title: One nurse's transfer to hospital information services.
abstract: This first article of a series details a personal account of a career change within the nursing profession. Through her own reflections and analysis, the evolution of a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist into an information services nurse liaison is traced and detailed from its beginning. The motivation for and difficulties in seeking such a drastic change are explored. Readers are invited to share the experiences of a nurse who takes a risk and ventures into the complex and completely different world of data processing while trying to maintain her identity as a nurse.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Pinsky
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003201:Computers; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D000078329:Workforce