Nurse Informaticist

FLSA STATUS
Exempt

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION
  • Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
  • Master’s degree in Nursing, Business Administration or Healthcare Administration

EXPERIENCE
  • Six years experience in nursing or related healthcare experience
  • Two years experience in informatics or IT systems management and implementation preferred

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
  • RN - Registered Nurse - Texas State Licensure - Texas Board of Nursing_PSV Compact Licensure – Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days (if establishing Texas residency) and
  • Epic proficiency or certification in at least one Epic clinical module or in clinical informatics within 1 year
Preferred
  • NI-BC - Informatics Nurse (ANCC) and
  • CPHIMS - Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
  • Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
  • Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
  • Demonstrates outstanding relationship building skills
  • Strong knowledge of workflows within the system
  • Ability to facilitate just in time training for end users
  • Demonstrated program management skills and advanced change management methodologies
  • Understanding of current IT environment to support appropriate system selections and system wide functionalities
  • Ability to demonstrate and embrace creativity and innovation
  • Ability to collaborate and work successfully with all levels of the organization to gain buy-in and support for program success
  • Ability to think strategically and execute strategic programs that drive business success.


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Serves as liaison between IT and hospital leadership to facilitate system enhancement decisions through the governance process for impacted groups.
  • Leads Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and super users’ engagement in design, usability, and system testing.
  • Coordinates and/or provides direct support to clinicians for EHR and other clinical systems and technology changes, implementations, or downtimes.
  • Advises Senior Leadership on the role and function of information management in operations and on information systems and technology trends.
  • Participates in hospital-wide and system-wide committees as a designee of the Chief Nursing Informatics Executive to impact technology decisions that improve organizational processes, performance, and outcomes.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Assesses opportunities for technology improvements through collaboration with frontline clinicians to understand workflows and review of data to accurately define the problem, develop solutions to defined outcomes.
  • Develops and implements communication strategies throughout the organization/system to ensure accurate information regarding key technology initiatives: goals, objectives, purpose, improvement strategies, status, and outcomes.
  • Facilitates, plans, and directs the development, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of new applications, enhancement to existing applications, or technologies to ensure clinical/nursing goals are achieved.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Supports development and adoption of standards for evidence-based knowledge practice and collaborates with educators to create education or competencies as appropriate.
  • Ensures clinical systems design compliance with regulatory and certification program requirements in collaboration with quality and regulatory experts.
  • Leads in the development and execution of clinical integration and improvement strategies for value-added patient outcomes, enhance efficiencies and reduced variation in care.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Collaborates with customers in the creation of business cases for new technologies, including cost/benefit analysis for customer base and system selection efforts and to plan for budget considerations related to technology.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Analyzes data, industry trends, and best practices for identification of improvement opportunities and innovative approaches that drive achievement of organizational strategic initiatives and goals.
  • Takes responsibility for own professional development. Completes the My Development Plan (MDP).


SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
    WORK ATTIRE
    • Uniform: No
    • Scrubs: No
    • Business professional: Yes
    • Other (department approved): No

    ON-CALL*
    *Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
    • On Call* Yes

    TRAVEL**
    **Travel specifications may vary by department**
    • May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
    • May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes
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