Be a Better Clinical Informaticist: 3 Tips to Look Awesome at Work in Just 2 Minutes

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1. Be Proactive

Improve an existing process. Get rid of unnecessary steps, automize when possible, and understand the "why" of the process.
Think and plan ahead for possible problems and solutions. How about creating a data breach response plan, a process flowchart, or something else your organization needs but it seems no one has gotten around to yet.
Prioritize tasks, then get rid of unnecessary ones to free up time for longer-term planning (David Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is the best resource for this kind of thing)
Teach yourself something new in the field. If you usually analyze data with R, maybe play around with Hadoop. If you look all day at clinical workflows, maybe learn a little bit more about the IT workflows.

Part two of this advice:

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Every morning plan out your day and come up with two tasks for the day. Two tasks. That's it. You can do that, right?

Plan one task or activity for the day that will help move you towards a 1 week to 1 month out goal
Plan one task or activity to complete that will help move you towards a goal that is a year out from now
Execute on those tasks
At the end of the day, write down one good thing that happened during that day and one thing you could have done better
Keep a running list and as time progresses, look back on your accomplishments to see just how far you've come