorithm).
It's very stimulating being here full time as it is fully collaborative within this lab. The School of Nursing and the School of Medicine seem to have very different cultures. Where SON is much more team-oriented, collaborative, and social, SOM seems much more standalone and consists of little islands of research. SOM is still collaborative, but not as intensively as it is where I currently work. In physiological nursing, everyone gets a taste of everyone else's projects and, while being serious about patient care and our expertise, we always try to cultivate teamwork in both social and professional ways.
I really liked my job at Ophthalmology and had the opportunity to travel to Europe thanks to Dr. Damato. The most exciting part about that job was being a part of a technological movement towards patient-centered care. We worked to bring patient-reported outcomes to Ocular Oncology, made headway in creating a database for clinical outcomes in ocular oncology, and integrated that database into our existing EMR (Epic). There are still avenues to return if I want to stick to a career in health IT.
While health IT will always be essential knowledge, a long career in it is not my "Big Dream."
Luckily, one thing I'm starting to love about UCSF (or at least the group I'm with) is that you're allowed to dream and you can make it happen. I'm working my way up to it
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