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Type: Tribal Salary Range: $72,000 to $112,500 / Per Year Open Period: 12/8/2023 to 9/29/2024 Summary: LOCATION AND LIFESTYLE: • Live and work on the beautiful Navajo Reservation, near national parks and forests, canyon country, ski area a day trip away • The unique community of Tuba City offers a culturally rich environment and a rewarding career in an underserved area • Easy drive to Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, Snowbowl ski area, Las Vegas • Easy access to hiking, biking, fishing, skiing • Excellent work/life balance • Very close, collaborative professional staff The unique community of Tuba City offers a culturally rich environment. The Native American tribes located and served here are the Navajo, Hopi, and Southern Paiute. This mixture along with Anglo, Hispanic, and African American employees of the hospital and school systems make a pleasantly diverse community.
The primary focus of the Clinical Informatics Nurse (CIN) is to provide the guidance, knowledge and leadership to address inter-professional workflow needs. The CIN provides expertise in the planning, design, development, training, implementation, communication, maintenance, and evaluation of new or existing functionality related to clinical and business information systems. Working under the direction of the Director of Clinical Informatics, integrates nursing/clinical science, computer science, information science to manage and communicated data, information, knowledge and wisdom in clinical practice. Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to processes, policies, and information systems. Ensures data/information is current with regulatory agency and best practice standards. Coordinates the collection and reporting of metrics defining benefits realization associate with the clinical information systems. Serves as an internal consultant to all departments to identify and achieve department and project goals. Provides direct contact with vendor to ensure customer needs are met. The CIN will support consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all roles and settings to achieve successful implementation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system at TCRHCC. Duties: 1. Incorporates theories, principles, and concepts from appropriate sciences into informatics practice. Systematically determines the social, legal and ethical impact of informatics solutions within healthcare. 2. Manages the communication needs regarding the clinical applications between Information Technology staff, the Clinical Informatics Management team and clinical users. 3. Assess implications on nursing operations and processes of patient care delivery when assisting in resolution of departmental issues. 4. Assists in the development, implementation and/or evaluation of health information technology applications to assist clinical staff with data management. Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data while maintaining patient safety and confidentiality. 5. Collaborates with clinicians and team members, develops strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating or modifying information technology applied to clinical practice, administration, education, or research. 6. Coordinates collection and reporting of metrics defining benefits realization and return on investment associated with Clinical Information Systems in conjunction with Clinical effectiveness. 7. Develops, prioritizes and determines core clinical decision-support systems by working with end-users to develop system programming requirements while understanding system capabilities and limitations. 8. Incorporates principles and methods of recognized methodologies, such as structured system analysis, into problem or issue identification. Makes recommendations related to issues and implements solutions. 9. Participates in unit, functional, and integrated system testing of software to ensure that the design objectives are met. Performs testing and documentation of software systems as needed. Develops test plans for new systems, as well as system upgrades. 10. Collaborates with Training Specialist(s) to prepare documentation designed to facilitate the proper use and understanding of the system by end users. Educates staff and management to effectively use information systems. 11. Assists with the design of clinical workflows for clinicians that will improve efficiency and incorporate quality initiatives. Reviews, revises documents, and maintains workflows for assigned departments. 12. Adheres to organization change control process to introduce changes to production functionality. 13. Assists or directs with interdepartmental collaboration/communication when needed to assist end users to resolve/enhance their experience with the electronic health systems utilized for complete patient care. 14. Completes all electronic health record entries accurately and timely pertinent to patient care role. 15. Participates in departmental workflow and or testing teams as related to electronic health record or other project initiatives. 16. Ensure Proper PPE is used at all times while on duty. Face surgical mask is to be worn in all hospital areas. Proper handwashing is required. If water is not available use hand sanitizer. Social distancing will be practiced by department. 17. Proper PPE is used inside assigned Clinics or Units. NIOSH- approved N95 Masks filtering face piece respirator or higher, if available, this includes eye or face shields, gloves, and isolation gowns. 18. Complete all donning and doffing tasks in a safe acceptable method and discard of used PPE accordingly. Complete provided training. 19. Performs other similar or related duties as required or directed by immediate leadership. Qualifications: Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (RN-BSN) from an NBCSN, ABSNC or ANCC credentialed program. Certification: A valid, current, full and unrestricted Professional Nursing License to practice nursing in any state of the United States of America, The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. Experience: • Minimum of three (3) years recent acute care (inpatient care) nursing clinical experience within a healthcare institution of similar size and complexity, or larger. • Preference for individual with additional experience working in ambulatory care setting in a healthcare institution of similar size and complexity, or larger. • One (1) year EHR implementation experience (super user, trainer, or implementation project team member), preferably Allscripts. • Has experience with developing clinical Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR). Systems include, but not limited Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Meditech, etc. • Experience with inpatient and ancillary systems and clinical workflows including Laboratory, PACS/Radiology, Pharmacy, Obstetrics, Document Management (OnBase), etc. Work Type: Permanent, Full Announcement #: 2023-1221 Who May Apply? 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